Cost-cutting of Ducati salaries puts Jorge Martin future in doubt

Francesco Bagnaia's new big-money deal will not be replicated, putting Jorge Martin's next move into questioꩲn

Jorge Martin, MotoGP race, Qatar MotoGP, 10 March
Jorge Martin, MotoGP race, Qatar MotoGP, 10 March

Ducati reportedly want to reduce the overall cost of their MotoGP riders’ salaries - meaning 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin will need to find a new home.

MotoGP’s dominant ma🌠nufacturer reduced their spending by 50% after Andrea Dovizioso left, and now want to replicate that cost-cutting, repor♏t.

Factory rider🍌 Francesco Bagnaia has signed a new long-term deal - worth up to €10m if he wins the championship - but Ducati will not sanction that sort of money for anybody else.

Bagnaiꦿa was 🔥paid similarly to Martin and Enea Bastianini until this new deal.

Pramac’s Martin (whose contract expires at the end of this season) has threatened to quit Ducati unless he is♎ promoted to the factory team in 2025.

But a Ducati source told Motorsport: “Salaries have toᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ be in line. Ducati cannot be paying a base of €2m to a rider of a satellite team.”

It was added: “Ducati doesn't want is to commit to paying figures that in one or two years will be difficult to afford.💟”

Fermin Aldeguer, the Moto2 talent, is expected to arrive at 🐷Pramac in 2025.

He will be paid €300,000, the report states.

Aldeguer’s comparatively low salary 🃏is evidence of how Ducati intends to control spending in 2025 and beyond.

Mart🐻in, in his search for a factory role and the type of contract now enjoyed by Bagnaia, could be forced to look elsewhere as a result൲.

Even if he were to be offered a factory Ducati bike in ‘25, it would not comꩵe with the money paid to ℱBagnaia.

But Ducati have the best bike on the MotoGP grid, which shows little s🐼ign of changing after the season-opener in Qatar.

It means riders - including the likes of Marc Marquez who left his big-money 🐎Honda deal to go to Gresini - might sacrifice economics for a compe🅺titive machine.

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