Danilo Petrucci and Yari Montella link up in the Barni Spark Ducati team for the 2025 WorldSBK season, which will be a year of f💎irsts for both.

For Petrucci, who will take on his thir💟d season in WorldSBK next year, 2025 will be the first season he’s had a teammate in the Superbike class.

“I’m quite happy because having another rider, especially a fast one like Yari [Montella], in the garage is always a good thing,” Petrucci told WorldSBK.com, “especial🐼ly because Yari is quite young and motivated.

“So, he can help me to k♏eep the focus. For sure, I don’t know the area where we can improve on each other, ๊but for sure he has a lot of speed and I can learn something immediately from him.”

On the other hand, Montella, who finished third in the 2024 Supersport World C♔hampionship with Barni, the chance to make his debut WorldSBK season with the Barni team and with a rider with the experience of Petruccཧi as teammate offers a clear opportunity to learn and develop - but that doesn't mean he doesn't see Petrucci as his rival.

“I hope that he could give me some ‘tricks’ of this category,” M𓂃ontella told WorldSBK.com.

“But, really, I don’t know, because in these two years🐷 we were teammates, more or less, [but] we were also in two different categories, so we never worked with each other.

“For sure, I am a💟lways his rival and he is always my rival, but at the end I expect a great ambience in the team, i💝n the box, because we are two great guys, I think.

“Also, in the team there 🍌is a great ไatmosphere that I think we don’t need to break.”