MotoGP rookie 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fermin Aldeguer has revealed he was offered a move to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:VR46 squad for 2024, butꦬ was persuaded by Ducati to defer his debut by a year.

Aldeguer was one of the paddock’s h🐼ottest propꦗerties in 2023 as he won five races to challenge for the Moto2 crown in just his second full season in the class.

The 19-year-old was signed to a fa🃏ctory Ducati deal prior to the start of 2024 to step up to MotoGP this season.

Initially it was thought he would join the Pramac squad on a GP25, though these plans changed when 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez refused a works bike at the team and it ultimately ditched Ducati for💖 Yamaha machinery.

Aldeguer was eventually placed at Gresini, though on a year-old biไke for his 2025 rookie campaign. He finished his debut race in Thailand in 13th.

In a podcast with LS2 Europe, he reveals he was offered a chance to come to MotoGP in 2024 with Valentino Rossi’s VR46 team but was persuaded by Duc🔯ati to spend one more year in Moto2 with the view to signing a factory contract.

“In 2023 they offered ༺me the chance to move up to MotoGP with the VR46 team to start in 2024,” he said.

“ꦗI didn’t think twice. But they kn🍸ew how to control both me and my manager.

“They offered us something betꦐter, which was to continue for another year in Moto2 and have an official con🦂tract with Ducati for 2025.”

He ad𒀰ded: “Tꩲhey told me to stay calm, that in January 2024 I would sign with Ducati to become a MotoGP rider in 2025.

“We sig♐ned it and I started the🎀 year more relaxed, although with the pressure of having to be the Moto2 champion.

“It was the only chance I had and I was 𓄧the favourite.”

Aldeguer struggled in 2024 with tꦫhe Speed Up team, the switch to Pirelli tyres proving a major hurdle as h🍃e managed just three wins on his way to fifth in the standings.

“I wasn’t champion because I wasn’t c𓆉onsis🌠tent; the championship isn’t won by the fastest.”

How Fermin Aldeguer to VR46 would have been bad news for one MotoGP winner

T♉his revelation from Aldeguer leads to an interesting look into an alternate reality for MotoGP.

Had he accepted the VR46 move for 2024, he would have been placed alongside 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marco Bezzecchi as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini was chosen to take the factory Honda seat vacated by Marc ⛄Marquez.

With t🌺he grid lockedﷺ up beyond Honda and VR46 by the end of the 2023 season, one rider faced an uncertain future having just come into top form as his Gresini seat was given to Marquez.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Di Giannantonio went on a hot run in the latter꧙ stages 🌜of the season that would see him score a maiden victory at the Qatar Grand Prix for Gresini.

Former Dꦫucati boss Paolo Ciabatti said after this it was “unacceptable” that Di Giannantonio could be left without a ride 🤡for the 2024 season.

Briefly in the picture for the factory Hond🦋a seat that♔ would go to Marini, Di Giannantonio’s final option to save his career was the opening at VR46.

Had Aldeguer signed with VR46 instead, Di Giannantonio would have been left on the sidelines ♌for 2024.

As it happens, Di Giannantonio’s lifeline at VR46 has proven to be fruitful as he impressed on the difficult GP23 last year with consistent top eight performances🤪 to earn a factory contract at Rossi’s team for 2025 and 2026.