Ducati reportedly want 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta but have hit an obvious stumbling block.

KTM factory rider Acosta is one of the names aಌt the centre of the MotoGP rider🐈 market.

His manager Albert Valera also looks after Jorge Martin, whose 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:bombshell intention to quit Aprilia w🐟ill also pique rivals’ interests inside the MotoGP pa🅘ddock for 2026.

Acosta “receives looks with heart-shaped eyes from Honda HRC and Ducati”, Sky Italia report.

They add: “Ducati's desire for Acosta is strong, and Ducati's attention to his tal🅷ent is as strong.”

VR46 are the team who have been closely linked to Acosta, a🌠nd they have enjoyed two casual conversations with him.

The first came at Valentino Rossi’s ranch for t🌄he 100km of Champions in January, the second was with his manager.

But “they were🍸 exploratory meeting🐈s, without the discussions being deepened”, Sky Italia report.

However, Acosta is contracted to KTM until the end of 2026 and they are in no mood to let the❀ir prized possession go, irrespective of the problems that the manufacturer has faced outside of MotoGP.

Ducati also have very little room within ﷺtheir 2026 rider line-up.

The only bike that is set to become vacant at the end of this season belongs to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli in the VR46 team.

VR46 respond to Pedro Acosta rumours

VR46 have strongly insisted that, although Morbidelli’s contract is🌟 expiring, they will keep him next year.

Team boss Uccio Salucci insisted any talks with Acostaℱ were casual, and of no importance.

“Nothing more, that's it,” he said. “Never ꦐs📖ay never.

“We have Franco, a rider we like a lot.

“With Pedro [and his] management, we 𒁏ha♏d no more contact.”

Salucci added about Morbidelli: “We hope we can renew with him. because anyway Franco is💞 fantasti💙c.”

Morbidelli endured a difficult first year ওon a Ducati with Pramac in 2024, largely owing to a slow start due to injury, but has found the f✅orm of old with VR46.

Has h✨as twice been on the podium, and twice finished꧋ fourth, in grands prix.

Morbidelli 🗹sits impre🌃ssively fourth in the MotoGP standings.

He is also riding a year-old bike,𝐆 with VR46’s only factory-spec machine in Fabio di Giannan𒀰tonio’s hands.

The team’s ability to offer a factory-spec Ducati - the best bik🎐e in MotoGP - is an obvious temptation to Acosta.

But despite the mutual attrac𒀰tion there are big hu𝐆rdles before Acosta riding a Ducati can become a reality.