Overview
- Franco Morbidelli was ruled out of Tuesday's Valencia test after fracturing his left hand in a startline incident with Aleix Espargaro’s bike.
- VR46 confirmed Celestino Vietti will ride Morbidelli’s Ducati Desmosedici GP at Ricardo Tormo for his first MotoGP outing.
- Vietti, a VR46 Academy rider with wins in Moto3 and Moto2, finished seventh in the 2025 Moto2 standings after an inconsistent year on Boscoscuro machinery.
- He will run No. 13 at the test and joins fellow rookies Toprak Razgatlioglu and Diogo Moreira on track.
- Fabio Di Giannantonio remains on the other VR46 bike as scheduled, with both he and Morbidelli contracted at the team through 2026.