The Althea World Superbike team has confirmed a switch to BMW machinery from 2016, signing Jordi Torres and Markus Reiterberger as its two riders. Althea has been a long-time partner of Ducati, using the Bologna marque's bikes in WSBK since 2010 and winning the 2011 title with Carlos Checa. This season, it ran a pair of Ducati Panigale Rs for Matteo Baiocco and Nico Terol, who was replaced at various stages by Niccola Canepa and Michel Fabrizio. The news that Althea will switch to BMW follows the announcement that the German manufacturer is parting ways with M&T Racing, which ran a single S1000RR machine for Ayrton Badovini in 2015. Althea has recruited German Superbike champion...
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