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Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Ready for Double-Header Kick-Off at Mugello

The Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team have travelled straight to the flowing hills of Tuscany, Italy for Round 9 of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship. The Brembo Grand Prix of Italy holds special significance for the team, as it's Yamaha Motor Racing's home GP, so Fabio Quartararo and Álex Rins are keen to put their best foot forward.

Scarperia (Italy), 18th June 2025

The Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team have travelled to the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello for Round 9 of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship. As they consider the Brembo Grand Prix of Italy their home GP, it's a race weekend that the Yamaha Motor Racing staff always look forward to.

Fabio Quartararo has great memories of racing at the Mugello circuit with Yamaha. His brilliant win at the Italian GP in 2021 and his strong second place in 2022 underline why he is considered one the most talented riders in the paddock. The Frenchman completed a successful test at the Aragon track a little more than a week ago and is hoping that the extra data gained there can help him climb up from 10th place in the overall rankings.

After a positive Aragon test, Álex Rins is looking forward to making moves at the Mugello circuit this weekend. The Spaniard has yet to visit the premier class podium in Tuscany, though he came close in 2019 when he secured fourth place. He did, however, frequent the Italian GP rostrum in the lower classes. In Moto3 he earned a second and a third place in 2013 and 2014 respectively. This weekend, he aims to score solid points again and improve on his current joint-16th position in the championship standings.

Mugello is considered one of the most beautiful tracks on the calendar, thanks to its mixture of uphill and downhill sections and a variety of fast and slow turns. The 5245-metre-long Tuscan circuit hosted its first MotoGP event back in 1976 and became a permanent fixture in 1991. The Italian GP is famous for its great atmosphere and is said to be a 'must-be-at event' for motorcycle fans.

This year the Italian GP is sponsored by Brembo, an Italian manufacturer of automotive parts that most notably produces braking systems (also for the Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team). As a part of Brembo's 50th anniversary, Quartararo's and Rins' bikes will feature Brembo's special 50th anniversary logo on Sunday.

Massimo Meregalli

Team Director, Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP

"It's been quite a busy two weeks for Yamaha with the Aragon GP directly followed by the IRTA test and then the private test in Barcelona. The next two weeks will be equally busy because we have our first double-header of the season, starting in Mugello with a visit to Assen next. The extra data that our team has collected at the Aragon test can come in helpful this weekend. It will be interesting to check our findings during an actual race weekend at a very different track. After a difficult outing in Aragon, we are aiming for an uplifting experience in Mugello. Purely based on proximity, the Italian GP is the closest to the team's headquarters, so this round is always special, as it feels like a home race."

Fabio Quartararo

Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Rider

"We now start the first double-header of the season. At the test in Aragon, it looked like some of the items we tried could be positive also here in Mugello, so I'm curious to see if that is the case. I really like this circuit, and the grip here is usually better than in Aragon too, so let's see what we can do. We will give it our all, as usual."

Álex Rins

Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Rider

"We tried a lot of things at the Aragon test, and we finished it with a good feeling. However, as I said then, we are still planning on starting this race weekend with our usual base set-up. We believe we found a good base, but we'll need to do some tweaks to avoid last Race's issues. We want to do well because the Italian GP is sort of our team's home race."

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