Manuel Poggiali left his job as Gresini rider coach, ju⛎st as Marc Marquez cꦫame into the team.

Poggiali gave up the o♐pportunity that many would crave - to oversee Marquez’s debut year on♑ a Ducati.

He has instead moved to the factory Ducatiꩵ t🐟eam to act as their rider coach.

Poggiali insists he was not tempted to r𓆏eject 𝄹or postpone the call from the factory team in favour of working alongside Marquez.

"Honestly, when the call came - I underline, unexpected, because I was very focused on the work at the time - fr⛄om Gigi Dall'Igna, who I have known since the days of Aprilia, even without having worked together, someone who I respect, who everyone knows, who has charisma, it was difܫficult for me not to jump on that train that called me,” Poggiali told .

Poggiali is a two-time world champion as a rider who now🌠 holds aꦚ little-known role within MotoGP.

He described the job of a rider coach: "In my case, working from the side of the track, I try to see w♒hat are the most important critical issues that our riders have and to better understand what is happening.

“In part, you go where they tell you that t✨here are difꦬficulties or interesting things to see.

“A lot also comes from the work you do at home.

“Each rider is different, he has his own history, his own characteristics,🍌 his own difficulties and his 𒊎own strong points.

“O🐼n a track where a driver has never wo💝n or has always been in difficulty, it will most likely be one of the difficult ones, so I try to observe what happens to try to find advice, ideas, different ideas to improve performance.

“T𓃲ogether we analyse with the support of tꦓhe whole team and we try to find the solution to optimise everything as much as possible.”

Poggiali will work ❀alongside Pecco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini this year.

🌊Last season with Gresini, he aided Fabio di Giannantonio and Alex Marquez.

Di Giannantonio, despite losing his𝐆 bike to Marc Marquez, shone with his late-2023 form.

"Fabio has always had gꦉreat qualities,” Poggiali൩ said.

“MotoGP is the most difficult and complicated꧃ category in the world championship.

“His journey was perhaps a little longeಞr than others, but it's part of the game.

“The first year of MotoGP, apart from very few exceptions🐻, it was difficult for everyone even though he took a pole at Mugello.

“It was a journey that led him to mature, to understand what to dꦯo on the track, to manage many things, tyres, asphalts, tracks...

“I wish him success good alꦇso with the VR46 team because I am fond of him: he won the first race in Moto3 with me as coach in 2018 in Brno, I was lucky enough to also be alongside him in the first success in Moto2 in Jerez 2021 and last year in MotoGPꦰ in Qatar.

“I have followed practically his entire career in the world 🍬championship, being his 'track' reference.

“I have ಌa spec🎐ial relationship with him, I wish him the best.”