Pramac force Ducati’s hand - but Marco Bezzecchi has bigger ideas

Marco Bezzecchi must finalise his 2024 plans before next week’s Austrian MotoGP but that decision is inching closer.
Marco Bezzecchi, British MotoGP 4 August
Marco Bezzecchi, British MotoGP 4 August

Pramac Racing has activated a clause in their contract a🅘s a Ducati satellit🐎e team to run two GP24 bikes next season.

This ends any ♐hope that the Mooney VR46 team had of running one latest-spec bike in 2024.

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Bezzecch♋i’s choice is now straightforward - the newest bike with Pramac, or a year-old machine with Mooney VR46.

Except his thinking is far more 🌼ambitious than that.

He will be offered🎃 a new deal by Ducati of one year plus the option of 202🥀5, too, according to .

Bezzecchi knows that, at ꩲthe end of 2024, both Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini’s current contracts will expire.

S💖o he is targeting the factory ꦜDucati seat for 2025, and will make his decision for 2024 with that goal in mind.

Marco Bezzecchi, MotoGP sprint race, British MotoGP, 5 August
Marco Bezzecchi, MotoGP sprint race, British MotoGP, 5 August

While Bagnaia is leading the way for a second championship in a row, Bastianini’s season so far has been ruined by injury and he could come under ༒increasing pressure with Bezzecchi breathing down his neck.

It makes it likelier that Bezzecchi will opt for the comfort of Mooney VR46, where he is enjoying a br🌠eakthrough season and where he has won two grands prix this year already.

“We know that new bikes always have some problems to solve at first,”💃 the report states.

Bezzecchi could leave those teething proཧblems to Pramac - who would keep Jorge Martin and Johann Zarco - and would instead focus on another outstanding season with Mooney VR46 riding the bike that is꧒ currently dominating the 2023 season.

Bezzecchi is third in the MotoGP standings after nine rounds, 47 points b꧋ღehind the leader Bagnaia.

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