A one-year deal with Gresini means that Marquez, along with most of the current MotoGP grid,🔯 will become a free agent ♔at the end of 2024 and therefore is able to consider his next move by this summer.

Marquez shone when testing his Ducati fღor the first time and has been tipped to become hot property this summer, with Ducati already facing a battle to keep him long-term.

♊“[In 2023] the market ended very late,” veteran rider🐟 manager Alberto Vergani told . “But in 2024, I’m afraid they’ll want to battle it out early, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.

“Marc will be the co꧂rnerstone of everything. He can go to KTM, return to Honda, stay w🥃ith Ducati.

“In my opinion, these are the scenarios.

“KTM will do everything to have another team. There are various teams that can offer themselves, like VR46 or Cecchinello [LCR]. Since Marc is expiring, they c꧂ould be betting big on him.”

Before rumours about a switch from Honda tಞo Gresini started last summer, Marquezও seemingly flirted with KTM.

Ahead of the Austrian MotoGP, the manufactဣurer’s h♔ome race, he appeared on TV alongside major KTM bosses and was talking up their potential.

Vergani also wondered: “Then there’s Honda. All that well-wishing when they🍸 said goodbye makes me think there is something going on, like a possibl🐼e return.

“If Marc were to have a winning seas♒on then Ducati wou🐲ld have to bring him onto the official team.

“Also bꦰecau💮se there are sponsors involved who will push in that direction.

“Knowing Gigi Dall’Igna, I💮 don’t think he will want to lose a champion like Mar🃏c after just one season on the Desmosedici, with all the competition willing to take him on, like KTM and Honda.

“I’ll tell you a back-story. When rumours about Marc with Gresini began to circulate, I wrote to☂ [Ducati CEO] Claudio Domenicali telling him: ‘Snatch him up right away, you can’t let him get away!’”

Marquez’s futཧure will h💛ave a major knock-on impact throughout the grid.

Soဣmebody, somewhere, will have their pathway blocked and their wish denied by whatever move Marquez opts to make.

“If Jorge M▨artin doesn’t go to the factory team, I think he will leave,” Vergani considered. 

“He has made that clear with his lat𓆏est statements. Jorge could go to KTM or Honda. 

“Enea Bastianini could go to Aprilia. That woul🌠dn’t be bad for him at all. But Enea must send a signal after last season’s difficulties.”