The 2024 MotoGP rider line-up has two Ducati rides expected to be available - the Pramac vacated by Johann Zarcಞo, and the Gresini which Fabio di Giannanontio is se🌠t to be dropped from.

Sཧix-time premier class champion Marquez, who is contracted to Honda for 2024, is🏅 supposedly the shock name on the shortlist for Gresini.

TNT Sports’ Hodgson said at🌸 the Catalunya MotoGP: “The paddock rumours are: there are three names down for that ride that eve🧔rybody wants, because it’s on a Ducati.

“Believe it ﷽or not, it’s Marquez, to partner his brother.

“Joan Mir, and Jake Dixon.

“Those are the three names that are down for it.

“Who do I think 💃is going to get it? I think Jaꦦke. I have no inside-information!

“I know you’re already thinking that Jake has signed for Moto෴2.

“Well, the way this paddock works is, he has 𓃲got a contract in Moto2 saf🌃e.

“But there could be a clause that, if a MotoGP team wants him, he can jump s𒊎hip.”

Should Marquez shockingl💛y get the nod, it would represent a U-turn from Ducati who have repeatedly said they want younger riders to 𒈔be promoted from within.

Although his brother Alex Ma♊rquez was recruited from LCR Honda to Gresini last year.

Mir, Marquez’s teammate at Repsol Honda, insisted thi🗹s weekend that he plans to stay putꦫ despite an awful season which has caused him to consider retirement.

Previous reports did in𝓀dic𝔉ate that Mir had reached out to assess Gresini’s potential interest.

British ꧅rider Dixon was linked to Gresini, along with fellow Moto2 up-and-comer Tony Arboli𝓀no, until both men penned new deals to stay where they are.

However, according to Hodgson, tꦯhat won’t necessarily end Dixon’s dream of stepping into the premier class.