GRT Yamaha has announced that M♛arvin Fritz will join the team at this weekend's WorldSBK Cremona Round in place of Dominique Aegerter, who continues to recover from injury.

In the week leading up to th🉐e French Round, which took place just over a ꦯweek ago, Aegerter was injured in a crash while training on a motocross bike.

Alessandr𒐪o🌺 Delbianco replaced the Swiss rider at Magny-Cours, and finished a respectable 10th in the sodden Race 1.

With Aegerter still recovering from the injuries he sustained before France, which included mutliple rib fractures and damage to his right shoulder, Yamaha has this time called on Marvin Fritz to replace the ♋GRT Yamaha rider♎.

“First of all, ♑I would like to wish Dominique a speedy recovery," Fritz said on tဣhe announcement of his WorldSBK replacement appearance at Cremona this weekend. "I cannot wait to be in Cremona, to ride for the GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team and the Yamaha R1 in the WorldSBK is like a dream for me."

Fritz, who riᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚdes for the Yamaha's factory YART team in the Endurance World Championship (in which YART, with Fritz, finished second overall in the 2024 championship last weekend after securing third place in the Bol d'Or, which cam💜e despite suffering a tyre failure in the first hour), is not entirely new to WorldSBK, but it's been since the end of 2022 that he's appeared in the class.

"I’ll have to adapt to a lot of things as since my last wild card in Portimao (2022) things have changed, but I’ll try to enjoy the weekend and do my best, having no pressure. I’m looking 🍌forward to meet all the team, I’m confident it’ll be a nice experience.”

Fritz✅ will 🐎join Remy Gardner in the GRT team this weekend, and possibly at the next round in Aragon, too, which itself is scheduled only one week after the Cremona Round.

“Firstly, I would like to welcome Marvin in our team, wishing again a speedy and full recovery to Domi," Gardner said on t𒈔he announcement of Fritz as his stand-in teaꦓmmate at Cremona.

"I think Cremona could be an interesting round. It’s a new venue and almost everyone w𒐪ill race for the first time here, so anything could happen.🍰 In May we enjoyed a very positive test session there, so I’m looking forward to hit the track as I’m confident we could enjoy a strong weekend in Italy.”