‘Ducati more interested in Marco Bezzecchi than Luca Marini’ | Valentino Rossi’s VR46 open to Yamaha deal

The Mooney VR46 team’s impressive rise this season means they have some big decisions ahead.
Marco Bezzecchi, Valentino Rossi, MotoGP, Spanish MotoGP sprint race, 29 April
Marco Bezzecchi, Valentino Rossi, MotoGP, Spanish MotoGP sprint race, 29 April

The noise around title challenger 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marco Bezzecchi’s future, keeping 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini happy as well, plus the looming prospect 🤡of choosing to stick with Ducati﷽ or find a new bike in 2025.

Bezzecchi, third in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP standings, has been linked with a mo🔯ve to Pramac but could receive a factory-spec bike if he stays with Mooney VR46 next season.

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“We would like tech support for both riders but they are more interested in Be🧸zzecchi,” team manager Uccio Salucci told . 

“So the ide🔯a would be to get a little more factory support for Marco. 

“Then it i🌊s also a matter of deciding for Marini, but these d🌠ecisions lie more with Ducati than with us.

“There is no real deadline [to confirm the 2024 rider line-up]. In the case of Be🐲zzecchi, we have an option to redeem inside Misan💙o. 

“But I believe that if everything goes well, he wants to stay with us and there𝕴 are ☂no surprises, we might redeem them sooner.

“And in the case of Luca, I would like to ext🤪end the contract. 

“From my point of view we will do that shortly, but I have to talk to the VR46 Riders Academy, so his managem𝕴ent, and to him. 

“We've already talked a few times and it's going in the direction that we want to continue together – with both rꦰiders. Then we will seeꦏ what will happen.”

Luca Marini, MotoGP, Dutch MotoGP, 24 June
Luca Marini, MotoGP, Dutch MotoGP, 24 June

Bezzecchi’s first premier class victory was also a first for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valentino Rossi’s MotoGP team, a major milestone.

He is a key piece in the 2024 rider line-up jigsaw, with other manཧufacturers awaiting his fate before deciding their own options🐼.

“I've always said that our goal is for our riders to be promoted to a ꦚfactory team one day,” S💎alucci said. 

“Because that would mean that we did a good 🥃job. 

“So if I w🔯er🌠e to lose him to a factory team I'd just be happy for him, honestly.

“It's also a friendship, a bit like being an older brother. We'🍸ve been working with Bezzecchi since he was 15, so almost ten years.”

The bigger picture surrounding the future of the Mooney VR46 team is wh❀ich bike they opt f🍒or in 2025.

They are contracted to Ducati until the end of 2024,💯 an alliance which has clearly benefited their riders in terms of their machinery.

But Rossi’s personal link to Yamaha means the Japanese manufacturer, currently at a lo𝔍w ebb and seeking rejuvenation, could emerge as an option.

Rossi recently signed a deal to act 𒊎as a♏ Yamaha brand ambassador.

“For 2024 for sure, we have a contract with Ducati, as I have repeatedly emphasised - even when noboᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚdy wanted to believe it,” 🌌Salucci said. “Then, of course, for 2025 we will look around and choose the bike that best suits our project.”

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