Italy already boasts a rich motorcycling history matched by very few countries. From Benelli’s early days to Francesco Bagnaia capturing the 2022 MotoGP Championship aboard a Ducati, keeping track of the boot-shaped country’s contribution to motorcycling is no easy feat. To preserve each historic moment for future generations to enjoy, the Italian Motorcycle Federation (FMI) instituted the FMI Historical Archive.
The program specifically aims to catalog images and videos from watershed moments, events, and records in Italian motorcycling history. Once the archivists reach the modern era, FMI will update the database on a regular basis. After all, Italians are constantly rewriting motorcycle history.
