Nineteen are the pilots who throughout 2024 will guard their future off the track. This is the whole grill except Brad Binder, renewed by Red Bull KTM Factory until 2026, and until 2025 they signed with LCR Honda John Zarco and by Repsol Honda Luca Marini. Some will fight for its renewal and others for a change of scenery, but all indicate that the first announcement before the start of the 2024 campaign is the world champion. Pecco Bagnaia.
Sky Italia asked him about this at the end of the Lusail test and Bagnaia made it clear that “we want to move forward together.” By Gigi Dall’Igna, the general director of Ducati Corse, it will not be: “The goal is to renew his contract before Qatar, even the contract of a double world champion is always complicated,” he told La Gazzetta dello Sport’.
It is quite consistent in Bagnaia’s career to start campaigns knowing what his future holds and thus focus on competing. His jump to MotoGP in 2019 in the Alma Pramac Racing ranks was announced on February 21, 2018 and with that peace of mind he competed in his final campaign in Moto2 where he was crowned champion. Borgo Panigale made him last when it came to making sure to jump to the official Ducati Lenovo team for 2021, known on September 30, 2020 when the last five GGPP of that pandemic campaign were left.
Since it has become an indispensable part for Ducati, its adjustments have again become ‘stable’. His last contract 2023-2024 was obtained on February 21, 2022 before the start of the next campaign and everything indicates that the next announcement, in two years, will fall soon.
After the unpleasant experiences in terms of results with Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, who were paid huge sums that destroyed the rider market at the time, Ducati’s policy became more conservative: they lowered the price when radical in exchange for being better at ‘bonuses’ .
But now Bagnaia is negotiating as a two-time world champion and being the highest paid driver on the grid is what he has.
Source: La Verdad
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