PhilippOettl

Born in Bad Reichenhall in Germany in 1996, the 27-year-old is the son of former World Championship rider Peter Oettl. After getting involved in the Red Bull Rookies Cup tournament - in which he won several races between 2010 and 2012 - he made his debut in the Moto3™ World Championship in the last race of 2012. The following season he became a regular Moto3™ rider and competed there until 2018, the season in which he won a race at Jerez.

In 2019 he made the leap to Moto2™ before switching to the WorldSSP paddock. He finished third overall in his debut season with numerous podiums but wasn’t able to take victory. After World Supersport victory eluded him once again in 2021, Oettl graduated to the Team GoEleven Ducati squad, race winners in WorldSBK, with the hope of getting in and amongst the fight at the front of the field. After two seasons at the Team GoEleven outfit, Oettl found himself looking for a ride despite a strong end to 2023. He landed with GMT94 Yamaha and the R1 in 2024, and finished the year 24^th in the Riders’ Championship, that offseason moving to Feel Racing WorldSSP Team and raced atop their Ducati Panigale V2 in what was his first year back to WorldSSP since 2021. After a few rounds of finding ‘bike fitness’ after a crash in Australia left him with an injured knee, the German landed his first podium of the season at Most, jumpstarting a return to form that saw him miss the top ten only once in the entire rest of the season including a second podium finish in Estoril’s Race 2. He remains with the Ducati-powered team in 2026 where he will look to pick up where he left off last season.