GRT Yamaha has announced that Marvin Fritz✱ will join the team at this weekend's WorldSBK Cremona Round in place of Dominique Aegerter𝄹, who continues to recover from injury.

In the week leading up to the French Round, which took place just over a week ago, ﷽Aegerter was injured in a crash while training on a motocross bike.

Alessandro Delbianco replaced the Swiss rider at Magny-Cours, and finished a respectable 10th ﷺin the sodden Race 1.

With Aegerter still r🌃ecovering from the injuries he sustained before France, which included mutliple rib fr🌞actures and damage to his right shoulder, Yamaha has this time called on Marvin Fritz to replace the GRT Yamaha rider.

“First of all, I would like to wish Dominique a speedy recovery," Fritz said on the announcement of his WorldSBK replacement appearance at Cremona this weekend. "I cannot wait to be in Cremona, to ride for the GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team and the Yamaha R1 in the Worl▨dSBK is like a dream for me."

Fritz, who rides for the Yamaha's factory YART team in the Endurance World Championship (in which YART, with Fritz, finished second overall in the 2024 championship last weekend after securing third place in the Bol d'Or, which came despite suffering a tyre failure in the first ho🌌ur), is not entirely new to WorldSBK, but it's b♈een since the end of 2022 that he's appeared in the class.

"I’ll have to adapt to a lot of things as since my last wild card in Portimao (2022) things hav💛e changed, but I’ll try to enjoy the weekend and do my best, having no pr😼essure. I’m looking forward to meet all the team, I’m confident it’ll be a nice experience.”

Fritz will join Remy Gardner in the GR🍷T team this weekend, and possibly at the next round in Aragon, too, which itself is scheduled only one week after the Cremona Round.

“Firstly, I would like to welcome Marvinౠ in our teaওm, wishing again a speedy and full recovery to Domi," Gardner said on the announcement of Fritz as his stand-in teammate at Cremona.

"I 🐭think Cremona could be an interesting round. It’s a new venue and almost everyone will race for the first time here, so anything could happen. In May we enjoyed a very positive test session there, so I’m looking forward to hit the track as I’m confident we could enjoy a strong weekend in Italy.”