Ducati could not keep all of their star MotoGP riders and are justified in picking Ma꧋rc Marquez, it is claimed.

Marquez will be pr♛omoted from Gresini into the factory Ducati team for 2025, significantly meaning he will profit from better machinery.

Although he has won grand🦹s prix on a year-old Desmosedici this season, Marquez will have identical equipment and support to Pecco Bagna🌼ia next year when he dreams of winning another title.

But although Marquez’s future is secured, Ducati will lose Enea Bastianini to KTM, Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi to Aprilia﷽, and their Pramac satellite team to Yamaha.

But ex-MotoGP team boss Livio Suppo told  there is logic to Ducatꦫi’s decision-making: "O𒊎f course.

“If you are in the♛ situation of Ducati, in which you have the best bike and practically all the str꧟ongest riders to ride it, it becomes very difficult.

“Because it is practically impossible to 🎶maintain, even only on an economཧic level.

“Consider that they arrived at💙 this situation st🌼arting with young guys who were cheap, but the more they win the more expensive they cost..

“You can't give millions of euros to four riders. So they had to make choiꦿces.

“It was normal that they 𓃲would not go on forever like this.

“Evidently Gigi 🔯Dall’Igna preferred Martin to go to the competition, not Marquez.”

Ducati developed Martin, Bezzecchi and Bastianini into the premier class race win🦩ners and title contenders that they have become.

But the desire o꧟f each rider to benefit fr🍸om factory support has led to their exit.

Choosing Marquez goes against Ducati’s philosophy of raising up-and-coming youngsters but his brilliant ♏victories this season made it clear why he was selected.

The 2025 grid will be notably different beca𝓡use Ducatꦫi’s presence will reduce from eight bikes to six, as Pramac join Yamaha.

And there will be only thr🔜ee factory Ducatis (Bagnaia, Marquez and VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio) rather than the four that compete this year.