Luca Marini

Luca Marini is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer, born on 10 August 1997, contracted to race with Honda HRC Castrol and due to join Red Bull KTM Tech3 in 2027. He is the maternal half-brother of Valentino Rossi and was the 2011 Italian MiniGP 80 champion. He made his Moto3 debut as a wildcard at the 2013 San Marino Grand Prix, rode full time for the Forward Team in 2016 and 2017, and then joined the Sky Racing Team VR46. He won his first race in Malaysia in 2018, and in 2020 won in Spain, at Misano and in Catalonia on his way to finishing runner-up in the Moto2 World Championship. He competed for Mooney VR46 Racing Team in the 2023 MotoGP World Championship and finished the season in eighth position.