Ducati’s stance on this year’s MotoGP title bܫattle - involving Jorge Martin and Marc Marquez - was debated on the🐷 Crash MotoGP podcast.

The dominant manufacturer in the premier class caused a sensation this week by picking Marquez for their 2025 factory🌸 team.

It had seeme𓆉d, days earlier, that Martin was set to be appointed until Marquez rejected Ducati’s idea 🍸of riding for Pramac.

MotoGP returns in two weeks at Assen with the futures of its bi✃ggest staꦍrs finally settled.

But Ducati will now face questions about how their deal with four of their riders in the current championship battle, knowing Maཧrtin and Enea Bastia✨nini will leave at the end of the year.

Podcast host Jordan Moreland asked: “Does this c൲hange the dynamic for Ducati not giving [Martin] support?

“Does it change the relationship with Marquez?

“Now, he’s probably pressing Ducati to say ‘I want upg♈rades on this ‘23 to make it the latest s🐬pec’.”

Peter McLar⭕en re൲ported: “All of those questions now come into the mix.

“If Martin ha🦩s a bad weekend, or if he’s st൲ruggling, people will be saying ‘is he getting all the help that maybe he should be getting? Given that, if he wins, he takes the #1 to a rival Italian factory’.

“Let’s not forget that. It’s not just🐎 another factory. It’s another Italian fac📖tory!

“At the same time you’ve got Marquez saying ‘come on guys, help me out, support me, I am your factory rider next year, if I win or Pecco wins it stays within Ducati ne꧟xt year’.

“All of those things… it will be a really tough balancing act for Ducati to make sure everybody is treated as well as they caꦦn be.”

Pramac’s Martin is lead♐ing the MotoGP standings after seven rounds.

He is 18 points ahead of Pecco Bagnaia, the factor✅y Ducati rider and reigning champion.

Martin is🎃 35 p💎oints clear of third-placed Gresini rider Marquez.

Fourth-placed Enea Bastianini i🌜s 54 points off the top.