Il Team Gresini is reportedly in talks to have a new top-level owner, the seven-time F1 world champion, Lewis Hamilton. The news, reported by The Raceis that Hamilton has reportedly expressed interest in acquiring the Ducati MotoGP satellite team from its current owner, Nadia Padovani, wife of the late Fausto Gresini, founder of the team. Scuderia, which, when contacted about the matter, denied the news. Second The Racehowever, emissaries of Hamilton’s entourage were reportedly present at Assen over the past race weekend and the potential acquisition would fit perfectly with the other acquisition operation, that of MotoGP by Liberty Media, which manages F1, an operation still awaiting approval from competition regulators. Having the Circus’s most successful rider, a collector of motorcycles and a great fan of the premier class of two-wheelers, actively involved in the series, would be considered a doubly advantageous operation.
historic team
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Team Gresini is one of the most important teams in MotoGP, with a history that dates back to the mid-90s and has seen it win world titles in the lower classes with Daijiro Kato, Toni Elias and Jorge Martin and fight for the title and victories in the premier class with Sete Gibernau, Marco Melandri and the late Marco Simoncelli. In more recent times, with the move to Ducati, the team has strengthened by winning races and Sprints with Enea Bastianini, Fabio Di Giannantonio and Alex Marquez. This year, the media consecration with the hiring of eight-time world champion Marc Marquez, who will move to the official Ducati next year.
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passionate
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Hamilton is a big fan of motorcycles, especially his collaboration with MV Agusta, which produced limited edition bikes for the English champion that he himself helped design. In the past, Lewis has also had the opportunity to test a MotoGP bike on the track, exchanging vehicles in Valencia in 2019 with Valentino Rossi. On that occasion, he tried the Yamaha M1 of the Pesaro native who instead rode Lewis’ Mercedes W08 F1. “I’ve always loved motorcycles,” Hamilton said at the time. “When I was younger, I wanted to race on a motorcycle, not a car, but my father didn’t let me: he said they were too dangerous.” Hamilton is no stranger to “participations” in other sports, having for example managed Team X44, which until this season competed in the Extreme E electric SUV series. Hamilton is also part of the consortium that took over the Denver Broncos American football team in 2022.
