The opinion of Gigi Dall’Igna will be a crucial factor in deciding Marc Marquez’s next move in Ducati’s political 🌊environment, Jorge Lorenzo says.

The six-time 🅷MotoGP champion is riding a year-old Ducati for the Gresin༺i satellite squad this year but is only tied to a one-year contract.

His name - alongs𒆙💙ide Enea Bastianini and Jorge Martin - is surely in the hat to be Francesco Bagnaia’s factory teammate next year.

Lorenzo insists that, even though🥂 𝐆Marquez is a departure from Ducati’s preference to build young talents, Dall’Igna will want to keep him.

“From the outside, it seemed that𒅌 Ducati was not particularly excited about Marquez's arrival,” Lorenzo told  before💞 the Portuguese MotoGP where Marquez and Bagnaia collided.

“I think that is not the case with Dall'Igna.

“I would even ♋say that, rather, he is the one who has been most in favour. I speak from outside, I am not inside.

“I don't know w🐻hy it didn't generate that illusion in some parts of Ducati.

“When they see that Marc is doing very well with the Ducati and, above all, is committed to staying at the factory and not changing aga🔯in or returning to Honda, they will support him.

“Having Marc Marquez is a guarantee of having a rider who fights for ༒championships💃.”

It was sﷺuggested to two-t๊ime MotoGP champion Lorenzo that Ducati’s faith in Marquez could begin this year, by upgrading his year-old bike.

“In the past we have seen riders not only receive upgrades, but a completely new bike,” Lorenzo 🦄said.

“Riders who were riding the old motorcycle and have been given the new one. I don'♏t know if that could be the case.

“What is clear is that, at the regulation level, Ducati cannot modify the engines and, in any case, it will have to settle for receiving chass♓is, electronics and aerody🔯namics improvements.

“The poli🔯tics and relationship ꧑that Marc has with Ducati and with Dall'Igna will be very important.

“Gigi is happ🧜y with the arrival of Marquez, he sཧupports his airrval.

“He wants to have the best riders in his ranks and I am sure that, if Marc continues to do as well as in his debut, Dall'Igna and Ducati will support ﷺhim this year and will want him to continue with the branꦦd in the future.”

Lorenzo spent two unsuccessful years with Ducati at the tail-end of his꧒ own career yet still emerged as a huge ad🐬vocate for Dall’Igna, Ducati’s engineer extraordinaire.

Although his own stint in red could not restore glory t꧋o Ducati, Lorenzo al🃏ways maintained faith that the manufacturer would soon return to the top of MotoGP.

They did so in 2022 via Bag⛦naia, the rider that Marquez is battling this year and could sit alongside next year.