MotoGP 2024. Let’s try to imagine and show you the special liveries for Silverstone [GALLERY] – MotoGP

There are many bikes from which the eleven MotoGP teams could draw inspiration. Historic brands such as Honda and Yamaha have numerous models of absolute reference in their archives, even Ducati and Aprilia now have a good history behind them. What will KTM do, recently on the world championship tracks? Let’s try to hypothesize which bikes will inspire the liveries we will see at Silverstone

June 14, 2024

Ducati internal team.

Qhey there choice is a must: how can you not celebrate the first world riders’ title in Ducati history, the one obtained with Casey Stoner in 2007 on Filippo Preziosi’s Desmosedici? In reality, the history of Borgo Panigale is much longer, because Ducati had participated sporadically in the world championship since the 1950s. But there in 2007 was the triumph. And in the premier class.

Pramac

TOEven though it wasn’t part of the drivers’ championship calendar, the 200 Miles of Imola of 1972 was adjacent to that world, to those pilots and those technicians. The two silver arrows that dominated the Santerno with Paul Smart and Bruno Spaggiari marked an era and relaunched Ducati in racing and on the supersport market. The Campinoti team could, why not, tell that story.

Gresini Racing

Un private team like that of Nadia Padovani, so linked to passion and territory, can only be inspired by its founder. Especially if we talk about history. The unforgettable Fausto Gresini won his two world titles in the 125 class in 1985 and 1987 with the Garellis, which after all were Italian bikes… like the Ducati.

VR46

PFor the same reasons as above, the historical reminder of the team can only be tied to its owner, Valentino Rossi, which with nine titles in twenty-six world seasons has left an indelible mark. Yes, but which of the Doctor’s motorbikes should we take as a model? Well, here the choice is difficult, but the most iconic is probably that of the first title, the 125 from 1997. Even if it’s not a Ducati, but an Aprilia…

Aprilia internal team

Lon the Corsair’s motorbike: this could appropriately be the Aprilia to take inspiration from in view of Silverstone, perhaps the first of the three consecutive titles won in the 250 by Max Biaggi exactly thirty years ago. It wasn’t the first world title for Noale, who had already won first in the trial and then in the 125, but it was certainly the most sensational and it was also the first act of an extraordinary adventure signed by Aprilia in the GPs.

Aprilia Trackhouse

THEThe team that has just arrived in MotoGP is American, a land of great riders in the 500 class. So let’s try to dream, perhaps with a special livery from a manufacturer that is no longer in MotoGP…

KTM internal team

Sand we need to talk about history, in the case of the Austrian brand – in world speed racing for just over twenty years – it is almost mandatory to leave the asphalt track and to cross the border into offroad. Even if they are not so relevant, KTM could celebrate its first international successes, such as those achieved in the 1956 Six Days, with two gold medals in the 125 class.

Tech3

Lhe team of Poncharal and Coulon would have the opportunity to get back on track the pride of French motorcycling, which in the Seventies and Eighties made its name with many riders in all classes of the world championship. The list of transalpine riders of that extraordinary era would be long, but the only one who was capable of winning a GP in the premier class was Christian Sarronin 1985. On the famous Yamaha Sonauto blue.

Honda HRC

Nono doubt: in our opinion the Silverstone celebration can only have one name for Honda, that of British legend Mike Hailwood. Mike won GPs with Honda in all classes, from 125 to 250, from 350 to 500, enhancing the technology of the first Japanese manufacturer. The livery of the fabulous multi-cylinder ones was well defined: silver hull and red tank.

LCR

Salong the same lines, the Honda satellite team could dedicate itself to celebrating other Hondas and others extraordinary featslike the double of Freddie Spencer from the 1985 season.

That year Fast Freddie he brought the twin-cylinder 250 and the four-cylinder 500 to the title, very different bikes but in the same blue and white livery of the generous sponsor of the time. It was the last double with great media impact.

Yamaha

TOhere too, there should be no doubts. In the long history of the world championship, the first premier class drivers’ title won by Japanese manufacturers only came in 1975. With Giacomo Agostini riding the beautiful two-stroke Yamaha 500. The house of the three tuning forks achieved the goal that Honda itself had missed, and these are satisfactions that remain over time…