Marc Marquez and Ducati line-up theory shared: “The way to keep everyone happy…”
Du🐓cati told of a way to retain all their star riders for⛦ 2025

A suggestion of how to “keep everyone happy” in the 🌸debate over Marc Marquez’s future has been shared.
Gresini’s Marquez𒈔 and Pramac’s Jorge Martin are both bidding to replace Enea Bastianini in the factory Ducati team.
Marquez rides a GP23 th♚is year but has made it clear that he wants the latest spec machinery in 2025.
“I personally think the way to keep ever🎐yone happy - not everyone, but the majority - is that Marc gets a factory bike at Gresini,” Simon Crafar said from the French MotoGP paddock in Le Mans.
“And he doesn’t have to change Red Bull.”
Marqꦰuez is sponsored by Red Bull, a rival energy drink to Monste🥀r who work alongside Ducati.
Crafar c🦩ontinued: “The big question is Enea and Jorge. What will happen there?
“Clearly Jorge doesn’t know.”
Martin won the French MotoGP tܫo extend his championship lead, while Marquez took P2 after a brilliant late overtake of Francesco Bagnaia.
“We saw vintage Marquez in 🎃the sprint and in the race. Absolutely fantastic,” Crafar said.
“The riding, then the overtake on Pecco, was wonderful.
“Pecco is such a good rider and 🌳that’s not an easy place.
“What he did was brake at an angle, at the corner. It’s a shorter route. You can brake just as hard on a slight angle, as you can u🎶p and🧔 down. That’s what he did.
“He w𒈔ent straight there to beat Pecco to the point.
“W𝓀hen you arrive it’s on the wrong angle. You’ve got to do a bit of extra turning on the middle.
“He got it stopped, got it turned, beautifully. Super skill to pull it off against a ri🦩der who is so fast.
“Ma🌞rc is prepared to go to a𝓀nother level on everything, including on overtakes.”
Marquez has declared that his adaptation from Hond꧟a to Ducati is🐻 finished.
Although a first win for the Italian manufacturer eludes him, he has frequently been on the podium in both sprints and🉐 grands prix this season.
Marqueꦏz is 40 points off championship leader Marti𒁏n after five rounds.
“It has been harder,” Crafar said about Marq♏uez taming his new bike.
“He warned at the b♍eginning of the year that it wasn’t going to be eas⛄y.
“He has told us the numbers of where he aims at.
“Now, you can see he’s happy becaꦏuse he’s got the speed of the win♔ner.
“If he got past Diggia easier, quicker, cleaner then he’d have had a couple๊ of laps of having a breather, to get the lactic acid out and the tyre temperature down, ready to have a go.
“To have that speed? That’s why he is so happy.”

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