Valentino Rossi and Marco Bezzecchi get their wish; Ducati agree to key request
There is an “agreement in sight” between Ducati and the Mooney 𓆉VR46 team to equip Bezzecchi with 🀅an official Desmosedici in the 2024 MotoGP season, report.
Bezzecchi is “satisfied, both in terms of technical treatment and salary”, the report st❀ates.
“A long series of contacts” between Gigi Dall’Igna, the Ducati Corse general manager, and Uccio Salucci, the Mooney VR46 t🍸eam꧒ boss, resulted in a deal.
Bezzecchi will therefore remain with Rossi’🎃s team rather than seek a better bike elsewhere.
The young Italian is enjoying a breakthrough season and remains a genuineဣ contender for this season’s MotoGP championship.
He won his first-e🌼ver grand prix in Argentina, also a first for Rossi’s team, and has since won at Le Mans too.
Bezzecchi previously led the MotoGP standings but, a✅t the summer break, he is third behind factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaౠia and Pramac’s Jorge Martin (both of whom profit from a 2023-spec Desmosedici).
His explosive season led to demands for🍨 better machinery, and a potential switch to Pramac.
Bezzecchi was also ꦅlinked briefly to a move to Yamaha.
But he has always been keen to remain with the Mooney VR46 ♛set-up, and now is due to receive th🥂e major boost that he hoped for.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sportsﷺ, to football, to F1.
