Oli Bayliss has ditched Ducati heritage for a factory Triumph Street Triple 765, setting his sights on a fresh challenge and big results in the 2025 World Supersport Championship.

Way back in early November (AMCN 74 No 10) we ran a major news item on Oli Bayliss testing a factory Triumph Street Triple 765 at Jerez.

We had a gut feeling that this was much more than the “one-off” outing everyone associated with the test was saying.

Now it has been confirmed that Bayliss will join British rider Tom Booth-Amos in the PTR Triumph Factory Racing outfit in the World Supersport Championship for 2025.

The move is a huge change for Bayliss, whose family has been associated with Ducati since his father Troy first raced a Ducati 916 for the GSE team in the 1998 BSB season in the UK. Bayliss went on to become a Ducati factory legend and one of the faces of its worldwide promotion.

However, Oli Bayliss has found his experience with Ducati in WorldSSP tough, especially after an injury midway through 2023 curtailed that season.

Our WorldSBK reporter Gordon Ritchie reckons the characteristics of the Triumph triple versus the Ducati twin will be a challenge, especially the lack of outright performance, but being with an English-speaking team will boost his learning curve.

Several Triumphs are raced in WorldSSP these days with Booth-Amos placed highest at 10th overall at the end of season 2024 on the factory bike.

Here’s what the principal players in this big turnaround of Bayliss’s career have to say:

Oli Bayliss, PTR Triumph Factory Racing:
“I am super excited to continue my World Supersport journey in 2025 with PTR Triumph. We had a test straight after the last round in Jerez and I felt good on the bike and gelled well with the team. I need to say a big thank you to Darrell Healey and GSE for their continuous support over the years and to Simon Buckmaster for giving me this opportunity. I think we can have a good season and achieve some goals.”

Simon Buckmaster, PTR Triumph Factory Racing Team Manager:
“It’s great news we have been able to finalise the deal with Oli Bayliss. He tested with us straight after the last round at Jerez this year and straight away he gelled with Tom, they know each other anyway and get on well. It’s fantastic for us as a team to have two strong riders working together data wise to help bring both of them on. We are really excited looking forward to 2025.”

Steve Sargent, Triumph Motorcycles Chief Product Officer:
“We are pleased to welcome Oli to the Triumph Factory team. He is an exciting young talent who we feel has the potential, alongside Tom to deliver a strong performance in 2025. We feel we have both the bike and the team to help get Oli the results that he deserves, and I am very much looking forward to watching what he and the team can achieve this season.”