Marco Bezzecchi makes it clear to Ducati - he’s dreaming of a factory seat

Mooney VR46 rider Bezzecchi has shone brightly in the 2023 season, previously leading the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP standings and now sitting a solitary point behind Francesco Bagna🎃ia.
He claimed his own, and his team’s, fir𒉰st grand prix victory in Argentina but the rumblings have started about his future within the Ducati set-up.
“This year, we come to the 💃end of the contract,” he s𝓡aid.
“It never came in my mind♑ because I feel so good in this team.
“The factory teams are a step ahead in MotoGP, tღhis is normal.
“I dr✅eam to be a world champion. If I am able to win in this team, I don’t care if it’s factory or not.
“But to be in the factory [team]? That is something realᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚly nice.”

Uccio Salucci, the Mooney VR46 team boss, has previously made it clear that Be🐟zzecchi can no longeไr receive a bike and a salary of a satellite rider, after this year’s success.
"I have already spoken to Gigi Dall’Igna a couple of times and I told him that I would like him to stay in VR46 with a facꦰtory bike and a direct contract with Ducati,” Salucci said.
Bezzecchi is in the final year of his contract but could yet end 2023 as a fi💖rst-time MotoGP champion.
His great friend, anꦡd current incumbent of the factory Ducati𝕴 seat, Francesco Bagnaia is the reigning champion and favourite to retain the title.
“I am trying to beat 𝐆him, but 🅷to beat everyone,” Bezzecchi said.
“Sometimes I can beat him, sometimes not.
“My approach to races has paid off but I won’t put more pressureℱ on. I try to do 💞the best weekend-by-weekend and learn from the more competitive guys.”

Bezzecchi, Bagna✨ia, Luca Marini and Franco Morbidelli make up the four gra💛duates of Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Academy on the current grid.
All four have impressed this se🌞ason at variou🍎s stages representing a great success for Rossi’s academy.
“It was a dream for Vale to see four riders from the VR4🃏6 Academy, he was very happy,” Bezzecchi said.
“He gives us advice but also leaves u🙈s to our experience.
🌱“If he sees something go worse, he says 🌳something. Otherwise, he says nothing.”
The VR46 set-up is ready for its high-profileಌ riders to potentially battle on the track.
“There were changes inside to manage these situations,” Bezzecchi said. “The academy made a big step. They helped us before but, now, we hav💫e more support.
“They take care of everything we need.”
Bez🍌zecchi is at the disadvantage in the title race of facing the reigning 𒈔champion.
However, i🅰t is the same obꦰstacle that Bagnaia overcame last year against Fabio Quartararo.
“The pressure on me is normal,” Bezzecchi said. “The target of the season was to win a race, and I have ma🐈de it.
“The target now is to win another one, not to think about the championship🦩.
“Pecco has thought about the championship since the winter test because he is al🌊ready the champion, so it’s a different situation.”
He said about his earliest days in MotoGP: “I was a bit scared, hon🐈estly, arriving in MotoGP as a rival of Franco, Pecco and Luca.
“I have a good friendship wit🌌h them and I ꧒didn’t want to throw it in the rubbish.
“Me and Pecco have a close relat🧜ionship. We try to mot🃏ivate each other in every training session.
“I hope it will sta🍷y like this until the end of our careers. Our friendship is good so it would be bad if it ended because of racing.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from A༺merican sports, to football, to F1.