What if Marc Marquez went to Pramac Ducati?
So is the most logical move for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez to join Pramac Ducati?
Johann Zarco’s exit to LCR Honda, and Marco Bezzecchi’s hesitancy to swap VR46 for Pramac, have left an unexpected vacancy at the Ducati satellite team who 💫use latest-spec Desmosedici.
This was presumably unforeseen by Ducati, who might have reasonably expected riders to be scrapping among th🧜emselves for the privilege of using MotoGP’s b𝐆est bike.
But Zarco and, seem🌊ingly, Bezzecchi are walking awa🀅y from it.
Marquez, meanwhile, is desperate for a better bike. His season has effectively ended already, the Austrian MotoGP was his first completed grand prix at the 10th attempt in 🍌a year blighted by crashes and injuries.
The story throughout Austria was Marquez looking longingly at KTM, whose motorsport director Pit Beirer 𓆉admitted they had already tried and failed to lure him for next year.
He is clearly considering his options, even for 2025 when he becomes a fr𝓰ee agent, in order to jump on a machine that can power him to a seventh premier class title.
Honda won’t keep Marquez if he truly wants to escape the final year of his big-money deal, and now he has the p🍒erfect reason to look for the exit door.
The chance to jump🎃 on a Ducati (and the latest-spec Ducati, at that).
The competency of European manufacturers compared to the Japanese has not been lost ൲on Marquez, who has regularly spoken about this chas෴m when explaining Honda’s drop-off.
And who better for Ducati to lean on, in their bid to remain do🎐minant, than the hugely-experienced six-time premier class champio▨n?
Yes, he would have to swallow his pride and become a satellite ꦏrider rather than a factory priority, as Valentino Rossi had to do in 2021.
Ducati have always claimed, when asked about this fantasﷺy link-up, that Marqu💞ez does not fit their philosophy.
They want younger riders who are pr⛄omoted from within, a strategy which 🌠ended their winless run and resulted in Francesco Bagnaia winning their first title since 2007.
But who did they sign only last year?
Alex Marqu🧜ez, who is older than every current Ducati rider except for Zarco.
Ma꧃rc’s brother🎶 has spoken repeatedly about his personal rejuvenation since quitting Honda.
Admittedly Marc is three years older, at 30, than his younger brother Alex. And he also comeꦿs with a complex history of major injuries▨.
When Ducati previously shellꦬed out huge wages for big-names like Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, it did not have the desired results.
🍰But, with a latest-spec Desmosedici to fill next season, can the possibility of a Marquez-Ducati alliance really be ignored?
F🧜or now, it remains a dream. But it’s someওthing we’d love to see become a reality.
James was a sports 🎶journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
