Christian Pupulin, who serves as Jack Miller's technical manager at KTM, will join Honda next year and replace Giacomo Guidotti on Luca Marini's side of the garage, Motorsport.com has learned.With the rider market having now settled down after some bombshell announcements around the Italian GP, the focus has shifted to some of the leading engineers on the grid.
The change of brand for 'Pipi', as the aeronautical engineer is popularly known in the paddock, will not be the only major shuffle in 2025. Motorsport.com already reported a few weeks ago that Marquez will inherit Marco Rigamonti as track engineer when he replaces Enea Bastianini at the factory Ducati team next year. Bastianini will move to Tech3 KTM, where he will be reunited with Alberto Giribuola, who was in charge of running his satellite Ducati bike at Gresini.