After a successful debut season that saw him finish on the podium, Swiss rider Marcel Brenner has secured a place in the Polish AF Racing Team. Supersport title favorite Daniel Blin is therefore no longer the sole rider in the Ducati team.
"Great, see you on the track," Daniel Blin left a message for his new teammate on Instagram. Last year's third-place finisher is excited to see what lies ahead. The Ducati rider from Poland won in Most and secured eight more podium finishes for the AF Racing Team. Everything revolved around the 24-year-old success story from Toruń.
His goal for 2026 sounds logical: to become champion in the new EURO MOTO Supersport. What else? The current champion, Andreas Kofler, has moved to the Supersport World Championship. Runner-up Dirk Geiger has switched to Yamaha. Blin is set to shine like the jack in a game of skat.
Actually, there shouldn't be a second driver alongside him, but an exception was made for Marcel Brenner. "Because of my experience and my speed," reports the 28-year-old Swiss.
Brenner will receive a Ducati V2 Panigale prepared by the team and will have access to the same equipment as Blin. "They want not only Daniel to be fast, but me too." The first test is scheduled to take place in Rijeka in April.
"I'm back to my old self and better than before," says Brenner, who withdrew from the Supersport World Championship in August 2024 due to health problems. Weakness, mental exhaustion, a kind of burnout, panic attacks. The racer from the 4,000-strong community of Schüpfen in the canton of Bern now has the illness under control. "I know how to behave and can really enjoy myself on the motorcycle again. Last year in the IDM Supersport was a rebuilding year, but now it's time to get down to business. It's great that it worked out with AF-Racing because my sponsor, Moto-Tech Schweiz AG, is a major Ducati dealer."
Brenner finished last season in sixth place overall. He came third in the first Supersport race in Most, Czech Republic.
