Martin narrowly missed out to factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia in the 2023 MotoGP champi🤪onship battle and, as a result, will spend this year at Pramac Raꩲcing again.

But, armed with his status as last season’s runner-up﷽ and among the favourites for glory this year, he is eyeing up other factory opportunities for 2025.

"I see myself as an official rider ♐in 2025,” he sa𝔉id to . 

“If not at Ducati, I will look for other ✅options.”

Martin insists “at no time during the year” did he ask for a promotion from Pramac to the factory squad, until he began to “move the option”♉ in the final stages of the season.

It had been reported previously that, if Martiܫn won the championship, a contractual clause would have automatically taken him onto a factory bike, even as early as the postseason test i🍸n Valencia.

Instead, Enea Bastianini will continue♎ alongsid𒆙e Bagnaia in red this year.

“My main goal i🀅s to go to Ducati but, if it can’t be done, I’ll have to look at other options,” he warned.

“T❀here are many factories🔯 that are making big steps, we’ll see what the best option is.”

But for 2024?

Martin insisted: “I📖’m happy to continue at Pramac, it’s the best 🌳place to fight for a championship.”

Most riders on the grid have entered the final year o꧋f their contracts which means that, by this summer, negotiatᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚions will take place to potentially totally restructure the rider line-up for 2025.

He reflected on his runner-up finish last year: “I’m 🎀satisfied, very happy. It 🧔has been a year to remember.

“Obviously it wasn’t the result tha🌠t I wanted, hav𒅌ing it so close, but I am very proud of the year that we had.

“I give mys🙈elf a high grade because finishing second today i🥂n MotoGP is not easy at all.”