MotoGP: Gigi Dall’Igna provides update on when Ducati could announce 2024 riders

Gigi Dall’Igna claims negotiations will take place between Mugello and Sachsenring to determine their full 2024 MotoGP rider line-up.
Gigi Dall'igna, Ducati MotoGP 2023
Gigi Dall'igna, Ducati MotoGP 2023

Francesco Bagnaia, aℱnd Enea Bastianini are locked into deals until the end of the 2024 MotoGP campaign, however, changes could take place at any one of their three satellite teams. 

Both Pramac, Gresini and Mooney VR46 riders are contracted until the end of this seas🔜on, however, most of those riders are e🧸xpected to remain with Ducati, including Marco Bezzecchi who has been rumoured as an option for Pramac. 

Speaking to about the importance of having so many top riders, and when anno🥀uncements could 𒐪be made, Dall’Igna said: "It’s important to have many bikes on the grid to have the riders to improve the performance and to grow up with us. 

"Above al🔯l, with the rider strategies we have don𒆙e after 2019 and also from a technical point of view because we can learn about different riding styles. This is our philosophy, my philosophy during all the years. 

"We don’t want to change our approach. It’s important to have the ♔best riders in the factory team but we don’t ask the other riders not to fight and to win races because they have to do that. 

"In the end, it is a Ducati bike. I don’t want to reduce the p💮erformance of the Ducati bike. 

"From Mugello to Sachsenring w൲e can begin the negotiat﷽ions with the riders for the future."

One of the biggest attractions for riders looking to join Ducati is not only the all-round performance of the bike, but the continued im൲provements when it comes to aero efficiency.

Having said that, Dall’Igna was quick to say that no m✅ajor changes are likely to take place before 2026.

"We have space to improve on the a💎ero and we have some ideas on that," added Dall’Igna. "But I don’t think that before 2026 you will see something completely different. 

"𒉰Maybe starting 🤡from 2027 when the rules will change. Maybe we can have some steps."

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