Ducati Ends Maddii Racing Partnership After Two Stellar Seasons

Ducati concludes its two-year motocross project with Maddii Racing after MXoN 2025, closing a chapter that delivered podiums, holeshots and historic firsts.

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The partnership between Ducati and the Maddii Racing Team has officially drawn to a close. The final race together was the 2025 Motocross of Nations at Crawfordsville’s Ironman circuit on 4–5 October, the last flag on a collaboration that helped bring Ducati into motocross in a way the sport had never seen before.

The relationship began in 2024, when Ducati selected Maddii Racing to debut the all-new Desmo450 MX. The factory prototype entered the Italian MX Prestige Championship with Alessandro Lupino, who went on to win the title. Later that season, the Desmo450 MX made its first MXGP appearance in Arnhem with Antonio Cairoli. Those first campaigns proved that the concept was not just hype or branding — the bike could win, the bike could fight, and it could do so at championship level.

In 2025, Ducati continued with Corrado and Marco Maddii’s structure and levelled up its ambition. Ducati is committed to the full MXGP World Championship, fielding Jeremy Seewer and Mattia Guadagnini. The results were tangible. Seewer delivered podium finishes in Switzerland and France.

The team secured multiple holeshots and showed the bike could start up front against the established powers of the paddock. The season closed on the biggest stage of all: the Motocross of Nations. There, Antonio Cairoli and Jeremy Seewer represented Italy and Switzerland, respectively, on the Desmo450 MX, giving Ducati its first-ever MXoN presence.

So while the partnership now ends, its significance cannot be overstated. This two-year period was more than a team agreement. It was Ducati’s first major proof-of-concept in the dirt. Maddii Racing became the true testbed for the Desmo450 MX, showing the world that Ducati’s engineering and racing philosophy could cross over from tarmac to soil.

Ducati has publicly thanked Corrado and Marco Maddii for their commitment, their work ethic, and their belief in a new programme that had no history behind it. The farewell is respectful, appreciative, and dignified. But this does not read like the end of Ducati in motocross. It reads like the conclusion of Phase One.

Ducati came into MXGP with a prototype and left with podiums, holeshots, a national title, and a Nations appearance.

Something new is coming next, and this chapter only made that possible.