Althea Racing announces the return of Niccolò Canepa to its ranks, riding the Ducati Panigale R.

Niccolò Canepa and Team Althea have reached an agreement that will see them work together for the remainder of the 2015 eni FIM Superbike World Championship after the premature departure of Spanish rider Nico Terol. The rider and Team Althea share great memories of the 2014 season, in which they concluded in second position in the EVO category of the world championship.

Team Althea trusts the Genoan rider to achieve the kind of results that have always characterized the Italian squad in the category for production-derived bikes.

The arrival of a rider as motivated and experienced as Niccolò Canepa will give the whole team a new stimulus and will of course please all of Team Althea’s many fans.

Genesio Bevilacqua: “I’m very happy to welcome Niccolò to the Althea family, one he already knows and with whom he already shared significant success in 2014. His motivation, athletic freshness and great experience can surely make the difference and allow us to obtain important results. Although we have less than half the championship left to run, we want to do our very best and make the most of the great potential that the Ducati Panigale R has already shown in the field.”

Niccolò Canepa: “I’m very pleased to return to the great family that is Althea. After last year’s fantastic season in which we finished second in the EVO world championship, being able to get back on Team Althea’s Ducati and return to my team gives me great motivation. The bike has improved a lot from that of last year and so I’m sure that after some laps to get back into things I’ll be able to be competitive right away. I thank Genesio for giving me this opportunity and I’m sure that he and the fans will not be disappointed. I’ll see you at Misano.”