Franco Morbidelli (Pertamina Enduro VR46, GP24) lives a remarkable 2025 season, after a year 2024 difficult marked by a concussion. Fourth in the championship with 67 points, behind Alex Marquez (140), Marc Marquez (139), and Pecco Bagnaia (120), the Italian, first pilot of the VR46 Academy, shines with two podiums (Argentina, Qatar). We decipher his return before Le Mans (May 9-11).
Long overshadowed by the setbacks of Yamaha and injuries, Franco Morbidelli made a spectacular return to the forendsride in 2025. The pilot of the VR46 Ducatifourth to general classification After five races, proves that he is back to the top. Two podiums, in Argentine and at Qatarhave already marked the spirits, ending a three -year scarcity.
« I saw the rebirth of my career in MotoGP “He confides today on speedweek, relieved, but lucid. “” We must be aware of everything we have gone through: These obstacles are useful. »
This return was not guaranteed. Her Accident in Portimao in January 2024 he earned him a concussion heavy with consequences. Morbidelli Say without filter: ” If it’s your head, it’s completely different. I couldn’t talk, remember things, think clearly … I was very afraid. »
Thanks to those around him and hard work, he found his means in six weeks. His team leader Uccio Salucciwho knew him at 12, admits having doubted: ” After two months, I looked her in the eyes and I said to myself: This is not the real morbidelli. But he never gave up. »
Franco Morbidelli: ” I like this sport, and people crazy enough to live it thoroughly »
Morbidelli is unique in the paddock: cold and incisive on track, deep and scholar outside. “” He wants everything 100 %, It is not easy to convince “Smiles Salucci. « But at home, He’s a fantastic guy. You can talk about everything with him. »
His dreamy side does not prevent him from being a fierce fighter: ” The duel on the track is one of my favorite things. Everyone says it’s aggressive, but I am having fun “He says, even evoking the famous altercation with Aleix Espargaró. It was at Qatar 2023an incident that led Catalan to the angry temperament to strike the Italian-Brazilian pilot then on Yamaha On the helmet …
HAS 30 ansin his eighth season in MotoGP, Franco Morbidelli dispute a decisive campaign on the GP24 handlebars, the best Ducati of the moment. After almost losing everything, he proves that he still deserves his place among the best.
« I would like to believe that I had these opportunities mainly thanks to my work on the slopes. I like this sport, and people crazy enough to live it thoroughly. » Morbidellibetween inner serenity and burning ambition, more than surviving: it comes back to win.
