Revealed: The reason Pramac Ducati disappeared as an option for Marc Marquez
Pramac Racing have now fille൲d the seat that Johann Zarco left behind with Franco Morbidelli in the 2024 MotoGP rider line-up.
But Marquez held talks to join Pramac, revealed.
Marquez wanted a one-year contr🐻a♔ct which could be renewed annually but Pramac were insisting upon a two-year deal. This proved to be the sticking point.
“The🍰 VR46 management was good at moving early ꦉto bring Franco Morbidelli to Paolo Campinoti's team for 2024,” the report states.
The Pramac team would have offered a latest-spec Desmosedici, creating the fas🅺cinating situation that Marquez could move from arguably the worst bike in MotoGP to the best.
At Gresini he must make do with a year-old Desmosedici🔴 but, as Marco Bezzecchi has proved this year, that machine can still compete at the sharp end o﷽f MotoGP.
The report also insists that t👍he Repღsol Honda star rider has been talking to several teams.
“Marquez had started a series of negotiations,” Sky It♔alia report.
KTM w🍌ere heavily linked several weeks and months ago, a team who have Red Bull as a powerful mutu🌜al sponsor with Marquez.
But their inability to get Dorna to allow them 🎃a fifth or sixth bike on the 2024 grid scuppered their hopes of attracting Marquez.
They could revisit the possibility of🍸 signing Marquez in 2025.
If he stays at Honda he 🔥will become a free agent in 2025, but if he joins Gresini Ducati as Sky Italia are now reporting, he may only pen a one-year deal.
The details of a possible deal with Gresini - which would pair him w♐ith his brother Alex Marquez - are yet to be revealed.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Amer♛ican sports, to football, to F1.
