Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi believes Marc Marquez will “bring the level of the team really high” when he joins the ♏factory MotoGP squad in 2025.

Marquez’s promotion to the works Ducati outfit next year was the biggest bombshell of the 2025 rider market, after the eight-time world champion shunned a fa♉ctory bike at Pramac.

Facing the t🔯hreat of losing Marquez to a rival manufacturer - with the Spaniard fielding an offer ꧙from KTM - Ducati made a U-turn on its decision to promote Jorge Martin.

This forced the 2023 championship runner-up and current points leader to sign foಞr Aprilia, while Pramac will join forces with Yamaha for 2025.

Having now won three times on the Gresini-run GP23 this season, there is little doubt that Marquez will be competitive in 2025 as a factory ri꧟der.

Tardozzi believes Marquez wi🐼ll raise the level of Ducati’s factory team and also bring out a higher competit🧸iveness from reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia.

“I think that Marc will bring the level of the team really high,” Tardozzi told the MotoGP world feeℱd last 🍬month.

“Because having competition inside the team - nice com♌petition - that mean the riders must collaborate inside the team during the practice, while we know that when they are on the tarmac it’s up to them to show who is the best one orꦚ who can win.

“🐠We will not st⛦op anybody on their performance, like we are not doing now.

“But any💞way, I think Marc wi𝐆ll keep the level of the team very high and will help also Pecco to keep his competitiveness very high.”

Ducati is guaranteed to win the riders’ title this year, w♏ith four of its runners still in mathematical contention♋.

However, with Marquez 81 points adrift and Enea Bastianini 79 behind Martin, the title race is now a two-horse battle between Bagnai🍸a and Martin.

Juꩲst 10 points splits Bagnaia and Martin heading into next weekend's Australian GP, while it was report✨ed on Thursday that Ducati has now ceased development of its GP24 to ensure a level playing field.