Stunning revelation that Ducati may put Jorge Martin in 2024 factory team

Jorge Martin could reportedly still be placed by Ducati in their 2024 factory team.
Stunning revelation that Ducati may put Jorge Martin in 2024 factory team

The Pramac Racing rider is 13 points behind championship leader Francesco Bagnaia in a tooth-and-nail scrap for the 2023 MotoGP title.

Mar💙tin is in red-hot form, winning both races at the weekend’s Thailand MotoGP.

And his blistering speed could earn him a promotion into Ducati’s top team, alongside Bagnaia,✃ next season, report.

The Spanish newspaper claimed they “can guarantee from the paddock of the Chang International Circuit that the door⛄s of the official Ducati box are openinꦰg again to Jorge Martin”.

Fonsi Nieto, Martin’s technician, told AS when asked if he ex🌠pected a move to the factory team: “ꦐI could give you many answers. It makes me sad and it makes me happy. 

“It makes me very s꧑ad on the one hand and I am 100 percent happy on the other, but if it is for that reason, because we are world champions, the team would be very happy to see that. And if he doesn't win, too. 

“Right now Jorge is a rider who deserves any bike𒁃 he wants from the🍃 paddock. 

“Right now I think he i♏s the rider that the factories want the most.”

Pramac boss Gino Borsoi, asked if he exp𒈔ects to lose Martin, replied: “I don't know what will happen, but if it happens it will be because ꦦhe deserves it.”

A year ago, Martin was overlooked for a pro☂motion to the factory team in favour of Enea Bastianini.

Bastianini, with Gresini in 2022, had won the s💧econd-most amount of races behind championꩲ Bagnaia.

But Bastianini’s debꦐut year as a factory rider has been savaged by injur🧸y, the first of which was suffered on the opening weekend.

Bastianini may have initiall꧅y signed for two years but🗹 Ducati reportedly want to strengthen their factory team while Martin is showing the best form of his his career.

The MotoGP seasonꩲ has three rounds remaining, starting in Malaysia in two weeks.

Although Ducati’s 2024 MotoGP rider line-up appeared guaranteed 🧸- including the addition of Marc Marquez on a year-old machine for Gresini - it seems there may still be time for one major shake-up.

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