Marco Bezzecchi makes it clear to Ducati - he’s dreaming of a factory seat

Mooney VR46 rider Bezzecchi has shone brightly in the 2023 season, previously leading the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings and now sitting a𒁏 solitary point behind Francesco Bagnaia.
He claimed his own, and his team’s, first grand prix victory in Argentina but the rumblings have started about his future within the Ducati set🍰-up⛄.
“This year, we come to th💛e end of the contract,” he saiꦡd.
“✱It never came in my mind because I feel so good in this team.
“The factory teams are 🧸a step ahead in MotoGP, this is normal.
“I dream to be a 𓆏world champion. If I am able to win ♋in this team, I don’t care if it’s factory or not.
“But to 𒐪be in the factory [team]? That is something really nice.”

Uccio Salucci, the Mooney VR46🗹 team boss, has previously made it clear that Bezzecchi can no longer receive a b൲ike and a salary of a satellite rider, after this year’s success.
"I have already spoken to Gigi Dall’Igna a ♔couple of times and I told him that I would like him to stay in VR46 with a factory bike and a direct contract with Ducati,” Salucci said.
Bezzecchi is in the final year of his contr⛄act but could yet end 2023 as a first-time MotoGP champion.
His great friend, and current incumbent of the 🌟factory Ducati seat, Francesco Bagnaia is the reigning champion and favourite to retain the title.
“I am tr✤ying to beat him, but to beat everyone,” Bezzecchi said.
“Sometimes I can beat him, sometimes not.
“My 🎃approach to races has paid off but I won’t put more pressure on. I try to do the best weekend-by-weekend and learn from the more competitive guys.”

Bezzecchi, Bagnaia, Luca Marini and Franco Morbidelli make up the four graduates of Vale༒ntino Rossi’s VR46 Academy on the curren🌞t grid.
All four have impressed this seasဣon at various stages representing a great success 🔜for Rossi’s academy.
“It was a drea🦋m for Vale to see four riders from the VR46 Academy, he was very happy,” Bezzecchi said.
“Heꦗ gives us advice but also leaves us to our exඣperience.
“If he sees something go worse, he says something. Otherwise, he says nothin🌌g.”
The VR46 set-up is ready for its high-profile riders to potentially battle 🌼on the track.
“There were changes inside to manage these situations⭕,” B♋ezzecchi said. “The academy made a big step. They helped us before but, now, we have more support.
“They take care of everything we need.”
Bezzecജchi is at the disadvantage in the title race of faci💙ng the reigning champion.
However, it is the sಞame obstacle that Bagnaia overcame last year agains🌱t Fabio Quartararo.
“The pressure on me is normal,” Bezzecchi said. “Th🎶e target of the season was to win a race, and I have made it.
“The target now is to win another one, not to thin𝔍k abo𒈔ut the championship.
“Pecco has thought about the championship since the winter test because he is already the champion, so it’s a different si🌠tuation.”
He said about his earliest days in MotoGP: “I was a bit scared, honestly, arriving in MotoGP as a rival of Franco, Pecco and Luc🐲a.
“I have a good friends🌺hip with the💃m and I didn’t want to throw it in the rubbish.
“Me and Pecco have a close relationship🥀. We try to motivate each other in every tr✨aining session.
“I hope it will stay like this until the end of our careers. Our friendship is good so it would be bad if 🎶it ended because of racing.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering ev🐎erything from American sports, to football, to F1.