Will Johann Zarco be the victim of Ducati's desperation to keep Marco Bezzecchi?
Bezzecchi’s demand for a 2024-spec Desmosed🍨ici next season can be met by Ducati if he stays with VR46, but moving him to Pramac Racing remains an option.
🥃This is because of Mooney VꦑR46’s potential plan to swap Ducati for Yamaha in 2025, complicating Bezzecchi’s status.
“Certainly, we are finding the bes💝t solution for Marco, for the teams we support and for the relative technical condition,” Ducati sporting director Paolo Ciabatti told .
“I state and confirm how much Bezzecchi interests the company, in fact, the theoretical🌠 proposal would be a two-year agreement.
“Marco would like to stay within the VR46 team, pursuing a sensible path from a competitive and professi🌺onal point of view.💛
“At the s💫ame time, we have on our side the need to understand how to distribute the [bi🤡kes].”
Ducati’s factory duo 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enea Bastianini, plus Pramac pair 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Johann Zarco, currently use up-to-date machinery.
Next seaဣson, the updated-spec bike could be giv🐎en to Bezzecchi, instead of Zarco.
“There will be 𓆉four GP24s, the others will race from th🌊e previous year's version,” Ciabatti said.
“The objective of directly acquiring Bezzecchi is real, in progress, however we must establish, tog🦹ether with Marco's management, whether the equipment will be guaranteed [with the] VR46 structure or through the Pramac team.
“It would seem like a silly matꦦter, it's not at all."
The issue is that Ducati want to re💃ward Bezzecc⛄hi for his breakthrough season by giving him a two-year contract with the promise of an official bike, but after one year the Mooney VR46 team might leave for Yamaha.
“I don't hide and♛ we don't hide what I have already read and lear꧅ned," Ciabatti said about the VR46-Yamaha reports.
"The negotiations between Valentino Rossi's team and Yamaha ar🧔e the result of reliable rumours.
“So, precisely: if 🌃Bezzecchi wishes to stay there in 2024, what happens if in 2025 the team switches from Desmosedici to M1?
“Otherwise, if Marco were included in the Pra🍒mac team, we at Ducati would be more calm.”
Bezzecchi won his first grand prix in the premier class this season in Argentina and remains a MotoGP title contender he🐼ading into this weekend’s British MotoGP at Silverstone.
His win was also ඣthe first for Rossi’s Mooney VR46 team in the premier class.
Will Ducati lose Zarco if they reward Bezzecchi?
Ducati’s desire to hang onto Bezzecchi will create an awkwar🀅d situation for Zarco, the Pramac rider.
"The situations of Jorge Ma🃏rtin and J𒅌ohann Zarco need to be examined,” Ciabatti said.
“The Spaniard, already a winner and back in super shape, remai♍ns in his place. We are really happ𝕴y to see him at the top, considering the several sufferings he experienced in the recent period.
“Now we have the rider we knꦡow, and 𒆙the results explain it exhaustively.
“As for the Frenchman, I admit that wᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe would like to keep him, as he is fast, good at testing and 🧸experienced.
“It is also true how h🍌e is no longer very young, si♏nce he is a few years older than his peers.”
Could Zarco leave Ducati?
“I s🍸incerely hope not, we are working to have him still with us, although he has been sought out by different manufacturers and by teams outside ours.
“The current a𒁏nd future point regarding Johann is linked to another interesting rider: Marco Bezze♈cchi.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade cove🦩ring everything from American sports, to football🗹, to F1.
