What if Marc Marquez went to Pramac Ducati?
So is the most logical move for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez to join Pramac Ducati?
Johann Zarco’s exit to LCR Honda, and Marco Bezzecchi’s hesitancy to swap VR46 for Pramac, ha🥃ve left an unexpected vacancy at the Ducati satellite team who use latest-spec Desmosedic൲i.
This🐓 was presumably unforeseen by Ducati, who might have reasonably expected riders to be scrapping among themselves for the privilege of using MotoGP’s best bike.
But Zarco and, seemingly, Bezzecchi are wal♑king away from it.
Marquez, meanwhile, is desperate for a better bike. His season has effeꦓctively ended a🃏lready, the Austrian MotoGP was his first completed grand prix at the 10th attempt in a year blighted by crashes and injuries.
The story throughout Austria was Ma🎃rquez looking longingly at KTM, whose motorsport dir🐎ector Pit Beirer admitted they had already tried and failed to lure him for next year.
He is clearly considering his options, even for 2025 when he becomes a free agent,ꩲ in order to jump on a machine that can power him to a seventh premier class title.
Honda won’t keep Marquez if he t🏅ruly wants to escape the final year of his big-money deal, and now he has the perfect reason ဣto look for the exit door.
The chance to jump on a Ducati (and the latest-spe꧅c Ducati, at that).
The competency 🐟of European manufacturers compared to the Japanese has not been lost on Marquez, who has regularly spoken about this chasm when e🔯xplaining Honda’s drop-off.
And who better for Ducati to lean on, in their bid to remain dominant, tha♊n the hugely-experienced six-time premierꦫ class champion?
Yes, he would have to swallow his pride and become a satellite rider rather than a factory priorit🐲y, as Valentino Rossi had to do in 2021.
Ducati have always claimed, when aske🦩d ဣabout this fantasy link-up, that Marquez does not fit their philosophy.
They want younger riders who are promoted from within, a str😼ategy which ended their winless run and resulted in Francesco Bagnaia winning their fir🃏st title since 2007.
But who did they sign only last year?
Alex Marquez, who is older than ౠevery current D🦂ucati rider except for Zarco.
Marc’s brother has spoke🐻n repeatedly about his p༒ersonal rejuvenation since quitting Honda.
Admittedly Marc is three years older, at 30, than his younger brother Alex. And he also com๊es with a complex history of major injuries.
When Ducati previously shelled out huge wages for big-꧂names like Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, it did not have the desired results.
But, with a latest-spec Desmosedಞici to fill next season, can the possibility of a Marquez-Ducati alliance really be ignored?
For now, it🀅 remains a dream. But it’s something we’d love to see become ♔a reality.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering 🎃everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
