Marco Bezzecchi makes it clear to Ducati - he’s dreaming of a factory seat

Mooney VR46 rider Bezzecchi has shone brightly in the 2023 season, previously leading the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings and🐟 now sitti♌ng a solitary point behind Francesco Bagnaia.
He claimed his own, and his team’🔜s, first grand prix victory in Argentina but the rumblings have started about his future within the Ducati set-up.
“This year, we come to the end of the co💛ntract,” he said.
“It never ca𝓀me in my mind because I feel so good in this team.
“The factory t꧃eams are a step ahead in MotoGP, this is normal.
“I dream to be a world championဣ🏅. If I am able to win in this team, I don’t care if it’s factory or not.
“𒉰But to be in the factory [team]? That is something real🔯ly nice.”

Uccio Salucci, the Mooney VR46 team boss, has previously made it clear that Bezzecchi can no longer receivℱe a bike and a salary of a satellite rider, after this year’s success.
"I🃏 have 🗹already spoken to Gigi Dall’Igna a couple of times and I told him that I would like him to stay in VR46 with a factory bike and a direct contract with Ducati,” Salucci said.
Bezzecchi is in the final year of his contrac🌞t but could yet end 2023 as a first-time MotoGP champion.
His great friend, and cu♕rrent incumbent of the factory D🐭ucati seat, Francesco Bagnaia is the reigning champion and favourite to retain the title.
“I am trying to beat him, but to beat everyone,” Bezzecchi said💃.
“Sometimes I can beat him, sometimes not.
“My approach to races hasಞ paid off but I won’t put more pressure on. I try to do the best weekend-by-weekend and learn from the more competitive guys.”

Bezzecchi, Bagnaia, Luca Marini and Franco Morbidelli make up the four graduates of Valentinoಌ Rossi’s VR46 Academy on the current grid.
All four have impressed this season at various stage🐻s representing a great success for Rossi’s academy.
“It꧟ was a dream for Vale to see four riders from the VR46 Academy, he was very happy,” Bezzecchi said.
“He gives us a༒dvice but also leaves us to our experience.
“If he sees something go worse, he says 💫something. Otherwise, he says nothing.”
T👍he VR46 set-up is ready for its high-profile riders to potentially battle on the tracওk.
“There were changes♍ inside to manage these situations,” Bezzecchi said. “The a🦩cademy made a big step. They helped us before but, now, we have more support.
“They take care of everything we need.”
Bezzecchi is at💝 the disadvantage in the title race ꧅of facing the reigning champion.
However, it is the same ob🅘stacle that Bagnaia overcame last year against F♋abio Quartararo.
“The pressure on me is normal,” Bezzecchi said. “The target of the seas꧟on was to win a 🦄race, and I have made it.
“The target now is to win another one, not to think about the 𝓡championship.
“Pecco has thought ꦏabout the championship since the winter test because he𝓰 is already the champion, so it’s a different situation.”
He said about ꧙his earliest days in MotoGP: “I was a bit scared, honestly, arriving in MotoGP as a rival of Franco, Pecco and Luca.
“I have a good friendship 🥂with them and I didn’t want to throw it in the rubbish.
“Me and Pecco have ♊a close relationship. We try to motivate each other in every tr🌺aining session.
“I hope it wi🥀ll stay like this until the end of our careers. Our friendship is good so it would be bad if it ended because of racin🎶g.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American spor🌄ts, to football, to F1.