Category: Notices

Ducati secured the MotoGP Constructors’ World title for the third consecutive year. It’s the fourth World Title for the Borgo Panigale-based manufacturer in the premier class, clinched five races ahead of the end of the Championship.

Among the riders who have contributed to the achievement of this milestone, with the 10 victories obtained in 2022, there are certainly Pecco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini, absolute protagonists at the finish line in the Spanish GP of Aragon.

Great victory for Motor Valley driver Enea Bastianini

Call it a rematch of Misano, call it a fourth win of the season, call it whatever you want… Simply a masterpiece race that of Enea Bastianini who, with the victory, delivers the constructors’ title to Ducati and (thanks also to the fall of Quartararo) moves closer to the top of the overall standings now at minus 48 points.

“Call it a rematch of Misano, call it a fourth win of the season, call it whatever you want… Simply a masterpiece race that of Enea Bastianini who, with the victory, delivers the constructors’ title to Ducati and (thanks also to the fall of Quartararo) moves closer to the top of the overall standings now at minus 48 points”.

Pecco P2, but getting closer to the top of the world championship

Among the riders who have contributed to this achievement, with six victories in 2022, is undoubtedly Pecco Bagnaia, who finished second in the Aragon GP. Starting from pole position, the Ducati Lenovo Team rider got off to a good start, immediately taking the lead. After an initial exchange of positions with Bastianini, Pecco remained in first place until the last lap, when the fellow Ducati rider overtook him to secure the victory by just 42 thousandths. Thanks to today’s second place and following Quartararo’s crash on the first lap, Bagnaia brings his gap from the French rider to just 10 points.

“I’m thrilled with today’s result. Enea and I had a great race! I knew he would be very fast in the final laps, and when he passed me, I preferred not to make any move on him. I tried to win and waited for a safe opportunity to pass him, which in the end wasn’t there. I knew these 20 points were important, and I preferred not to risk it. Now we must stay focused and think about the next race in Japan next week.”

Last day of the second round of the ACI Racing Weekend season at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo and Dino Ferrari. Nine races are scheduled for the seven categories on the track: Italian Gran Turismo Sprint Championship, TCR Italy, Italian Sport Prototypes Championship, Mini Challenge, BMW M2 CS Racing Cup Italy, Euro Formula Open Championship and Smart EQ Fortwo e-Cup.

Results for each category

Italian Gran Turismo Sprint Championship
Spectacular finale of race 2 of the Italian Gran Turismo Sprint Championship. With a great comeback, which allowed them to recover almost 10″, Matteo Cressoni – Kikko Galbiati (Mercedes AMG) took the victory thanks to a decisive attack by Galbiati on the last lap against Alessandro Moncini (Honda NSX), crewed with Jacopo Guidetti. Moncini was then good at keeping his nerve and containing the last attempt of José Manuel Urcera – Daniele Di Amato (Ferrari 488), who thus climbed on the third step of the podium.

TCR Italy
Race 2 of TCR Italy decided in the last three laps due to entry of the Safety Car. At the restart initial three-way duel for the victory with Matteo Poloni (Audi RS3 LMS), in the lead from the start, who, however, immediately had to succumb to the attacks first of Denis Babuin, ahead of everyone at the finish line, and then of Salvatore Tavano (Cupra Leon), second, finishing then only sixth. Third position under the checkered flag for Cesare Brusa (Hyundai i30 N).

Italian Sport Prototypes Championship
Thanks to a lightning-fast sprint at the start from the fifth row, Davide Uboldi built a mere victory in the Italian Sport Prototypes Championship. Behind him great tussle, with a penalty for Giacomo Pollini for a contact with Filippo Lazzaroni while they were fighting for second position. So on the second step of the podium went Matteo Pollini, author of a great comeback after starting from the bottom of the grid. Alessio Salvaggio’s third position was excellent.

Mini Challenge
The protagonists of race 2 of the Mini Challenge did not change, with Paolo Silvestrini, Andrea Palazzo, Giuseppe Montalbano and Roberto Gentili able to make the gap from the very first lap. The first twist on the third pass, with Silvestrini out at the Variante Gresini in an attempt to resist Montalbano’s attack. Then, in quick succession, Palazzo and Gentili were forced to retire after a contact while in battle with each other, leaving the way clear for Montalbano. Podium was completed by Ugo Bagnasco, second, and Alberto Cioffi, third.

BMW M2 CS Racing Cup Italy
Sparks immediately flew in race 2 of the BMW M2 CS Racing Cup Italy. First Marco Zanasi and then Jody Vullo were the victims, forced to retire. Thus gaining from the tussle was Luigi Ferrara, who thus easily repeated the success obtained on Saturday. Behind him, solo second place for Gustavo Sandrucci, and third for Manuel Lasagni.

