Marini considered for Pramac after Bezzecchi rejection

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marco Bezzecchi rejected the chance to swap his VR4🃏6 team for Pramac next season, and therefore trade a year-old bike for the💜 latest spec.

“I'm not surprised,” sporting di꧒rector Ciabatti tol🦂d .

“We thought he deserved🗹 an official bike, in 2024 we will have four official bikes by contract. 

“We ha๊d in 2022 to have fiv♑e official bikes but we realised that had excessive costs. 

“The only opportunity for Bez to have an official bike was to plaಌce him in Pramac, with Matteo Flamigni.&n💟bsp;

“H𓂃owever, knowing Marco's relationship witജh the VR46 team, I understood his choice very well. I understand and appreciate it.”

That left Ducati needing a Plan B for Pramac.

They plumped for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli, who had lost his Yamaha seat, but not without other consideratiཧ🔯ons.

“We did a series of evaluations, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini was also there, then the decision shifted to Franco,𒈔”🅘 Ciabatti said.

Bastianini struggled 'more than we expected'

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enea Bastianini has been backed to co✱ntinue as a factory rider despite an injury-๊ravaged first year wearing red.

“He did an important j🔥ob last year, four victories,” Ciabatti rememb🃏ered.

“This year he strugg𒉰led a little, a little more than we expected, already in the tests🌟, to adapt to a different working environment. 

“L൩et's not forget that he had to change♔ crew chief because Alberto Giribuola decided to go to KTM.

“However, it is a season in which all the things that co⭕uld go wrong did go wrong. 

“But 🍎in Indonesia, in the race, he set the fastest lap and so I think we are on the right track."

'Difficult to say how competitive Iannone will be'

Ducati have also opted to place 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andrea Iannone into their Go Eleven WorldSBK team in 2024.

Iannone, the former Ducati MotoGP 𒁃rider, will conclude a four-year doping ban in December.

“Operation defined in re𒉰cent weeks,” ♔Ciabatti said. 

“I'm very please𓄧d, his desire shows how muc꧑h he still wants to race, but four years of inactivity is a long time, so it's difficult to say how competitive he will be. 

“I think it will take some time but then he will be among th𝔍e protago💮nists. 

“He is still relatively you꧅ng♔, given how much Alvaro Bautista is doing.”

Factory vs Pramac team orders?

The burning question is whether Ciabatti and co will influence the MotoGP title fight between factory rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia and Pramac’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin.

“If Ducati were wཧorried about making another team win, they wouldn't give Pramac and🦄 Jorge Martin the same type of bike and evolutions,” Ciabatti insisted. 

“The most attentive will have noticed that💝 in recent racꦓes there are fins mounted on the front forks. Which bikes have it? Those of Bagnaia and Martin.

"They have exactly the same technical package and seven peopl🧔e from Ducati work there in Pram൩ac. 

“I understandও that those who conspire don't believe it, but that's how it is. 

“W🦩e decided to put the Lenovo and Pramac riders in the same situation, right or wrong, may the best win.💯 

“We consider them two♉ official teams, it is t🔜hanks to Pramac that we have brought several riders on official motorbikes.”