Ducati’s stance on this year’s MotoGP title battle - involvinꦫg Jorge Martin and Marc Marquez - was debated on the Crash MotoGP podcast.

The dominant manufacturer in the premier c꧑lass caused a sensation this week by picking Marquez for their 2025 factory team.

It had seemed, days earlier, that Martin was set to be app🎶ointed u✱ntil Marquez rejected Ducati’s idea of riding for Pramac.

MotoGP returns in two weeks at Assen with the ꦆfutures of its biggest stars finally settled.

But Ducati will now face questions about how their deal🌺 with four of their riders in the current championship battle, knowing Martin and Enea Bastianini will leave at the end of the year.

Podcast h💮ost Jordan Moreland asked: “Does this change the dynamic for Ducati not giving [Martin] support?

“Does it change the relationship with Marquez?

“🔜Now, he’s probably pressing Ducati to say ‘I want upgrades on this ‘23 to make it the latest spec’.”

Peter McLaren repor♑ted: “All of those questiꦍons now come into the mix.

“If Martin has a bad weekend, or if he’s struggling, people will be saying ‘is he getting all⛦ the help that maybe he should be getting? Given that, if he wins, he takes the #1 to a rival Itali﷽an factory’.

“Let’s not forget that. It’s not just another factory. It’s 🧸another Italian factory!

“At the same time you’ve got Marquez saying ‘come on guys, help me out, suppo💎rt me, I am your factory rider next year, if I win or Pecco wins it stays within Ducati next year’.

“All of those things… it will be a really tough balan𝔍cing act for Ducati to make sure everybody is treated as well as they can be.”

Pramac’s Mar𒁏tin is leading the MotoGP standings aಌfter seven rounds.

He is 18 points ahead of Pecco Bagnaiꦕa, the factory Ducati rider and reigning champio🌃n.

Martin is 35 pointඣs clear o𝕴f third-placed Gresini rider Marquez.

Fourth-placed Enea Basti✃anini is 54 points off the top.