Marquez shone on his Ducati debut💜 at the postseason Valencia test, heightening excitement🌳 for his arrival at Gresini Racing for the 2024 MotoGP season.

He has penned a one-year d🗹eal meaning all options - now including the factory Ducati seat - are open for 2025.

“Since we haven’t yet defined the riders f꧅or 2025, I would say without problems that Marc is one of the contenders 🌳for the official team,” sporting director Paolo Ciabatti told .

“O🃏bviously there is an i🦹mportant aspect to underline, which is that from an economic point of view we are no longer in the pre-covid period, where a rider like him can earn super-millionaire wages.”

Marquez has previously told us 🉐exclusively that rumours he would ride at Gresini for free were wrong.

But it 🍌now seems he stands little chance of earning the type of money from Ducati that he was paid at Honda.

Marquez ended his lucrative Honda contract a year early i﷽n order to go to Ducati next season.

That Honda deal - a four-year contract signed in 2020 - was the largest on this season’s grid🔯, and one of the biggest ever.

But Mar🥂quez’s Ducati contract, and the contracts of most MotoGP riders, will expire next year to create enormous market opportunities for the 2025 season.

Ducati are at risk of losing Marquez - or꧃ one of their other stars ♋- amid the chase for the best bike which cannot appease everyone.

“Of course,” Ciabatti admitted. “The risk exists and we are well awar♔e of it.

“I think, for example, of Jorge Martin. A talent like him, if he doesn’t go to the official team, could certainly arouse interest from other manufactur🌞ers.

“But he is not the only one.”

For now, the Marquez-Ducati allianceᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ is just for a single season.

He has ended 11 wonderf❀ul years at Honda in the hope of a machine which can spur him on to win a ninth world championship🌜.

“We a🎐ll know Marc’s talent, there is very little to say about it,” Ciꦑabatti said.

“In my opinion, given the result𓄧s obtained in this last season by Ducati, with three bikes in fronꦓt of everyone, there was no need to add a further load.

“At the same time, as a Ducati man, it is the source of great pride fo♔r the company to see a champion lဣike Marc on a Desmosedici.

“For us it is further recognition of t🌠he work that we are doing, as is the fact that Ducati is currently the best bike in MotoGP.

“Marc is obviously a winner, and his world titles ꦕsay so, therefore if he chooses Ducati it is because he wants to win again.

“For all of us, it will be something new, and a new situation to manage🌳.”