Marco Melandri closely followed the last race on Sunday at the Le Mans GP. The former Italian MotoGP rider commented, according to motosan.es, on Marc Márquez’s performance during the race and addressed the topic that is circulating throughout the paddock, who will take the factory seat at the Ducati Lenovo Team?
He started by talking about Marc’s performance: ‘The truth is that it could have been a boring GP if Marc hadn’t given it his own touch. When things change, he is the strongest. You can really see that he is recovering his attitude, which means he has regained confidence in the bike and has taken steps with this Ducati. He is a racing animal, has an intuition and a coldness in his decisions that is scary, and that showed in how he started, both in the Sprint and in Sunday’s GP.’
He then added about the possibilities of Marc moving up to the factory team and if it doesn’t happen, where he could go.
– I think he said he wanted a factory seat. Not a factory rider in a satellite team, but a factory rider himself. It is obvious that he knows it’s not the same. I don’t know how it will end, but in my opinion, if it’s not the Lenovo team for him, he won’t have any problem going to KTM. Either he or Martin will go to KTM.
He concluded: ‘It’s also necessary to say that the choice will be influenced by other issues that we may have overlooked. Martin won, Marquez is Marquez, but if we look, Enea Bastianini was also very strong: in the last ten laps of Le Mans he was the fastest on track. Someone will have to leave Ducati and, I repeat, I am convinced it will be Marquez or Martin: one of them will go to KTM.’
