Luca Marini

Luca Marini
Luca Marini
	Marini in 2015
Nationality	Italian
Born	10 August 1997 (age 24); Urbino, Italy
Current team	VR46 Racing Team
Bike number	10
Motorcycle racing career statistics
MotoGP World Championship
Active years	2021–
Manufacturers	Ducati
Championships	0
2021 championship position	19th (41 pts)
Moto2 World Championship
Active years	2015–2020
Manufacturers	Kalex
Championships	0
2020 championship position	2nd (196 pts)
Moto3 World Championship
Active years	2013
Manufacturers	FTR Honda
Championships	0
2013 championship position	NC (0 pts)

Luca Marini (born 10 August 1997) is an Italian motorcycle racer. He is the maternal half-brother of Valentino Rossi.^[1] He finished as runner-up in the 2020 Moto2 World Championship.

Career[]

Moto3 World Championship[]

Marini made his début in the Moto3 World Championship at the 2013 San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix as a wildcard, failing to finish the race.

Moto2 World Championship[]

In 2015, he got another wildcard entry at the same place, this time in the Moto2 class with Pons Racing Junior Team aboard a Kalex, finishing the race in 21st place.

Forward Team (2016–2017)[]

2016[]

In 2016, Marini was signed by the Forward Team to compete full-time in the same class; he got his first Grand Prix points in Qatar, where he finished in 10th place, and his best result in Germany, where he had a 6th place finish. Marini still remained with the team for

2017[]

In 2017, Marini was signed Forward Team. Finished in 4th place, Czech Republic.

Sky Racing Team VR46 (2018–2020)[]

2018[]

In 2018, Marini achieved his first podium in Germany and his first victory in Malaysia.

2019[]

In 2019, he secured two podiums in Mugello and Assen, leading to back-to-back wins at Thailand and Japan.

2020[]

In 2020 Marini became a contender for the championship title along with Enea Bastianini and Sam Lowes, first round of the moto2 season saw Marini Retire at Qatar but would clinch his first place win at the second round at the Spanish Grand Prix and claim a second place finish in Jerez , with point scores at Brno in 4th place and another second place finish at the Austrian Grand Prix and a point finish in Styria before claiming his second win at Misano and a third win at the Catalan Grand Prix with the previous round being a 4th place finish.

Marini finished the French Grand Prix outside the points area in 18th and at Aragon saw the Italian high side off his bike and retiring from the race with Lowes taking the first place win and two more wins the next rounds with Marini finishing the same three rounds of the Teruel motorcycle Grand Prix, the European Grand Prix and Valencian Grand Prix in 11th, 6th and 5th place respectively and finishing 2nd in Portugal behind Remy Gardner who would claim first place

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 by rule, with Bastianini being nine points ahead of both Lowes and Marini respectively.

MotoGP World Championship[]

Sky VR46 Avintia (2021)[]

For 2021 Luca 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 Avintia Liveries

For the first two rounds of his rookie season at Qatar, Marini ended up finishing 16th and 18th respectively on the grid outside the points area while his teammate Bastianini finished 10th and 11th 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.

VR46 Racing Team (2022–)[]

Career statistics[]

FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship[]

Races by year[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos	Pts
2013	FTR Honda	CAT1	CAT2	ARA	ALB1	ALB2 7	NAV	VAL1	VAL1	JER 14			25th	11
2014	Kalex KTM	JER1 Ret	JER2 14	LMS 10	ARA 15	CAT1 15	CAT2 16	ALB 10	NAV Ret	ALG 18	VAL1 8	VAL1 8	16th	32

FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship[]

Races by year[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos	Pts
2015	Kalex	ALG1 5	ALG2 4	CAT 2	ARA1 Ret	ARA2 7	ALB 4	NAV1 4	NAV2 4	JER 4	VAL1 Ret	VAL2 6	5th	115

Grand Prix motorcycle racing[]

By season[]

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Team	Number	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2013	Moto3	FTR Honda	Twelve Racing	97	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2015	Moto2	Kalex	Pons Racing Junior Team	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2016	Moto2	Kalex	Forward Team	10	18	0	0	0	1	34	23rd
2017	Moto2	Kalex	Forward Racing Team	10	16	0	0	0	0	59	15th
2018	Moto2	Kalex	SKY Racing Team VR46	10	18	1	5	2	1	147	7th
2019	Moto2	Kalex	SKY Racing Team VR46	10	19	2	4	1	2	190	6th
2020	Moto2	Kalex	SKY Racing Team VR46	10	15	3	6	2	1	196	2nd
2021	MotoGP	Ducati	SKY VR46 Avintia	10	18	0	0	0	0	41	19th
Total					106	6	15	5	5	667

By class[]

Class	Seasons	1st GP	1st Pod	1st Win	Race	Win	Podiums	Pole	FLap	Pts
Moto3	2013	2013 San Marino			1	0	0	0	0	0
Moto2	2015–2020	2015 San Marino	2018 Germany	2018 Malaysia	87	6	15	5	5	626
MotoGP	2021–present	2021 Qatar			18	0	0	0	0	41
Total	2013, 2015–present				106	6	15	5	5	667

Races by year[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Pos	Pts
2013	Moto3	FTR Honda	QAT	AME	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GER	IND	CZE	GBR	RSM Ret	ARA	MAL	AUS	JPN	VAL			NC	0
2015	Moto2	Kalex	QAT	AME	ARG	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GER	IND	CZE	GBR	RSM 21	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL		NC	0
2016	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 10	ARG 18	AME Ret	SPA 16	FRA 12	ITA Ret	CAT Ret	NED Ret	GER 6	AUT 17	CZE Ret	GBR Ret	RSM 13	ARA 25	JPN 12	AUS 16	MAL 9	VAL 22		23rd	34
2017	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 6	ARG 12	AME 10	SPA 5	FRA Ret	ITA 6	CAT DNS	NED Ret	GER DNS	CZE 4	AUT Ret	GBR 11	RSM Ret	ARA Ret	JPN Ret	AUS 23	MAL Ret	VAL 23		15th	59
2018	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 9	ARG 16	AME 13	SPA Ret	FRA Ret	ITA 7	CAT 17	NED 8	GER 3	CZE 2	AUT 3	GBR C	RSM Ret	ARA 11	THA 2	JPN 9	AUS 5	MAL 1	VAL Ret	7th	147
2019	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 8	ARG 7	AME 6	SPA 8	FRA 13	ITA 2	CAT 6	NED 3	GER 10	CZE 5	AUT Ret	GBR 9	RSM 11	ARA 4	THA 1	JPN 1	AUS Ret	MAL 10	VAL 8	6th	190
2020	Moto2	Kalex	QAT Ret	SPA 1	ANC 2	CZE 4	AUT 2	STY 7	RSM 1	EMI 4	CAT 1	FRA 17	ARA Ret	TER 11	EUR 6	VAL 5	POR 2					2nd	196
2021	MotoGP	Ducati	QAT 16	DOH 18	POR 12	SPA 15	FRA 12	ITA 17	CAT 12	GER 15	NED 18	STY 14	AUT 5	GBR 15	ARA 20	RSM 19	AME 14	EMI 9	ALR 12	VAL 17		19th	41

References[]

^ "San Marino MotoGP: Rossi 'can't wait' for half-brother Luca's GP debut". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2016.

External links[]

Luca Marini at MotoGP.com

[1] "San Marino MotoGP: Rossi 'can't wait' for half-brother Luca's GP debut". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2016.

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