2021 MotoGP champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo made a surprising decision last week as he agreed🍌 to a new two-year deal with Yam🦩aha.

The Japanese brand has endured a difficult time since winning the championship with Q🔥uartararo in 2021, losing out to Francesco Bagnaia in 2022,🎀 before a very disappointing season in 2023 as it marked their first winless campaign since 2003.

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Quart♉araro received interest from Aprilia as a 4m Euro salary reportedly was offered to the 🔯French rider.

However, Yamaha more than doubled that offer by giving Quartararo a yea🅰rly salary of 12m for the next two seasons.

While that secures Quartararo’s future, it means Jorge Martin won’t be joining Yamaha🦩 which would have been in play had Quartararo left.

Instead, Martin’s future could ♏now be locked in at Ducati unless Aprilia swoops in with an offer he canܫ’t turn down.

However, that appears unlikely and Martin, who is the current championship leader, will want to move in alongside Bagnaia at the factory Lenovo🐈 D♓ucati team.

Martin has been the most consistent rider so far in 2024 and last season’s runner-up has made it known on several occasi🃏ons that he wants to be a factory rider.

Ducati have plenty of options but when it comes to performance, current results and age🍎, Martin might be the favourite to join Bagnaia.

But whไat about the likes of Bastia💛nini and Marquez?

Starting with the former, Bastianini has looked back to his best at the🐼 start of 2024 after adapting better to the new Desmos♎edici GP24.

Bastianini secured second spot behind Martin 𒊎last time out in Portimao, and although Martin has been stronger than the Italian so far 𝓰this season, the Italian is a rider that on his day has proven to be very hard to beat.

Bastianini has also been a very good team-mate to🔯 Bagnai🥂a and so the familiarity of being in the factory team, experience and results he has is not something Ducati will take lightly when making a decision.

Martin’s raw pace and recent results says he should be the ri🅘der to get that seat, however, Bastianini remains one of the best riders in MotoGP and therefore Ducati might want to keep their line-up intact.

The wildcard here is Marc Marquez, because the Spaniard is arguably the best MotoGP ri♎der of his era, if not ever.

Marquez, like Bastianini, has been very strong so far this season and an argument could be made that only Martin and Bagnaia have demonstra🃏ted more consistent speed than the🧔 eight-time world champion.

If Ducati chose to sign Marquez alongside Bagnaia, it would mean looking⛦ at what he’s capable of doing, rather ✤than basing their decision off of results aboard their bike.

Marquez only has two rounds of experience riding a Ducati, but that hasn’tಌ stopped him from being very impress🧸ive.

Marquez could also make a big statem♛ent by winning this weekend at COTA, one of his most successful circuits on the calendar.

Of course, the incident between Marquez and Bagnaia in Portimao migh🐠t scare management away from taking a risk, but equally, putting Marquez on thei🐈r factory bike would be a big statement and would do wonders for sponsors.

Our prediction as it stands is that ⛦Martin will get the second factory Ducati ride for 2025, while Bastianini could be set for a move away fr♔om Ducati after it was reported that talks have begun with Aprilia.