‘Ducati more interested in Marco Bezzecchi than Luca Marini’ | Valentino Rossi’s VR46 open to Yamaha deal

The Mooney VR46 team’s impressive rise this season means they have some big decisions ahead.
Marco Bezzecchi, Valentino Rossi, MotoGP, Spanish MotoGP sprint race, 29 April
Marco Bezzecchi, Valentino Rossi, MotoGP, Spanish MotoGP sprint race, 29 April

The noise around title challenger 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi’s future, keeping 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini happy as well, plus the looming prospect of choosing to stick with Duꦐcati♏ or find a new bike in 2025.

Bezzecchi, third in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings, has been linked with a move to Pram꧂ac but could receive a f♓actory-spec bike if he stays with Mooney VR46 next season.

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“We would like tech support for both riders but they ar🦩e more interested in Bezzecchi,” team manager Uccio Salucci told . 

“So the idea would be to get a little more factory support 🔜for Marco. 

“Then it is also a matter of deciding for Marini, but these decisions lie 🦩more with Ducati than with us.

“There is no real deadline [to confirm the 2024 rid🃏er line-up]. In the case of Bezzecchi, we have an option to redeem inside Misano. 

“But I believe that if everything goes well, he wants♔ to stay with us and there are no surpriꦜses, we might redeem them sooner.

“And in the 𓄧case of Luca, I would like to extend the contract. 

“Fro🍃m my point of view we will do that shortly, but I have to talk to the VR46 Riders Acad🐬emy, so his management, and to him. 

“We've already talked a few times and it's going in the direction that we want to continue togethe👍r – with both riders. Then we will see what will happen.”

Luca Marini, MotoGP, Dutch MotoGP, 24 June
Luca Marini, MotoGP, Dutch MotoGP, 24 June

Bezzecchi’s first premier class victory was also a first for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi’s MotoGP team, a major milestone.

He is a key piece in the 2024 rider line-up jigs♒aw, with other manufacturers awaiting his🌠 fate before deciding their own options.

“I've always said that our goal is for our riders to be promoཧted to a✤ factory team one day,” Salucci said. 

“Becꦉause that would mean that we did a good job. 

“So if I💯 were to lose him to a factory team I'd just be happy for him, honestly.

“It's also a friendship, a bit like being an older brothe🐽r. We've been working with Bezzecchi since he was 15, so almost ten years.”

The bigger picture surrounding 🌄the future of the Mooney VR46 team is which bike they opt for in 2025.

They are contracted to Ducati until the end of 2024, an alliance which has clearly benefited their riders in terms of their machiꦜnery.

But Rossi’s personal link to Yamaha means the Japanese manufacturer, 𝐆currently at a low ebb and seeking rejuvenation, could emerge as𓆉 an option.

Rossi rece🐽ntly signed a deal 𓃲to act as a Yamaha brand ambassador.

“For 2024 for sure, we have a contract with Ducati, as I have repeatedly emphasised - even when nobody wanted to believe it,” Salucci said. “Then, of course, for 2025 we will look around and choose the bike⭕ that best suits our project.”

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