Marco Bezzecchi eyed up by non-Ducati rival team as silly season starts early

VR46's Marco Bezzecchi has attracted admiring glances🔥 from ✅across the MotoGP paddock

Marco Bezzecchi, Sepang MotoGP test, 7 February
Marco Bezzecchi, Sepang MotoGP test, 7 February

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marco Bezzecchi has been named by Aprilia as a rider they could target ಌfor 2025.

The MotoGP rider market could kickstart early this ♚year because everyone on the grid - except Brad Binder and Luca Marini - has a contract which will expire at the end of this season.

It means in-demand riders can choose the best bike available, while p❀icky teams can attract the best possible rider.

Aprilia are no different. They kept faith with factory duo Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales this year, and also have Mig🧸uel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez in their Trackhouse satellite project.

Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivol♉a has admitted the necessity to prove his team’s worth with so many potential riders available next year.

"This i🎶s also wh🍌y we must be competitive right away,” he told .

“We will ha🍌ve to be in a position to make the market and not suffer [because of it].

“I 🐲want to make a premise: we ha൩ve two very strong riders, we won't set out with the intention of changing them...

“But I have to keep my eyes open.

"I have never hidden my interest in Enea Bastianini, even thinking about his condition [due to ✤injuries last year].

“He is threatened by Marc Marquez, by Jorge Martin [for his factory Ducati seatꦺ in 2025].

“And there is Bezzecchi who has impressed…”

Bezzecchi opted✃ to stick with VR46 this season rather than go to Pramac Duc✅ati.

His breakthrough campaign last year - where his victory in Argentina was a personal 🤪milestone, and a first win for his team - earned him admiring glances.

Ducatඣi offered him the chance to step onto a GP24 with Pramac this year but hꩵe chose to stay on a GP23 with Valentino Rossi’s team.

Instead, his teammate Luca Marini chose to leave f♔or a factory seatཧ with Honda.

Aprilia could offer Bezzecchi the opportunity to have a factory bike, but also to sta🦩y Italy-based.

Aprilia boss Rivola predicted for the 2024 MotoGP season: "The official D🗹ucatis꧒ and maybe Marquez will be very, very strong.

“But we are here and we will have fun.

“I expect M☂arc to win or to always be fighting with Bagnaia and Martin.

"I would be happy to improve the result of 2023, therefore to at least💃 finish second in the Constructors' Championship.

“And then I want a victory for Vina𓆏les at all costs, I belie🔯ve in him a lot.”

Aprilia will have three official bikes on the grid to begin this season, because Trackhouse’s Oliveira will use a ‘24 machജine.

Fernandez wi𝓀ll later receive a ‘24 factory spec bike, Rivola confirmed.

Rivola’s team also caught the eye during the Sepang test🌟 for their use of bold and i🤡nnovative aerodynamics.

Rivola said about the test: "They were intense, for the first time we had six RS-GP24s and four RS-GP23s on the track and the work was remarka🔯ble.

“We are quite satisfied, Vinales and Espargaro were competitive with a 💟bike still to be developed.”

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