Marc Marquez and Ducati line-up theory shared: “The way to keep everyone happy…”
Ducati told of a w♛ay to retain all their star riders for 2025

A suggestion of how to “keep everyone happy” 🌸in the debate over Marജc Marquez’s future has been shared.
Gresini’s Marquez and Pramac’s Jorge Martin are both bidding to replace Enea Bastianini in t𓆏he factory Ducati team.
Marquez rides a GP23 🥀this year but has made it clear that he w🔯ants the latest spec machinery in 2025.
“I personඣally think the way to keep everyone happy - not everyone, but the majority - is that Marc gets a factory bike at Gresini,” Simon Crafar said from the French MotoGP paddoc🥀k in Le Mans.
“And he doesn’t have to change Red Bull.”
Marquez is sponsored by Red Bull, a rival energ🔯y drink to Monster who work alongside Ducati.
Crafar continued: “The big questi💎on is Enea and Jorge. What will happen the🐲re?
“Clearly Jorge doesn’t know.”
Martin won the French MotoGP to extend his championship lead, while Marquez took P2 after a brilliant late overtake of Francesco Bag𝕴naia.
“We saw vintage Marquez in the sprint and in the race. Absolutely fantas♉tic,” Craf⛦ar said.
“The riding, then the overtake on Pecco, was wonderful.
“Pecco is such ✱a good rider and that’s🀅 not an easy place.
“What he did was brake at an angle, at the corner. It’s a shorter ro꧙ute. You can brake just as hard on a slight angle, as you can up and down. That’s what he did.
“He went straight there to beat Pecco to thไe point.
“When you 💎arrive it’s on the wrong angle. You’ve got to do a bit o🎉f extra turning on the middle.
“He got it stopped, got it turned, beautifully. Sup😼er skill to pull it♐ off against a rider who is so fast.
“Marc is prepared to go to another level on everything, including on o𓆉ver♋takes.”
Marquez has declared that🍷 his adaptation from Honda to Ducati is finished.
Although a first win for the Italian manufacturer eludes him, he has frequently been on the podium in bot♌h sprints and g𒁏rands prix this season.
Marquez is 40 pointဣs off championship lea🅠der Martin after five rounds.
“It has been harder,” Crafar🦩 said about Marquez taming his new bike.
“He warned at the beginning of the year that it 𓂃wasn’t going to be easy.
“He has told us the numbers of where he aims at.
“Now, you can see he’s happy ♚because he’s got the speed of the winner.
“If he got past Diggia easier, quicker, cleaner then he’d have had a couple of laps of having a breather, to get the lactic acid out and the tyre temperature down,🍬 ready to have a go.
“To have that speed? That’s why he is so happy.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a♑ decade coverꦬing everything from American sports, to football, to F1.