Impact of Ducati’s big-money sponsors considered amid Marc Marquez doubts
“Marquez is hug🗹ely pꦐopular worldwide. He would potentially sell you more motorcycles"

The influence of Ducati’s sponsors could benefit 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez’s h🎃ope of landing the 2025 factor𒁏y bike, it has been suggested.
Gresini’s Marquez, Pramac’s Jorge Martin and current factory Duc꧃ati rider Enea Bastianini are jousting over riding the best mac𝕴hinery next season.
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2025 MotoGP rider line-up hinges on Ducati’s d🌊ecision between their current rider, th🌠e in-form championship leader, and MotoGP’s most high-profile star.
“It’s a co🌳mplex decisi🧸on,” Sylvain Guintoli said on TNT Sports in Barcelona.
“Both choices make sense for different reasons.
“Mart꧅in wasn’t picked, he was disregarded when Bastianini was put in⛄ the factory team.
“Martin still performed and al🔯most won the title last year, if it wasn’t for a few issues he had at the start of the season.
“Look at what he’s doing this year. Unreal. He deser💜🍃ves it.
“But then you’ve 𓆏got Marquez. He’s adapting to the Ducati, he’s fully fit, a🐈nd he’s an eight-time world champion.
“Marquez in red makes sense as well. It would be exciting. He’s soℱmebody, on t👍he media side, if he’s in the factory team it would be a bigger thing than Martin.
“There are arguments for both riders. It is a tou🍨gh cꦗhoice.”
Gavin Emmett said: “I’ve heard people say that the simple thin💞g might be to put Martin in red, and keep Marquez on a factory bike in a satellite team.
“That might be the easiest option. However, D🌄ucati have a lot of sponsors spending a lot of money and they expect to win.
“If you are putting Marquez in a satellite team on a factory bike, and thinking he could win the championship, then you wan🔯t him in your team for your sponsors!”
Mic🅘hael Laverty said about Marquez: “Commercially, it makes sense.
“But that is the double-edged sword. You put Marquez in the Pramac squad, Prima have signed a new three-year deal. Pramac will be happy if they win a title w🤡ith Marquez.”
Laverty considered that D💯ucati sponsors might think ‘why is Marquez winning the championship with somebody else’s livery and colours?’
He added: “It’s a tough one. I wouldn’t like to be in Gigi Dall’Igna’s shoes if he’s the one who makes the final call. 🐎And I believe he is.”
Ducati have major partners who will possibly all have a view on whether t෴hey want Marquez’s star power on their priority bike.
Emmett asked: “Do Audi have a say in it?”
Guintoli replied: “They are paying for itꦬ. 𝄹So yes, definitely.
“It will be a discussion. Gigi’s o𒁏pinion is a big one. It is a di🌃fficult choice.”
Problematically, Marquez’s personal spons🌄ors such as Red Bull and Oakley clash with some of Ducati’s team sponsors.
Marquez has previously hinted that it is an obst🍸acle he could overcome, but nevertheless it is an added financial complication.
Marquez has already left😼 huge quantities of money behind when he quit the biggest rider contract in MotoGP at Honda to join Gresini.
“You wouldღ get Marc at the cheape💞st you could ever get him,” Emmett said.
“There was a time before th🐬e𝓡 long renewal that the rumour was he’d been offered money to go to Ducati.”
Marc Marquez 'would sell more motorcycles'
Suzi Perry said: “It’s an insane situation we find our🗹selves in꧋.
“When he didn’t get the factory seat♒, he went out and nearly won the world championship. He took🐎 it down to the final wire.
“♚Now, he’s leading the championship. He’s riding beautifully, absolutely bossing this paddock.
“Yet, he’s still having to fight. And he’s figh🤪ting an ei𓆏ght-time world champion!”
Neil Hodgson replied: “He’s fighting w🐭ith one of, if not the, greatest motorcycle racer we have ever seen. That is the reality.
🍸“Marquez is hugely popular worldwide. He would potentially sell you more motorcycles, on the commercial side of it.
“Maᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrquez would certainly please the factory t൩eam’s sponsors more.
“When you sit, and you are Gigi Dall’Igna or Claudio Domenicali, what are you going to do? You sit around the table and say ‘these ar🃏e the facts’.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1🐬.