The Ducati Lenovo Team has unveiled its 2026 MotoGP colours for the first time ahead of Marc Marquez’s title defence season.

Marquez won the 2025 MotoGP title at a canter, clinching the crown with five races to go and winning 11 races from 17 starts.

The Spanish rider returns for a second season at the Ducati Lenovo Team in 2026 chasing a 10th world title in total and an eighth in the premier class, a number that would equal him with Italian Giacomo Agostini.

Marquez will make his quest for that eighth MotoGP title in a new paint scheme from the factory Ducati team, a livery which seeks to celebrate the Italian factory’s 100th anniversary. There are also changes in the number fonts for both riders, with Bagnaia taking a new white number and Marquez putting some white around his red #93.

The livery is not changed in its basic colour scheme, with red unsurprisingly dominating the fairing of the Desmosedici GP26, but Ducati has sought to find some classic inspiration with the new twin white stripes which give a sense of mid-2000s Desmosedicis.

Alongside Marquez, of course, is Francesco Bagnaia in 2026, although the two-time MotoGP World Champion enters this season with uncertainty over his future after a disastrous 2025 campaign that saw him crash out of four of the last five grands prix (and retire from the other with a puncture), and finish only fifth in the standings after taking a top-two position every season from 2021 until 2025.

Bagnaia will have to hit the ground running in 2026 if he is to retain his spot in the factory Ducati team for the first year of the 850cc regulations in 2027.