Scott Redding Stays With Bonovo in WorldSBK 2025

Scott Redding will stay in WorldSBK next season but he won’t do so with BMW as the newly-named MGM Bonovo team has switched to the Ducati Panigale V4 R.

Redding enjoyed nearly all of his WorldSBK success with Ducati in the past, so the switch back to the Panigale V4 R is a no-brainer on paper.

But if you were to ask the British rider if he wanted to leave BMW it seems as though the answer would have been ‘no’.

Earlier this season Redding maintained that he would like to stay aboard an M1000 RR, however, his team was very quick to look for an alternative option which led to Ducati being the winners.

Redding’s time at BMW has proved to be very tricky more often than not, but to say he can’t compete for good results going forward would be a step too far. Redding remains a big talent in the Superbike championship and switching back to Ducati should demonstrate that.

A statement from Redding read: “I have ended my collaboration with BMW at the end of the 2024 season, which I expressly regret. My team is dealing with the resulting consequences, I am focusing on the season finale.

“The course has been set for the 2025 season. I am very happy to continue racing with MGM Bonovo in World Superbike and will approach this project with great motivation.”

While the move away from BMW could look strange without context given Toprak Razgatlioglu took the German brand to its first-ever WorldSBK title win, the Panigale V4 R remains, for many people, the best overall bike on the grid.

Speaking to WorldSBK.com, new MGM Bonovo team owner Michael Galinski said: “We would of course like to thank BMW for the last four years. With many ups and downs, we will especially remember 2023, which we finished as the best BMW team. That will also be remembered for a long time.

“Nevertheless, we are now going separate ways, but we always keep looking forward. Every time one door closes, another one opens, and we are happy to announce that we are changing partners and going to Ducati. We have been warmly welcomed there and in Scott we will have a rider we have known for a long time.

“I think we are starting with a special motivation, as he celebrated his greatest successes on Ducati and certainly wants to build on that. We in the team are really happy that Jurgen Roder [previous team owner] is continuing to support us: as a sponsor, as an advisor and now also as a friend.

“The situation will change now that I am the team owner, but Jurgen Roder will continue to support us. We are now looking forward to next season.

“We have downsized and are a one-rider team again, just like we started out, but we are still really looking forward to it and are excited to see what our new adventure will bring us.”

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