More news from Italy as Ducati has announced an all-new 250 motocross machine, the Desmo250 MX. The smaller displacement 250 will debut this weekend at the Ottobiano motocross track in Ottobiano PV, Italy for round one of the Italian Motocross Championship.
Note that this is the same path the brand chose for the Desmo450 MX. Last year they won the 2024 Italian MX1 title and raced a handful of MXGP rounds before later making a full-time debut this past weekend at the MXGP World Championship in Argentina with Jeremy Seewer and Mattia Guadagnini.
Alessandro Lupino, the brand’s lead test rider and nine-time Italian champ, will take the helm for the motocross 250 project. The Beddini Racing team is running the Ducati 250 program and will race all six rounds of the Italian Prestige MX2 Championship with Lupino. Beddini Racing won the MX2 title in 2024. Ducati also announced the production version of the Desmo450 MX will be introduced to the public on April 3rd.
The following is a press release from Ducati:
Borgo Panigale (Bologna, Italy), 6 March 2025 – This weekend, on the track of Ottobiano (PV), will see the race debut of the Ducati Desmo250 MX, the bike with which the Borgo Panigale-based manufacturer continues its structured development plan for a complete range of off-road bikes.
In fact, the Desmo250 MX represents the second step in this project, which involves the development on the most demanding race tracks of off-road motorbikes that will later be available to enthusiasts in their production versions.
After successfully taking advantage of the MX1 2024 Italian Prestige Championship for the Desmo450 MX, the Borgo Panigale factory chooses the same approach with the bike destined for the MX2 class.
Managing the Desmo250 MX on track will be the Beddini Racing team, winner of the MX2 2024 Italian title, which will field the nine-times Italian champion Alessandro Lupino in all six races of the Italian Motocross Prestige MX2 Championship.
The Desmo250 MX will therefore follow the same development path as the Desmo450 MX, the bike that won the Italian Motocross 2024 title on its debut with Lupino.
The Desmo450 MX, which takes part in the entire MXGP World Championship this year with Mattia Guadagnini and Jeremy Seewer and the Aruba.it – Ducati Factory MX Team managed by Maddii Racing, will be officially presented in its production version on 3 April with an episode of the Ducati World Première. Deliveries of the Ducati Desmo450 MX will begin in June in selected dealers throughout Europe, continuing in July in the USA and then the rest of the world.
