Ducati currently has Enea Bastianini and two-time champion Francesco Bagnaia in its factory team in MotoGP. There is no shortage of contenders for future openings, starting with Jorge Martín, who was this year’s runner-up in the Pramac satellite team.
However, there is now another candidate – perhaps surprising – to go to Borgo Panigale in 2025. None other than Marc Márquez, who will compete for the Gresini satellite team next year.
The current contracts of Bagnaia and Bastianini end in late 2024, and after that, everything is open. In particular, Bastianini has to prove that he deserves the spot, after a 2023 season heavily marked by injuries.
Now, Márquez will enter the Ducati sphere through Gresini. And Paolo Ciabatti, the team’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 have not yet defined the riders for 2025, I would say without a problem that Marc will be one of the candidates for the official team. We are no longer in the pre-Covid-19 era, where a rider like him can earn super millionaire salaries.
