The Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team revealed the 2025 colors of Fabio Di Giannantonio and Franco Morbidelli's Ducati MotoGP during its live presentation from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Contrary to what the background of the image of the presentation video might suggest by going from fluorescent yellow to red, the emblematic color of Valentino Rossi has been well preserved, simply decorated with silver nets tracing the number 46 on the nose of the fairing, the sun on the right side and the moon on its left counterpart.
Will this create additional pressure for
Fabio Di Giannantonio and Franco Morbidellias “Uccio” said laughingly during the presentation? No one knows, but one thing is certain, this 2025 livery pleases its pilots, just as it undoubtedly must satisfy the Doctor's ego…
The only real curiosity of this presentation is that the two machines seem identical, as does their fairing, while we are supposed to have a Ducati Desmosedici GP 25 for Fabio Di Giannantonio and a Ducati Desmosedici GP 24 for
Franco Morbidelli. However, neither of them sports the 2024 fairing used by the official drivers of Borgo Panigale and their colleagues from Pramac Racing last season, recognizable by its downwash ducts integrated into its sides, behind the large visible downwash ducts… and elsewhere present on the official GP 25 during the presentation at Madonna di Campiglio.
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The presence of the two VR46 team motorcycles in Jakarta, a few days before the start of testing at Sepang, makes it unlikely that they are just show bikes. We will therefore simply deduce that we were presented with 2023 fairings today, while waiting for those which will be used in Malaysia from February 5 to 7…
Ducati VR46 2025
