Regina - MotoGP and World SBK Rider Championships among seven senior titles in 2024
Italian motorcycle chain manufacturer Regina may have been founded in 1919, it may well have been the effective inventors of power transmission chain for motorcycles, but that heritage doesn't mean you can be complacent about your place in the market or about the products that you make.
Every year is another opportunity to prove how good you are and to stay up with (or ahead of!) the competition and when it comes to motorcycle racing the importance of track successes is every bit as important for chain manufacturers as it is for brake pad, oil, filter, spark plug, battery, tyre, helmet, apparel and performance accessories manufacturer categories.
No surprise then that EICMA saw the Bergamo area manufacturer getting excited about the prospects for a Jorge Martin/Prima Pramac Ducati MotoGP Championship win. That win came on November 17 at the rearranged final Round for 2024 - staged at Barcelona because of the problems that struck Valencia.
The Spaniard took third place behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo) and Marc Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP) in second; giving Martin his third race win and 16th Podium out of 20 races, winning the 2024 MotoGP title by 10 points over the Italian Bagnaia. The pair being well ahead of Marquez who took third spot in the Championship, with the Ducati sweep extended to fourth spot by the second placed Ducati Lenovo rider, Enea Bastiani (Italy) in fourth.
But it didn't stop there for Regina in 2024, with Toprak Razgatlioglu winning the WordSBK using Regina chain on his BMW, Ai Ogura taking the honours in Moto2, Jorge Prado in MXGP with GASGAS, Josep Garcia and Manuel Lettenbichler on with KTM in EnduroGP and Hard Enduro respectively, and Marc- Reiner Schmidt with TM in Supermoto.
That is seven World Championships in 2024, taking the company's total haul of top honours to some 380 world titles since the first - with Bruno Ruffo on Moto Guzzi in 1949. Since then, the Regina roll call is impressive, including the likes of Ubbiali, Hailwood, Agostini, Capirossi, Biaggi, Doctor Valentino Rossi, Stoner, Everts, Cairoli and Herlings, just to mention a few.
Being a preferred partner in racing allowed has Regina to develop "the ultimate product characteristics and technology in manufacturing. Exclusive technical solutions such as the Z-Ring, the Chromized Pin, the Shaped Bushing and the taC coating on maintenance-free HPE chains are just some of the latest milestones in our portfolio," says Motorcycle Division Sales Director Federico Gualdi.
To round-out the Regina racing report card for 2024, honourable mentions also for three junior riders powered to their championships with Regina chain - Enduro Junior with Max Ahlin; Enduro Junior 1 with Kevin Cristino and Enduro Youth with Manuel Verzeroli.
