Ducati have revealed that two-time reigning MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia did not tyr and inf🃏luence Ducati in their decision to hire his 2025 team-mate.

After battling on-track for much of the season, Jorge Martin and Marc Marquez battled off track for the second factory Ducati seat alongside Bagna𓆏ia.

Heading into Muge🐻llo it appeared as though Martin had been chosen as the guy to partner Bagnaia.

But after fearing they would lose Marquez, possi🎃bly to another manufact💎urer, a change of heart took place and Ducati opted to sign the eight-time world champion.

Bagnaia, who had previously admitted he wanted current team-mate Enea Bastianini to stay, did not influence Ducati in any way, according to D💦ucati Corse General mana♕ger, Gigi Dall’igna.

The reaction of Pecco ꦛwas really good,” Dall’Igna told MotoGP.com. “He is a professional rider, a champion, and he knows that we would like the best possibilities to fight for the world cha൩mpionship.

“In the past, yes, he would like to have Enea as a team-mate because of the relati✅onship between them but in the end he is a professional rider and he๊ understood our decision. He didn’t push us in any direction.”

Ducati will have one of the strongest MotoGP line-ups of all-time in 2025, and without question their most talented rider p🎀airing. 

Marquez and♐ Bagnaia have already shown how fierce and aggre🔥ssive they are willing to be when battling each other.

Wh♊ich begs the question, can they work as teammates?

Dall’Igna believes they can, saying: “We have to be good enough to𝓀 do that. It will not be easy but honestly speaking, I know the team and the people that work for me.

“Working together ꦕlike we have done ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚin the past, we can do this.”