Luca Marini
Marini at the2025 Malaysian Grand Prix
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1997-08-10)10 August 1997 (age 28) Urbino, Italy
Current team	Honda HRC Castrol
Bike number	10
Motorcycle racing career statistics MotoGP World Championship Active years 2021– Manufacturers Ducati(2021–2023) Honda(2024–) Championships 0 2025 championship position 13th (142 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 94 0 2 2 1 518 Moto2 World Championship Active years 2015–2020 Manufacturers Kalex Championships 0 2020 championship position 2nd (196 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 87 6 15 5 5 626 Moto3 World Championship Active years 2013 Manufacturers FTRHonda Championships 0 2013 championship position NC (0 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 1 0 0 0 0 0

Luca Marini (born 10 August 1997) is an ItalianGrand Prix motorcycle racer contracted to race withHonda HRC Castrol during 2024 and 2025.^[1][2]

Marini competed forMooney VR46 Racing Team in the2023 MotoGP World Championship, finishing the season in eighth position. He finished as runner-up in the2020 Moto2 World Championship. He is the maternal half-brother ofValentino Rossi.^[3]

Marini made his début in the Moto3 World Championship at the2013 San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix as awildcard, failing to finish the race.

In2015, he got another wildcard entry at thesame place, this time in the Moto2 class withPons Racing Junior Team aboard aKalex, finishing the race in 21st place.

In2016, Marini was signed by theForward Team to compete full-time in the same class; he got his first Grand Prix points inQatar, where he finished in 10th place, and his best result inGermany, where he had a 6th-place finish. Marini still remained with the team for

In2017, Marini was signedForward Team. Finished in 4th place,Czech Republic.

In2018, Marini achieved his first podium in Germany and his first victory in Malaysia.

In2019, Marini secured two podiums in Mugello and Assen, leading to back-to-back wins at Thailand and Japan.

In2020 Marini became a contender for the championship title along with Enea Bastianini and Sam Lowes, the first round of the season saw Marini retire at Qatar but would clinch his first win at the second round at the Spanish Grand Prix and claim a second-place finish in the second Jerez round (the Andalusian GP), with more point scoring finishes at Brno (4th place) and another second-place finish at the Austrian Grand Prix and a point finish in Styria before claiming his second win and a 4th place respectively at the two Misano rounds before adding a third win at Catalunya.

Marini finished the French Grand Prix outside the points in 18th and at the first Aragon round he highsided off his bike and retired from the race with Lowes taking first place in the next three rounds with Marini finishing the same three rounds (Teruel, Europe, and Valencia) in 11th, 6th and 5th place respectively and finishing 2nd in Portugal behind Remy Gardner who would claimed his first win.

Marini finished the 2020 Moto2 season as the championship runner up with 196 points with over three wins and three 2nd place finishes which put Marini ahead of Lowes who had scored exactly the same points as Marini but Lowes claimed third and Marini second at the final race which meant that Marini was ahead of Lowes on countback, with Bastianini being nine points ahead of both of them.

For2021, Marini moved to the MotoGP class joining the Esponsorama Avintia team along with 2020 Moto2 Champion Enea Bastianini, Marini however would use the Sky VR46 livery on his bike while Bastianini would use the Avintia livery.

For the first two rounds of his rookie season at Qatar, Marini ended up finishing 16th and 18th respectively while his teammate Bastianini finished 10th and 11th in the first two rounds. Portimao saw improvement for Marini as he managed to make it into Q2 of Qualifying through free practice and started 8th on the grid, he finished the race in 12th place.

For2022, Marini was confirmed to be staying in the premier class, partnering his 2020 teammate atMooney VR46 Racing Team,Marco Bezzecchi.

For2023, Marini finished the season for Mooney VR46 Racing Team in eighth place. He took his first premier class podium atAustin, and his first pole position at theIndonesian Grand Prix. A standout performance at theQatar Grand Prix with pole position and P3 finishes in both the sprint and feature race was his last podium as a Ducati rider.

Marini initially signed one year extension with the VR46 team,^[4] however rumors began circulating the paddock about Marini being linked to a vacant seat at theRepsol Honda team left by the 8-time world champion,Marc Márquez. The VR46 team subsequently confirmed Marini's departure, with Honda confirming the signing of Marini two days later.^[5]

Marini had a successful start to his 2025 campaign, scoring points in the first seven races with a best finish of eighth at theCircuit of the Americas. However, after successfully undergoing the first day of testing theSuzuka 8 Hours at the Suzuka circuit, Marini had a serious crash on the second day of testing or on 28 May 2025.^[6] The Honda factory team rider suffered a dislocated left hip, ligament injury in the left knee, fractures of thesternum and leftcollarbone, and a right-sidedpneumothorax. The Italian rider was immediately taken to a local hospital and but was in stable condition.^[7] Spending the next three races absent due to recovering from his injuries, Marini made his return at theGerman Grand Prix with a remarkable sixth place finish in the main race.^[8] His best weekend with the team came a few races later at theHungarian Grand Prix, where he earned a best finish of fourth in the sprint before coming home fifth in the main race.^[9][10] After two more top-ten finishes inCatalunya andMisano, a clutch problem on the opening lap saw Marini suffer his first race retirement of the year inJapan.^[11]

Marini is set to continue with Honda for the2026 season alongside Mir.^[12]

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