It’s only one week from the resumption of the World Cup MotoGP at Silverstone the ‘market’ will be reactivated in the star category. Before the holidays all the rumors of the ‘radio paddock’ capitalized on them Marc Márquez and the moves of his environment to promote a change of scenery in the ranks of KTM a year before the expiration of his current contract with Honda, at the end of 2024. But other fronts have opened, some unexpected like the interaction between alex rinses and the official Monster Energy Yamaha team to include it in 2024, an end confirmed by the current team manager in LCR Honda Lucio Cecchinello Looking for a new pilot.
Automatic renewals for one year of Alex Marquez by Gresini Racing and Augusto Fernandez of GasGas Factory. There are officially six vacant spots for 2024 and there is also one Moto2 rider, Pedro Acosta, with a guaranteed place in the KTM ranks, but his final destination is still unknown.
Officially, the ‘hot’ seats are one on Monster Energy Yamaha, now by Franco Morbidelli, one on Prima Pramac Ducati, by Johann Zarco, one on Gresini Racing, by Fabio di Giannantonio, two on Mooney VR46, by Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini, and one on Idemitsu LCR Honda, by Taka Nakagami. All of them are officially under contract until the end of 2013.
The delicate sporting moment of Marc Marquez and Honda seems to be inviting a parting of ways a year earlier than expected unless the 2024 bike they are supposed to make in Japan is a revolution, although there have been several failed revolutions since 2019. Neither World Cup can allow one of its great stars to always be a lost soul in the race, as is currently the case, nor does Honda seem to remain in the business of his stay.
But the problem is that the championship does not want to give up the two places it holds from the feared Suzuki to a team linked to one of the existing factories and yes to a new factory. And so is KTM, which at the moment has four places -in the Red Bull KTM Factory with Binder and Miller and GasGas Factory with Pol Espargaró and Augusto Fernández- and five riders on the payroll adding to Pedro Acostawith Marc Márquez in his orbit.
One of the exits indicated by the Mattighoffen boss, Stefan Pierre, is the purchase of the premises of a team currently in financial trouble -CrytoData RNF, an Aprilia client, has signed up-. They also talked to Lucio Cecchinello’s team to switch from Honda to KTM, but the Italian is not close to parting ways with Japan.
They need a safe place to put Pedro Acosta. For the second may Marc Márquez They allow themselves to be loved because they don’t want to pay 100% for that party. The problem is that in this movement one saint is stripped to clothe another. If KTM buys Razali’s places, there will be two more riders entering the ‘mercato’, Miguel Oliveira and Raúl Fernández, who will be left without a team.
The end of the cycle at Yamaha has come for Franco Morbidelli Whose position can you fill? alex rinses because even if the contract with HRC is two years, if an offer comes from an official team, it has the right to terminate. In the LCR Honda Cecchinello is looking for an experienced rider to replace Rins and Morbidelli is a rider who suits him, although Japan would prefer to see there Iker Lecuona, The brand’s current rider in Superbikes and has had several Honda substitutions in MotoGP this year, the next at Silverstone due to Rins. The other place was decided directly by Japan and again it was between Nakagami and Ogura.
No renewal issues for Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini in VR46 Racing -there is plenty of room for a VR46 management pilot-, but it is in the hands of Ducati to transfer its pilots between its structures and one of the seats that dances with a factory contract is the Zarco at Prima Pramac. At the moment it seems that Ducati is in no rush to renew the French veteran due to the current situation. In its fourth structure, Gresini Racing, whose riders are not paid by Borgo Panigale, can enter Moto2 Tony Arbolino instead of Fabio di Giannantonio.
THESE ARE THE CONTRACTS
Until the end of 2024
Marc Marquez (Spain) Repsol Honda Team
Brad Binder (South Africa) Red Bull KTM Factory
Pecco Bagnaia (Italy) Ducati Lenovo Team
Aleix Espargaró (Spain) Aprilia Racing
Maverick Vinales (Spain) Aprilia Racing
Fabio Quartararo (France) Monster Energy Yamaha
Jack Miller (Australia) Red Bull KTM Factory
Pol Espargaró (Spain) GasGas Factory Racing Team
Enea Bastianini (Italy) Ducati Lenovo Team
Jorge Martín (Spain) Prima Pramac Ducati
Joan Mir (Spain) Repsol Honda Team
Miguel Oliveira (Portugal) CryptoData RNF Team
Raúl Fernández (Spain) CryptoData RNF Team
Alex Rins (Spain) LCR Honda Castrol *
Until the end of 2023
Franco Morbidelli (Italy) Monster Energy Yamaha
Fabio di Giannantonio (Italy) Gresini Racing
Johann Zarco (France) Prima Pramac Ducati
Marco Bezzecchi (Italy) Mooney VR46
Luca Marini (Italy) Mooney VR46
Takaaki Nakagami (Japan) Idemitsu LCR Honda
Augusto Fernández (Spain) GasGas Factory Team **
Alex Marquez (Spain) Gresini Racing **
Pilots with pre-contract for 2024
Pedro Acosta (KTM)
* option to waive the second year if an offer comes from an official team
** automatic renewal performed
Source: La Verdad
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