Gresini is by no means an unfamiliar name in the MotoGP arena. Italian driver Forsto, the 1985 and 1987 GP125 overall champions, founded the Gresini team in 1997, which competed in 851 GP races at all levels over the next 25 years, took the podium 186 times, won 61 races, won the annual championship five times, and finished runners-up of the year five times. From 2015 to 2021, Gresini team provided team operation support to Apulia and appeared in the top events as a supporting role, hence the team's name Team Aprilia Gresini. With Apulia racing independently as the factory team in 2022, The Gresini team has also returned to the top race of MotoGP as an independent team. Sadly, legendary driver Forstow Gresini tragically passed away in 2021 due to COVID-19, and the team has since been brought to power by his widow.
In the 2022 season, the Gresini MotoGP team will bid farewell to Apulia racing and change into Ducati. As is customary for satellite teams, Gresini did not receive the Ducati Company's latest car, the GP22, but instead used last season's older Desmosedici GP21. The livery of the racing car is handled by Big Riders such as Boss Luo and Drudy Drudi, the designer of the AGV helmet, and friends wearing AGV can see if there is a line on your helmet that says Drudi Performance. Drudy's design was designed to match the team's new slogan, "The Next Beast", which emphasized visual impact, so the main colors of the car were panton 2122C light blue, which symbolized the sky, air and breath, and red, which symbolized courage, passion and speed.
In terms of drivers, gresini played for MotoGP this year by two Italian drivers who have been trained by Gresini for a long time, Inha Bastanini and Fabio di Jane Antonio. The two drivers will drive this year's new car for the first time at a Sepang track test at the end of January.
Driver 23 Bastonini was born in Italy in 1997, won the Red Bull Rookie Cup in 2013 and his outstanding performance in the Italian home race allowed him to be photographed by Gresini' team, first representing Gresini in Moto3 in 2014, with the best result being the runner-up of the year in 2016, the Moto2 class in 2019, the Moto2 championship in 2020, and the following year promoted to MotoGP's satellite team Aventia for Ducati Esponsorama Team, ranked 11th annually. He is driving the old GP20 race car in Season 21, and this year's GP21, while not the latest, is also a new car for him to be familiar with.
No. 49 driver Jane Antonio was born in Italy in 1998, began to compete in Moto3 in 2015, was favored by Gresini team that year, officially joined Gresini the following year, won the runner-up of Moto3 in 2018, was promoted to Moto2, finished 7th in Moto2 in 2021, and began to participate in MotoGP level races as a newcomer in 2022. LPOJ-0HI8J, KHG7NUJB He used to use number 21 in Moto2 in the past, but this year he changed to number 49 due to a conflict with the Mobydelli number in the GP group.
The two drivers have obviously not been at their peak for a year, and it is hoped that they will adapt to the new car as soon as possible and help Gresini team achieve another brilliant record.