Euro Formula Open Championship
Double round on Sunday for the Euro Formula Open Championship. In race 2, easy victory for Frenchman Vladislav Lomko who, once he took the lead, immediately put a reassuring lead between himself and his pursuers. A three-way duel for the remaining places on the podium, with Britain’s Frederick Lubin getting the better of Denmark’s Oliver Goethe and Italy’s Francesco Simonazzi; in race 3, domination by Britain’s Josh Mason, second place for Australia’s Christian Mansell, third for Lubin.

Smart EQ Fortwo e-Cup
5 laps per race for the Smart EQ Fortwo e-Cup. In the first, victory for Francesco Savoia ahead of Gabriele Torelli and Giuseppe De Pasquale; in the second, success for Francesco Lombardo, second position for Filippo Bencivenni, third for Lorenzo Longo.

The Grand Prix of San Marino and Riviera di Rimini, which took place this afternoon at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, ended with another thrilling victory for Pecco Bagnaia, who takes his tenth win in MotoGP and sixth this season. For the Italian rider, it was also his fourth consecutive victory this year, an achievement that puts him rightfully in the history of Ducati, being the first rider from the Bologna-based manufacturer to achieve this in MotoGP.



Starting from fifth on the grid, Bagnaia made an excellent start that allowed him to be at the front before moving into the lead after two laps, closely marked by Maverick Viñales. Towards the middle of the race, the Spaniard was overtaken by Enea Bastianini (Gresini Racing), who quickly reduced the gap to Bagnaia to cross the line just 34 thousandths behind the fellow Ducati rider. Thanks to today’s victory, Pecco climbs to second place in the overall standings, 30 points behind Quartararo.



It was an unlucky race instead for teammate Jack Miller. The Australian rider, starting from pole, had managed to hold the lead after the start, but on the second lap, he suffered a crash. Miller still managed to rejoin and finish the race in eighteenth place. After the fourteenth round of the season, Jack is sixth in the overall standings, while Ducati and the Ducati Lenovo Team maintain the lead in both the Constructors’ and Teams’ Championships.

With the closing ceremony at 20.30 yesterday, the 17th edition of Formula SAE Italy – the international educational event organised by ANFIA in partnership with SAE International and the ‘R. Paletti’ Circuit of Varano de’ Melegari and the assistance of the main sponsor, ALTEN, drew to a close. The event was attended by about 1,700 students from eighteen countries (India being the farthest). A total of sixty-four teams competed, of which fifty-four were European, with 20 Italians from fifteen different universities and ten from outside Europe.

In the Motor Valley the show of the Formula SAE Italy 2022

The podium in Class 1C (internal combustion cars) was topped by Rennstall Esslingen of UAS Esslingen, scoring high marks in all events. They won both the Design and Cost Events as well as the Endurance and Autocross in Class 1C, thanks to the use of a fan. a solution already seen in F1 in the past, and an agile car that was particularly at home in the more winding parts of the tracks. In second place was FaSTDa Racing Combustion from the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, which presented a more conventional but good car. The team took second place in Autocross and Endurance, and in third place was the Unical Reparto Corse team from the University of Calabria, with a well-balanced car that the drivers drove well.

In Class 1E (electric cars), FS Team Tallinn of Tallinn UT/UAS triumphed. They had good performances in the dynamic tests, particularly in the Endurance, where they won, and with first place in the Design Event – while second place went to BRS Motorsport of Hochschule Bonn-RheinSieg, runners-up in Endurance 1E and first place in the Autocross. Third place went to the ARUSe team from the University of Seville, with a good placing in the dynamic tests and victory in the Business Presentation Event.

In Class 3 (presentation of the car’s design only), the Firenze Race Team from the University of Florence took the top spot, followed in second place by Formula Student FEUP from the University of Porto and in third place by the AAM Driverless Racing Team of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.

In Class 1D (Driverless), the first prize went to FS Team Tallinn Driverless from Tallinn UT/UAS. In the dynamic tests, the team had a bit of bad luck and, possibly due to some mistakes, the car also went off the track, but the overall performance was good, as demonstrated particularly with first place in the trackdrive test. Here there is the potential to become a top team in the future. Second place went to UniNa Corse – Squadra Corse Federico II of Naples, the only car among the three on the podium to use a combustion engine. This choice made the driverless challenge more complicated than the electric motor and, therefore, no mean feat to receive this award. In third place, finally, was Squadra Corse Polito DRIVERLESS from the Polytechnic University of Turin, with their first venture with driverless. Despite not having completed any dynamic tests, the validity of the project, which was awarded in the static events (first place in Class 1D in the Cost Event, third in the Design Event and Business Presentation Event), bodes well for participation in future editions.