Enea Bastianini’s impressive form at last🅘 weekend’s Portuguese MotoGP💝 have not allayed fear about his 2025 Ducati contract.

Bastianini knows that his deal expires at the en🌠d of this year and hꦿis bike is the envy of the entire grid.

Pramac’s Jorge Martin and Gresini’s Marc Marquez are just two candidates 🧸who would love to ride the GP24 with the developmental benefits that a factory status can earn a rider.

But Bastianini delivered a reminder of what he can do in Portimao by grabbing pole posit♉ion.

He was then sixth in theও sprint and second in the🍷 grand prix.

“What I love is that💎 he’s not lying down,” Neil Hodgson said on TNT Sports.

“He’s the forgotten man. People are saying ‘will he keep ꩲh🦩is ride in the factory team?’

“Probably not. But he’s fighting.”

Bastianini exorcised the ghosts of 2023 when, on his Duc🍸ati debut, he broke a shoulder in the first-ever sprint race at Portimao.

It scuppered any hop🌼e of a title challenge and has kept him on the back foot ever sinc﷽e.

Sylvain Guintoli reacted to his impressive pꦅole position last weekend: “It’s funny that it’s happening here - the very place that, last year, his season began to unravel.

“Luca Marin♓i🔯 made a small mistake and took him out.

“Unfortunately for Bastianini he broke his shoulder blade. It took him ag🔯es to come back.

“He wasn’t competitive. He didn’t like the front end feel of t🔜hat 💫Ducati last year.

“This year he’s coming back fighting.

“He knows that🥂 hi♍s contract is at stake. It looks like he’s on form.”

It now feels a long time ago that, in 2022, Bastianini won the second-most gran🐎ds pr༒ix behind eventual champion Francesco Bagnaia.

Then with Gresini, Bastianini fought wheel-to-wheel with his future teammate Bagnaia in the closing stages of that൲ season.

He then earned the promo๊tion into the factory team at Martin’s expense.

But his debut season was wrecked by 𝄹injury, then an inability to adjust to the new Ducati.

But Bastianini did win the Malaysian MotoGP𒐪 at the end of last year, and remains in promising form after🅰 the first two rounds of 2024.