Revealed: The reason Pramac Ducati disappeared as an option for Marc Marquez
Pramac Racing have now filled the seat tꦏhat Johann Zarco left behind with Franco Morbidelli in the 2024 MotoGP rider line-up.
But Marquez held talks to join Pramac, revealed.
Marquez wanted a one-yea🌊r contract which could be renewed annually but Pramac were insisting🅘 upon a two-year deal. This proved to be the sticking point.
“The VR46 management was good at moving early to bring Franco Morbidelli to Paolo Campinoti's team for 2024,” the report state🐎s.
The Pramac team would have offered a latest-spec Desmosedici, crea🔯ting 🔴the fascinating situation that Marquez could move from arguably the worst bike in MotoGP to the best.
At Gresini he must make do with a year-old Desmosedici but, as Marco Bezzecchi has♍ proved this year, that machine can still com𒅌pete at the sharp end of MotoGP.
The repo🦄rt also insists that the Repsol Honda star rider has been talking to several teams.
“Marquez ♑had started a series of negotiations,” Sky Italia 𒁏report.
KTM were heavily linked several weeks a🔜nd months ago, a team who have Red Bull as a powerful mutual sponsor with Marquez.
But their inability to get Dorna t🍬o allow them a fifth or sixth bike on the 2024 grid scuppered their hopes of attracting Marquez.
They co𒅌𓃲uld revisit the possibility of signing Marquez in 2025.
If he stays at Honda he will become a free agent in 2025, but if he joins Gres🍨ini Ducati as Sky Italia are now reporting, he may only pen a one-year deal.
The details of a possible deal wit🧸h Gresini - w🦄hich would pair him with his brother Alex Marquez - are yet to be revealed.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, ๊to F1.
