Lorenzo Savadori

Lorenzo Savadori is a motorcycle racer from Italy, He was the 2015 FIM Superstock 1000 Cup winner and the Italia 2020 CIV Superbike Champion, acting as test rider for Aprilia with occasional wild card race entries. For the 2021 season, he competed in the MotoGP class of racing for Aprilia Racing as team-mate to Aleix Espargaró.

Career

After finishing runner-up in the 2007 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, in 2008 he won the Italian 125GP championship and the European 125cc Championship. He debuted in the 125cc World Championship; he raced in the latter class for the following two seasons before switching, in 2011, to the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, where he was champion in. From 2016 to 2018 he rode for Aprilia in the Superbike World Championship with a best finish of 10th place. In he rode for Gresini Racing in the MotoE World Cup aboard an Energica Ego Corsa. In 2020 he won the CIV Superbike championship.

Savadori debuted in the MotoGP class replacing Bradley Smith as the substitute for the suspended Andrea Iannone.
Savadori replaced reigning world champion Jorge Martín in the Thailand, Argentine and Americas rounds of the 2025 season after the former injured his left wrist in training during pre-season. He replaced Martín again from the Spanish Grand Prix onwards after the latter was injured again in an accident at the Qatar Grand Prix. In a wet race at Le Mans, Savadori broke his record MotoGP feature race finish, with 9th place.