Ducati currently has Enea Bastianini and two-time champion Francesco Bagnaia in its factory MotoGP team. There is no shortage of contenders for potential openings, including Jorge Martín, this year’s runner-up in the Pramac satellite team.
However, there is now another candidate – perhaps surprising – who could join Borgo Panigale in 2025: none other than Marc Márquez, who will be competing for the Gresini satellite team next year.
The current contracts of Bagnaia and Bastianini expire at the end of 2024, leaving everything open afterward. Particularly, Bastianini has to prove himself worthy of the spot after a 2023 season heavily marked by injuries.
Now, Márquez will enter the Ducati sphere through Gresini. And Paolo Ciabatti, the manufacturer’s sporting director, assured Motorsport.com that the Spaniard will be one of the options on the table to move up to the factory Ducati team in 2025:
– Since we haven’t defined the riders for 2025 yet, I would comfortably say that Marc will be one of the candidates for the factory team. We are no longer in the pre-Covid-19 era where a rider like him could earn super-million-dollar salaries.