Revealed: The reason Pramac Ducati disappeared as an option for Marc Marquez
Pramac Racing have now filled the seat that Joh💧ann Zarco left behind with Franco Morbidelli in the 2024 MotoGP rider line-up.
But Marquez held talks to join Pramac, revealed.
Marquez want൲ed a one-year contract which could be renewed annually but Pramac were insisting upon a two-year deal. This proved t🌠o be the sticking point.
“The VR46 management was good at moving early to bring Franco 🐈Morbidelli to Paolo Campinoti's team for 2024,” the report states.
The Pramac team would have offered a latest-spec Desmosedici, creating the fascinaไting situation that Maꦯrquez could move from arguably the worst bike in MotoGP to the best.
At Gresini he must make do with a year-old Desmosedici but, as Marco Bezzecch▨i has proved this year, that ♈machine can still compete at the sharp end of MotoGP.
The report also insists that🌜 the Repsol Honda star rider has been talking to several teams.
“ཧMarquez had started a series of negotiations,” Sky Italia report.
KTM were heavily linked several weeks and months ago, a team who have Red Bulꦡl as 𝓰a powerful mutual sponsor with Marquez.
But their inability to get Dorna to allow them a fifth or sixth b🌳ike on the 2024 grid scuppered thei🌄r hopes of attracting Marquez.
They could revisit the possi🍎bility of signing Marquez in 2025.
If he stays at Honda he will become a free agent in 2025, but if he joins Gresini Ducati as Sky Italia are now reporting, he ma▨y only pen a one-year deal.
The details of a possible deal with Gresini - which w▨ould pair him with his brother Alex Marquez - are yet to be revealed.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Americ🍸an sports, to football, to F1.
