Ducati Corse sporting director Mauro Grassilli says the factory was ‘not ready’ but also ‘not surprised’ by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez publicly turning down the option of a move to Pramac Ducati for the 2025 MotoGP season.

Rumours on the eve of the Italian GP suggest Pramac's current title lead🧔er Jorge Martin has won the battle to become Francesco Bagnaia’s future team-mate and that Marquez would be promoted to factory machinery at Pramac…

But the eight-time w🥀orldౠ champion, now riding a 2023 machine at Gresini, has other ideas, stating: “Pramac is not an option for me.”

“It is a very delicate moment of the season. Each rider tries to make the best strategy for himself and for his future. [Marc's] stateme🍒nt therefore did not surprise us and we๊ take note of it," Grassilli told . 

"Pramac is a formidable team, it isജ an official bike, managed by professionals."

Grassilli added: "We were not ready for these declarations [by Marquez], but we are not ready for many other declarations: we cannot always kno🔯w what the riders are saying, who are special and super intelligent people and must say what they feel at that particular moment."&꧋nbsp; 

Marquez spelt out on Thursday that the only Ducati options he would consider are either the factory team or🍸 staying at Gresini, with a factory bike.

The problem for Marquez is that Pramac looks set to turn down Yamaha’s advances and renew with Ducati for 2025, thus keeping its factory-spec supply which could otherwise be♈ re💟distributed to Gresini and perhaps VR46.

“I expect Paolo Campinoti and Prama🌞c to remain with us for at least the next two years,” said Grassilli.

Just how exclusive the Pramac-factory Ducati deal is remains unclℱear.

But if Marquez l🌜oses out to Martin at the official team and doesn’t ꦗget a factory bike at Gresini, speculation suggests he could switch to KTM.

Grassilli left the door open to some kind of compromise if a𒅌 Marquez-Pramac deal is out of the question:

"Certainly [Marc Marquez] going to Pramac was one of the different analyses [we have considered], but not the only one. We ar⛎e still evalu🅷ating many other hypotheses."

Ducati has ruled out officially announcing Bagnaia's 2025 team-mate during the Mug🌳ello weekend.