That will finally come true in 2024, wheꦦn Sam switches from Moto2 to join Alex on the World Superbike grid, riding for a new Marc VDS Ducati team.

The pair have not previously competed head-to-head as professional ♍riders, with the last time they regularly shared a grid thought to be in the 2008 European Superstock 600 series.

Sam later used the 2010 British Superspo𝕴rt title as a springboard to World Supersport (champion in 2013) and then on to Moto2 and MotoGP. Meanwhile, Alex’s path to WorldSBK came via the British Superbike class, which he won in 2013.

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Alex, who has gone on to take two wins and 34 podiums in WorldS🌌BK, will remain at the Kawasaki Racing Team next ♑season.

“I’m excited for him and the team! We’re really close but to have another good team in the WorldSBK Championship is good and maybe in the future, it might even be two riders,” Al𒁏eix said.

“For such a good team in🐎 Moto2 to arrive here is only going to make the Championship stronger. Marc van ▨der Straten is a fantastic guy and his personality will be great.

“On the other side, about my brother, it’s fantastic! We’ve been dreaming for a long, long time since we were kids, to race mo🌳torbikes and maybe race together one day. On a personal note, away from the track, I am so, so happy.

“♓With our current schedules, w💟e spend a lot of time apart but to race together, travel together, it’s going to be fantastic.

“The [Marc V🍌DS] team have been World Champions and Sam has won a Grand Prix just two months ago, so the level he is riding at is fantastic so we can expect him, the bike and the team to be strong.”

Sam - who battled for the Moto2 title against future MotoGP stars Enea Bastianini, Luca Marini, Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin until the final round of 2020 - has won ten races in the intermediate class, the last seven of them with Marc VDS. He also spent the 2017 season in Mot🅰oGP wit🧸h Aprilia.