‘Ducati more interested in Marco Bezzecchi than Luca Marini’ | Valentino Rossi’s VR46 open to Yamaha deal

The noise around title challenger 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marco Bezzecchi’s future, keeping 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini happy as well, plus the looming prospect 🤡of choosing to stick with Ducati﷽ or find a new bike in 2025.
Bezzecchi, third in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP standings, has been linked with a mo🔯ve to Pramac but could receive a factory-spec bike if he stays with Mooney VR46 next season.
“We would like tech support for both riders but they are more interested in Be🧸zzecchi,” team manager Uccio Salucci told .
“So the ide🔯a would be to get a little more factory support for Marco.
“Then it i🌊s also a matter of deciding for Marini, but these d🌠ecisions lie more with Ducati than with us.
“There is no real deadline [to confirm the 2024 rider line-up]. In the case of Be🐲zzecchi, we have an option to redeem inside Misan💙o.
“But I believe that if everything goes well, he wants to stay with us and there𝕴 are ☂no surprises, we might redeem them sooner.
“And in the case of Luca, I would like to ext🤪end the contract.
“From my point of view we will do that shortly, but I have to talk to the VR46 Riders Academy, so his managem𝕴ent, and to him.
“We've already talked a few times and it's going in the direction that we want to continue together – with both rꦰiders. Then we will seeꦏ what will happen.”

Bezzecchi’s first premier class victory was also a first for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valentino Rossi’s MotoGP team, a major milestone.
He is a key piece in the 2024 rider line-up jigsaw, with other manཧufacturers awaiting his fate before deciding their own options🐼.
“I've always said that our goal is for our riders to be promoted to a ꦚfactory team one day,” S💎alucci said.
“Because that would mean that we did a good 🥃job.
“So if I w🔯er🌠e to lose him to a factory team I'd just be happy for him, honestly.
“It's also a friendship, a bit like being an older brother. We'🍸ve been working with Bezzecchi since he was 15, so almost ten years.”
The bigger picture surrounding the future of the Mooney VR46 team is wh❀ich bike they opt f🍒or in 2025.
They are contracted to Ducati until the end of 2024,💯 an alliance which has clearly benefited their riders in terms of their machinery.
But Rossi’s personal link to Yamaha means the Japanese manufacturer, currently at a lo𝔍w ebb and seeking rejuvenation, could emerge as an option.
Rossi recently signed a deal to act 𒊎as a♏ Yamaha brand ambassador.
“For 2024 for sure, we have a contract with Ducati, as I have repeatedly emphasised - even when noboᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚdy wanted to believe it,” 🌌Salucci said. “Then, of course, for 2025 we will look around and choose the bike that best suits our project.”

James was a sports 🤪journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.