In general, Ducati still wants to extend the time when they announce the Pecco Bagnaia tandem for 2025. However, on Thursday Mugello 2024, the media atmosphere in Italy has strongly suggested that Ducati is more inclined to choose Jorge Martin as Pecco’s tandem. And of course this news has reached Marc Marquez’s ears. At Mugello Marc was asked about this and asked for his opinion.
” For now, the news I get from Ducati is not like this, but in any case I still do my 100% on the race track. I just try to do as much as I can because with this I will get more opportunities for different places. And yes let’s see if I can continue in the same way as the last Race”
Marc was also asked about the scenario that if Jorge Martin was chosen then would he want to join Pramac with a Motorcycle Factory. And Marc’s final update on this scenario is “Yes, Pramac is a very good team as can be seen from how Martin shows good potential, but [Pramac] is not an option for me.”
Continuing this answer, does that mean Marc will race for another factory team? . Marc gave his answer again, “Of course what I am looking for is what I said in the last two or three races, namely that the final version of the motorbike is the main priority. If it’s a factory team, it would be better.
If you want to fight for the Champion Title, which is what I mean, you have to be ready in all aspects or try to find facilities and if you are on a factory team you will get more facilities. If you have the latest Version of the Motor then you have even more facilities. The latest version of the motorbike is the main priority ”
From what Marc said, it can be seen that even if a satellite team is given a factory motorbike, he will accept it, but it is very clear that he did not choose the option of racing at Pramac next year. Trying to formulate the meaning of Marc’s words above, tmcblog predicts that Marc Marquez will continue to race at Ducati with Gresini Racing using the latest GP25 spec motorbike next year together with his younger brother Alex Marquez.
Alex Maybe will use GP24 later. And with Marc’s clarity that Pramac is not an option, this will make Pramac lack bargaining power with Ducati and make it possible for them to switch to Yamaha in 2025. VR46 will be with Bezzecchi (GP25) and Fermin Aldeguer’s Ducati Corse team. . . If Bezz does not move to another manufacturing team, Digia may be sacrificed and potentially move to another team that is also ready to open the next constellation.
