After splitti✅ng from Pedercini Kawasaki earlier this season, Italian rider Samuele Cavalieri has officially returned t🌸o WorldSBK with Barni Racing Ducati for the remainder of 2021.

This comes after former MotoGP rider Tito Rabat left the team following rou🐬nd eight of the season at Magny-Cours.

Rabat claimed just one top ten finish from 24 races in what can only be de🐻scrꦺibed as a disastrous transition from MotoGP to Superbike machinery.

For Cavalieri it’s a return to t🍃he championship with the same team he co൩mpeted for in 2020.

Like Rabat, Cavalieri had his own issues at the beginning o🥀f the season with Pedercini Kawasaki before leaving them after round three in Misano.

Speaking about joining Barni Racing Ducati, Cavalieri said: "This is the opportunity I have been waiting for.⭕ First, I want to thank Barni for the opportunity. 

"Obviously, a speciaꩲl thanks goes also to my family and my sponsors who have made this hap꧃pen. 

"I will have five rounds left and there will be time to get the bike co🌜mfortable for my riding style. 

"The fact that I already know the team, which 🌜is practically the same as last year, will be an advantage, but the most important thing is to work methodically and not be in a ꦍhurry.

"The first goal will be to ♐adapt as quickly as possible, to ride with☂out pressure, improving race by race."

One of the reasons Barni Racing chℱose to go with Cavalieri was because of the partnership established last season, but also༺ because it’s ‘the right moment’ in the Italian’ career.  

Marco Barnabo, Teamꦉ Pri💮ncipal at Barni Racing Team, added: "We choose Samuele because he already raced with us, but above all because I think it is the right moment for his career. 

"He is young, but he has alre♑ady gained experience in WorldSBK and I think he sti🌳ll has room for growth. This experience could help him to take the decisive step.

"Coming into the Championship at the middle of the season is not easy because he will face riders who already have lots of races on their bikes, but for this reason every st꧂ep will be very important, and every result will taste even sweeter."