250: Simoncelli expects MotoGP move.
Reigni🌜ng 250cc world champion Marco Simoncelli is weighing up his options for a move to the MotoGP class next season.
The Metis Gilera rider is believed to have been offered a satellꦇite Ducati ride for this season, but decided to try and defend his title in the hope of a more competitive of💃fer.
Unfortunately, the new rule banning rookies from entering the 🌸preꦆmier-class with a factory team - unless it is with Suzuki, which has no satellite outfit - has complicated things.
Reigning 250cc world champion Marco Simo🌟ncelli is weighing up his options for a move to the MotoGP class next season.
The Metis Gilera rider is believed to have been offered a satellite Ducati ride for this season, but decided to try and ✱defend his title in th🦹e hope of a more competitive offer.
Unfortunately,💟 the new rule banning rookies from entering the premier-class with a factory ꦯteam - unless it is with Suzuki, which has no satellite outfit - has complicated things.
"I think that I will go to MotoGP; having spoken a little with everyone I am now evaluating the situation. It is still to be decided, let's say," Simoncelli told the official 𒐪MotoGP website.
"Apart from Suzuki, the impossibility of a rookie riding for a factory te෴am next year has changed the plans," he admitted. "What happens with the other possibilities remains to be seen."
Simoncelli's comments seem to suggest that Aprilia's hopes of tempti♏ng the young 🍸Italian to the World Superbike Championship look slim at best.
Meanwhile, Simoncelli's 250cc rival Alv🤡aro Bautista is also predicted to make the step up to the premier-class next year, possibly on M1 machinery run by his present Aspar team.
Another 2009 race winn🍌er, Hiroshi Aoyama, could also have a chance of an 800cc ride, while Yamaha'༺s WSBK star Ben Spies has also been linked to a 2010 MotoGP seat.
The lea🙈ding satellite MotoGP team after five of 17 rounds, and therefore the theoretical top target (alongside Suzuki) for any future class rookies, is the Mons🎃ter Yamaha Tech 3 outfit.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20🙈 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuꦛki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
