Financial insecurity for Scott Redding’s WorldSBK team?

The MGM Bonovo Ducati team that runs Scott Redding is report♑edly facing financial diff🔯iculties.

Scott Redding, 2025 Czech WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Scott Redding, 2025 Czech WorldSBK. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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The MGM Bonovo Ducati team is not a new outfit to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:WorldSBK by 2025, but its changes compared to previous seasons have seen it downsize to one bike, ridden by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Scott Redding, and even that could fail to make the𒆙 end of the season.

Until the end of last season, the MGM team ran BMW machinery in close collꦑaboration with the Bavaria🥂n factory.

However, when Bonovo’s Jurgen Roder announced that he would retire from team ownership at the end of last year, the team ownership was taken on by Michael Galinski (MGM stands for ‘M🦋ichael 🍨Galinski Motorsport’), with Bonovo staying on as a sponsor.

There were good early signs for the new outfit, Redding, and the team’s new machinery from Ducati, as the British rider was able to finish in the top൲-six in all three races at the Australian Round in February.

But, since then, Reddi𒉰ng has only been in the top-six once (Assen Superpole Race), and has only two other top-10s in th▨at time.

Now, according to Speedweek🌟, the MGM team could be off the grid already at the Emilia-Romagna Round at Misano in June as a result of financial difficulties.

The German publication reports that MGM’s 2025 season has been funded by a combination of ♑the team’s own funding from its owner, Michael Galinski; sponsorship from Bonovo, who were supposed to cover two-thirds of the budget for this season; and by Redding himself, who has🍰 reportedly already provided 72 per cent of his financial obligation for the season despite only five of 12 rounds having been run in 2025.

Speedweek reports thꦰat financial difficulties began to be encountered by MGM in April, and that Galinski spoke with WorldSBK Executive Director Grꦿegorio Lavilla in Assen to discuss the consequences of a possible withdrawal from the championship.

Additionally, t💦he German team reportedly has debts wi♛th Ducati of around €280,000 (£235,000), and Speedweek says that Ducati has extended the deadline for this by 60 days.

Further, it says that around €800﷽,000 (£670,000) would be needed to save the team for this season, should an external buyer wish to take control of it – a sponsor to fill MGM’s curr♛ent financial hole having not been found.

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