Michele Pirro to replace Loris Baz in Barcelona

Michele Pirro will replace injured Loris Baz in the Avintia Racing team at the Grand Prix of Catalunya. The Italian rider is the official test riders for Ducati since 2013, but he has been always in touch with the competition doing several wild card appearances and some other races replacing injured rider in the past few years both MotoGP and World Superbike. The last time out was in the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello and he finished the race in the top 10 riding a Ducati Desmosedici GP16. But in the seventh round of the MotoGP World Championship, scheduled for the 3rd to the 5th of June at Circuit Barcelona-Catalunya, Pirro will race the Avintia Racing GP14.2, one bike that he also knows really well.

AGUSTÍN ESCOBAR (AVINTIA RACING TEAM MANAGER)

“First of all I want to wish a speedy recovery to Loris. We are looking forward to see him back in our garage, because is part of our family and we’ll be supporting him for his come back, hopefully in Assen. And I want to say big thanks you to Ducati for letting us Michele Pirro to replace Loris in the next race. We couldn’t find a better rider and I think that will be very important that he rides our bike in Barcelona. He is a fast riders and he knows all the Ducati bikes. It will be interesting to work together and I’m sure that he will give some valuable information tour engineers to improve theb bike set up and the electronics.”