The decision on the composition of the official Ducati 2025 team must be made these days by a committee of experts formed by the CEO of Ducati Motor, Claudio Domenicali, the CEO of Ducati Corse, Luig ‘Gigi’ Dall’Igna, the new sports director of Ducati Corse, Mauro Grassilli, and the director of the Ducati Lenovo team, Davide Tardozzi. And a huge dilemma weighs on them, they must choose between three pilots Enea Bastianinithe current owner, Jorge MartinPramac Ducati pilot, and Marc MárquezGresini Racing driver, to accompany the renewed Pecco Bagnaia during the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
In practice, the options Enea Bastianini to renew his seat is diluted like sugar because his results are not at the level of the other two colossi. The decision is between a young rider who has spent his entire MotoGP career (since 2021) on Ducati motorcycles – always on Pramac – and leads the World Championship with a 38-point lead, Jorge Martinand the rider who makes magic in just five GGPPs with Ducati even if his results are not that great, Marc Márquez. And he leads with his record of achievements and his six world titles in MotoGP, not to mention that he is the jewel in the MotoGP crown in terms of popularity.
Before returning to his office in Borgo Panigale, Gigi Dall’Igna He passed through the TV Compound at Le Mans and on the Sky Sporte microphone he once again presented what lies ahead: “It is very difficult to decide. Everyone is doing incredible things and they have nothing to prove at this point. We must not wait a long time to decide as justice to the runners.
And the decision has been anything but pleasant because whoever they pick for the official team could get out of hand. Jorge Martin He has threatened to dress him in red or leave Ducati and Jerez Marc Márquez He said loud and clear that he wanted an official motorcycle and that the Ducati Pramac wasn’t worth it “because it’s not an official team.” Although at Le Mans the 93 seems to have caught up: “as competitive as I am, obviously next year I want to try to have the latest evolution, any bike, any color, any brand.”
It might be worth it to Marc, but for the Ducati bigwigs the idea of having the most successful active rider is a dream they never thought they would reach. They were shocked when she agreed to bare her chest and not pay a single euro cent. And Dall’Igna as an engineer wanted to continue to see for himself how Marc was doing things on his Ducati that no other Ducati rider had done before.
This is volume 2 of what the championship’s social networks have dubbed The Ducati decision, a summer classic they staged two years ago when they had to choose between Enea Bastianini and Jorge Martín to replace Jack Miller and ‘The Beast’ won the nomination.
Volume 1 was 15 days ago with that triumphant statement: “The sense of responsibility for the future of drivers like Bastianini, Martín and Márquez is there. In fact, we try to give them the best possible material , the best possible advice, so that they are doing well in these races just shudder to think that it has to be taken.
Although in principle, everyone pointed to the week of the Italian GP in Mugello (June 2) as the last day of announcing the news, the latest information is on the line that it is “in the summer” and points to the week of the GP of the Netherlands in Assen (June 28-30).
Source: La Verdad
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