It’s official. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez will be Francesco Bagnaia’s team-mate in the factory Ducati squad for the 2025 and 2026 MotoGP seasons.

The agreement returns the eight-time world cha♎mpion to front-line title contention after splitting from Repsol Honda to ride a year-old Gresini Ducati this season.

Although y💟et to win a race Marquez’s big gamble in leaving Honda has paid off handsomely, especially having now secured the most coveted 🐎seat on the premier-class grid.

Marquez had been i🙈n a duel with curren🧔t Pramac Ducati title leader Jorge Martin for the coveted ride and, it was rumoured just days ago, was set to lose out to his younger countryman.

Butඣ the #93’s public rejection of a switch to factory machinery at Pramac appeared to prompt a shock U-turn by Ducati, while se♐nding Martin into the arms of Aprilia.

Martin signed with the rival Italian factory at 5:30pm during Monday’s Mugello post-race test and, with Bagnaia’s current team-mate Enea Bastianini reported to be joining KTM via a Tech3 a seat, only the ♛paperwork was left for a Marquܫez-Ducati deal.

Marquez - who won the MotoGP title in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 for Honda, before several years of arm injury misery began at Jerez 2020💫 - has taken three grand prix podiums for Gresini on the GP23.

Martin leads the points standings by a reduced 18 points from reigning double champion Bagnaia, with Marquওez also firmly in the early title hunt in third place, 35 points from Mart🥃in.