Luca Marini replacement: "Not just Fermin Aldeguer - Tony Arbolino, others” in VR46 MotoGP contention
While coy about the status of Marini’s much-rumoured Repsol Honda deal, Salucci ♋currently has his hands full trying to find a late replacement for the Italian.
Salucci confirmed that Gresini’s Fabio di Giannantonio is not on their t𒆙arget list and that they are in talks with Moto2 star Fermin Aldeguer.
However, Salucci added th💝at Aldeguer is just one of several Moto2 riders now under consideration by Valentino Rossi’s tꦗeam.
Marc VDS star Tony Arbolino, title runner-up to Pedro Acosta this season and the subject of MotoGP rumours earlier in the year, was named as among the other conten🦂ders to join Marco Bezzecchi on a VR46 Ducati next year.
“Luca next year is not with us, but I don't know where is the ‘level’ of his [Honda] contract,”🍰 Salucci told Dorna’s Jack Appleyard on Friday at Lusail.
“Speaking about my team, for su🐓re the first option [to replace Marini] - unfortunately for Fabio - is not di Giannantonio. We want a young rider from Moto2 but now we have two or three names and in the next days we will decide.”
Salucci added: “When you lose one rider, like Marini, in November, you need to go to Moto2 and for sureཧ you have [to pay] some penalty [to release a Moto2 rider].
“We’ll see what happens. We've discussed not just Aldeguer but also oꦬther teams and we will need to pay something for sure. But it's our work, our sport.”
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Asked if Arboli🐽no one of the other riders, Salucci replied:
"I like Tony Arbolino. He’s very good, very young. He's Italian. For sure he’s one of the na🔜mes also.
“But not just Tony, not just Fermin. We have some others that are very fast t𝔉hat I like.
"We’ll see in the next few days.”
However, VR46 team manager Pablo Nieto reportedly told DAZN that Aldeguer is stil🥃l "the option we like tꦍhe most".
Despite the short timeframe to find Marini's&nbꦿsp;replacement in time for the Valencia test, Salucci felt confident it w💫as only an "extreme possibility" of Bezzecchi riding alone at the November 28 test.
P♉eter has been in🐻 the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
