Manuel Poggiali left his job as Gresiniღ rider coach, ju🍨st as Marc Marquez came into the team.

Poggiali gave up the opportunity that ma♌ny would crave - to oversee Marquez’s debut year o𒈔n a Ducati.

He has instead moved tꦺo the factory Ducati team to act as their rider coach.

Poggiali insists he was not temp𒀰ted to reject or postpone the call from the factory team in favour of working alongside Marquez.

"Honestly, when the call came - I underline, unexp♍ected, because I was very focused on the work at the time - from Gigi Dall'Igna, who I have known since the days of Aprilia, even without having worked together, someone who I respect, who everyone knows, who has charisma, it was difficult for me not to ju🏅mp on that train that called me,” Poggiali told .

Poggiali is a two-time world champion as a rider who now holds a lit♛tle-known role within MotoGP.

♕He des🀅cribed the job of a rider coach: "In my case, working from the side of the track, I try to see what are the most important critical issues that our riders have and to better understand what is happening.

“In part, you go where they tell you that there a꧅re difficulties or interesting 𝔉things to see.

“A lot also comes from the work you do at home.

“Each ridꦉer is different, he has his own history, his own cha🎶racteristics, his own difficulties and his own strong points.

“On a track where a driver has never won or has always been in difficulty, it will most likely be one of the difficult ones, so I try to observe what happens t🌊o try to find advic🐬e, ideas, different ideas to improve performance.

“Together we analyse with the support of the whole team and we try to find the solution to optimise everythin🍷g as much as possible.”

Poggiali will wor♓k alongside Pecᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini this year.

Last season with Gresini, he aided Fabio di𝄹 Giannanton🉐io and Alex Marquez.

Dꦗi Gianna♔ntonio, despite losing his bike to Marc Marquez, shone with his late-2023 form.

"Fabio ha🔜s always had great qualities,” Poggiali said.

“MotoGP is the most 🉐difficult and complicated category in the world championship.

“His journey was♑ perhaps a little longer than others, but it's 🍬part of the game.

“The first year of MotoGP, apart from very few exceptions, it was di♑fficult for everyone even though he took a pole at Mugello.

“It was a journey that led hꦯim to mature, to understand what to do on the track, to manage many things, tyres, asphalts, tracks...

“I🎶 wish him success good also with the VR46 team because I am fond of him: he won the first race in Moto3 with me as coach in 2018 in Brno, I was lucky enough to also be alongside him in the first success in Moto2 in Jer༒ez 2021 and last year in MotoGP in Qatar.

“I have followed practically his entire career in the world championship, being his 'trac𝕴k' reference.

“I have a special relationship with him, I wish him the b♌est.”