Marini considered for Pramac after Bezzecchi rejection

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi rejected🔥 the chance to swap his VR46 team for Pramac next season, and therefore tr♎ade a year-old bike for the latest spec.

“I'm not surprised,” sporting directoꦍr Ciabatti told .

“We thought h♛e deserved an official bike, in 2024 we will have four official bike🍌s by contract. 

“We had in 2022 t𝔍o have🌌 five official bikes but we realised that had excessive costs. 

“The only opportunity for Bez to have an official bike was to place hꦿim in Pramac, with Matteo Flamigni. 

“However, knowing Marco's relationship with the VR46 team, I understood his choi🅠ce very well. I understand and appreciate it.”

That left Ducati needing a Plan B for Pramac.

They plumped for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Morbidelli, w✱ho had lost his Yamaha seat, but not without other co𒁃nsiderations.

“We did a series of evaluations, and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini was also there, then the decision shifted to ⛎Franco🅘,” Ciabatti said.

Bastianini struggled 'more than we expected'

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini has been backed to con♊tinue as a factory rider despite an injury-ravaged first year wearing red.

“He did an important job last year, four victories,🐟” Ciabatti remembere♚d.

“This year he struggled a little, a little more than we expected, already in the🌱 tests, to adapt to a different working environment. 

“Let's not forget that he had to c🌟hange crew chief because Al꧂berto Giribuola decided to go to KTM.

“However, it is a season in which all the things that could g💖o wrong did go wrong. 

“But in Indonesia, in the ra✅ce, he set the fastest lap and so I th🌳ink we are on the right track."

'Difficult to say how competitive Iannone will be'

Ducati have also opted to place 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Iannone into their Go Eleven WorldSBK team in 2024.

Iannone, the former Ducati MotoGP rider, will conclu🔜de a four-year doping ban in December.

“Operation defined in recent weeks,” Ciabatti said.&nꦛbsp;

“I'm very pleased, his desire shows how much he still wants to race, but four years of inactivity is a long time, so it's𝄹 difficult to say how com🐓petitive he will be. 

“I think it will take some t꧃ime but then he will be among the protagoni🤡sts. 

“He is still relati🍸vely young, given how much Alvaro Bautista is doing.”

Factory vs Pramac team orders?

The burning question is whether Ciabatti and co will influence the MotoGP title fight between factory rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia and Pramac’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin.

“If Ducati wღere worried about making another team win, they wouldn't give Pramac and Jorge Martin the same type of bike and evolutions,” Ciabatti insisted. 

“The most attentive will have noti😼ced that in recent races there are fins mounted on the front fo𓄧rks. Which bikes have it? Those of Bagnaia and Martin.

"They have exactly the same technical package an𒊎d seven people from Ducati work ther꧒e in Pramac. 

“I understand that those who conspire don't believe it, but♐ that's how it is. 

“We decided to put the Lenovo and Pramac riders in the same situation, right or wrong, may the bestꩵ win. 

“We consider them two official team🍌s, it is thanks to Pramac that we have brought several riders on official motorbikes.”