Oli Bayliss and Barni Racing reveal 2022 livery ahead of two-day Misano Test

Oli Bayliss testing at Misano this week

After an early setback during testing at Portimao early last month where he fractured his ankle Oli Bayliss has been training hard to stay in shape for the season ahead.

The Barni Spark Racing Team that Oli will ride for this season overnight unveiled their liveries for 2022 campaign at Misano’s Garage Store 51 ahead of a two-day test at the Italian circuit this week.

While Oli will be the team’s sole entrant in the new look World Supersport Championship, a debut year for the team in WorldSSP, the team is actually running five riders across four different championships.  In WorldSBK Luca Bernardi will ride a Barni Ducati Panigale V4 RS 22, in CIV Superbike both Michele Pirro and Michal Filla will race on Barni V4 R machines, while Nicholas Spinelli will contest the CIV Supersport Championship on the Panigale V2.

Marco Barnabò – Team Principal

“A very challenging season is ahead of us, but I’m really excited to start a project with young, but very ambitious riders. For the first time we have a two-year project in WorldSBK, while in WorldSSP everything will be completely new. The CIV Superbike will see us trying to defend the crown, again with Michele Pirro, who is now part of our family, while Filla allows us to make the collaboration with our title sponsor Spark even stronger. Spinelli, after last season, has deserved the confirmation, and we have decided to continue the path together in the CIV Supersport.”

With the support of Ducati, the Bayliss family chose the Barni Spark Racing Team to take Oli’s career a step further, as he will be competing for the first time on the international stage at the age of 18.

Oli’s arrival in the WorldSSP Championship with the Ducati Panigale V2 comes exactly 20 years after Troy’s first World Championship title with another twin-cylinder Ducati, in Superbike.

Oli Bayliss

“After recovering from the injury, it is nice to be here at Misano for the presentation, but also for my first real test. Hopefully, I can get more confidence with the bike, do as many laps as possible and be 100 per cent soon.”

Ducati have only once won the World Supersport Championship, and that victory came in the series’ inaugural year back in 1997 with a 748 in the hands of Paolo Casoli.

2022 WorldSBK Calendar

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