Yari Montella, having signed to race with the 🔥Barni Spark Ducati team in 2025, is the second rider to step up to WorldSBK fro❀m WorldSSP in the past two seasons to do so with Ducati, after Nicolo Bulega made the move in 2024.

Bulega won six races and remain𒐪ed in mathematical title contention until the final round in his rookie year, but Montella is aware of the task awaiting him 🍨in 2025.

“I will sign if it’s possible to make a season like him [Nicolo 🤡Bulega], because it’s not easy,” Montella told WorldSBK.com at the recent EICM♛A motorcycle show in Milan.

“We are talking about two different categories, two different motorbikes; I need to understand a lot of things, a lot of electronics on the bike, I need to manage in a dif🐬ferent way the tyre.

“So, for sure I have many things 😼differ▨ent from this year to the next one. I hope to understand as soon as possible, and come to fight for great results, great positions during the year.”

Montella comes to WorldSBK after fighting for the WorldSSP title in 2024 with the sam🦩e Barni team he’s stepping up with.

Ultimat🐓ely, Montella came up short after a crash at the penultimate round in⭕ Estoril, and Adrian Huertas took the title.

“We were misౠsing something at the end🎃,” Montella reflected. “We did two crashes that [took us out] of the fight for the title.”

Such mistakes are to be expected in such a hard fought title fight, Montella said: “At the end, it was a gre▨at year; they are some things that I think can happen in a year like that, with this levelജ, because we were always pushing.

“At the end, I’m so happy and proud for the work that we did, and I think it’s so🅷mething that I can understand for the next one.”