Is the 2025 Ducati factory bike slipping away from Marc Marquez?
“There is no🅺thing left to🅠 prove. I think everything is clear for Ducati"
The three adversaries in the hunt for the 2025 factory Ducati bike know that this wee💎kend in Le Mans is a crucial moment💟.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini, who is currently in possession of the coveted red machine, Gresini’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez and Pramac’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin are under consideration.
Martin won the sprint race on Saturday at the French 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP and will start Sunday’s grand 🦋prix from pole position.
The words spoken on Saturday are perhaps telling that the riders the𝄹mselves understand Martin is leading the way to ܫget the nod from Ducati bosses.
“For now the best signal is being given by Martin, he's going very fast,” confess🧸ed Marquez, who turned 13th o🥃n the grid to a P2 finish, to
Martin said: “There is nothing left to prove.
“I think everything is clear for Ducati too, and we hope that everything goes as we w🙈ant."
Bastianini’s veteran manager Carlo Pernat🃏, an influential voice in Ducati’s ear, appeared to concede that his rider co𒁃uld lose his spot.
"There is still hope for Enea, also because nothing has been announced y🌸et,” Pernat said on Saturday.
“But it is clear that for the f✨uture we need a good race, we need to finish in the top places.”
Bastianini was fourth in Saturday’s sprint race. The irony for him is that his second season as a factory rider - and, to be fair, his first season without a terr🦋ible injury - is going very well.
Bastianini is second in the MotoGP standings, a point ahead of hi🍰s teammate and reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia.
Bagnaia cras🉐hed and did no🍌t finish the sprint in Le Mans.
Martin leads the champi💎onship, 28 poin🐷ts in front of Bastianini, before Sunday's grand prix in France.
Ducati general manager Gigi Dall’Igna suggested that the decision over Bagnaia’s 2025 teammate will be finalised this month, by the Mugello🍨 round.
His comment about “history” playi🐷ng a part in his decision-making was widely interp🐻reted as a boost for Marquez, the eight-time world champion.
But, on-track, Martin is making it clear that he is the mꦜan in form.
Time is runningꦗ out for Marquez or Bastianini to make their point in a race…
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything fꦚrom American sports, to 🃏football, to F1.
