After a successful debut season that ended with a podium finish, Swiss rider Marcel Brenner has secured a spot on the Polish AF-Racing Team. This means that Supersport Daniel Blin is no longer the sole rider on 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 makes perfect sense: to win the championship in the new EURO MOTO Supersport class. What else? The reigning champion, Andreas Kofler, has moved up to the Supersport. Runner-up Dirk Geiger has switched to Yamaha. Blin is expected to take the lead, just 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 ever,” says Brenner, who withdrew from the Supersport in August 2024 due to health issues. Fainting spells, mental exhaustion, a kind of burnout, panic attacks. The racer from Schüpfen, a village of 4,000 in the canton of Bern, now has his condition under control. “I know how to manage myself and can really enjoy riding the motorcycle again. Last year in the IDM Supersport a rebuilding year, but now it’s time to get down to business. The fact that things worked out with AF-Racing is fantastic, because my sponsor, Moto-Tech Schweiz AG, is a major Ducati dealer.”
Brenner finished sixth overall last season. In Most, Czech Republic, he finished third in Supersport first Supersport.
