Mooney, which joined the new🤡 VR46 premier-class project last season after the expected Aramco backing evaporated, is thought t🃏o be scaling back its sponsorship for 2024.

eBay has been rumoured as a possible replacement 💮but Indonesian oil and gas giant Pertamina says it is also in talks with VR46.

"There is a plan, yes, that's right (to be the main sponsor of VR46), but it's still being discussed. It's not official yet," Pertamina Lubricants vice president Fadjar Djoko Santoso told .

VR46, w♏hich runs Ducati machinery, has celebr🤪ated its first MotoGP race wins this season with Marco Bezzecchi, the young Italian also holding third in the world championship.

Team-mate Luca Marini, Rossi’s younger brother, is sixth overall andไ took his first MotoGP podium with seco☂nd place in COTA.

VR46 is tipped to run an unchanged rider line-up next season with Bezzecchi expected to t♌urn down the chance of factory machines with Pramac to remain with VR46 for another season, alongside Marini.