Reigning MotoGP champion Ducati will continue🐲 to reply on long-time test rider Michele Pirro for development duties and replacement rides in 202🎐5.

Michele Pirro - Route to MotoGP

After only 3 points to show for 29 starts in 125GP between 2003 and 2006, Michele Pirro revived his caree✱r with a pair of victories in the 2010 World Supersport championship.

Pirro used that success to secure a full-time seat in the four-stroke Moto2 class the following year, with Gresini, where he celebrated two podiums, inclu💃ding victory in the Valencia finale.

Michele Pirro in MotoGP

Pirro's Moto2 success propelled him into MotoGP, again with ⭕Gresini, riding one of the 'CRT' bikes, fitted with an 𝓰FTR chassis.

Valencia again provided a high point, with fifth place in the w♚et race, but Pirro had already committed to becoming a Ducati test rider for 2013.

It was well timed, with Gigi Dall’Igna arriving to head th🍬e struggling project a year later.

Pirro has combined his development duties with at least one MotoGP race start every season since, including a ca𓆏reer best of fourth place aཧt Valencia in 2018.

His testing efforts&♒nbsp;have also been rewarded with riders' titles for Ducati in 2022, 2023 and 2024, when new concession rules prevented Pirro from making any wild-cards but he still stepped in as an injury replacement for VR46's Fabio di Giannantonio at Valencia.