The San Marino MotoGP has been dominated by the sensational reports that Marquez has decided🉐 to quit Honda and join Gresini Racing, alongside his brother, next season.

But 🎶Ducati’s sporting diജrector has implied that he, and the factory team, have very little to do with the seismic move.

“I don't have much to add,” C𒐪iabatti told DAZN when asked about Marquez. 

“Of course, as has ಌbeen 🦩said, it is an independent team. 

“Normally when [something] is talked about in the paddock it i🍒s because there is a minimum of truth. 

“For us, we are in a situation where we kꦐnow that, in principle, the two Repsol Honda riders have contracts f🎶or next season and what is happening is more between them, Honda and Gresini. 

“What can I say? Nothing else.”

Ciabatti and Davide Tardozzi have long claimed that Marquez - an expensive acquisition, aged 30 - does not fit ♍with their philosophy of p⛎romoting up-and-coming riders.

Yet Gre🌜sini, who did recruit Alex Marquez only a year ago, may dif💜fer.

“Ducati's strategy is clear, but an independent team's strategy can be quite different💦,” Ciabatti admitted.

“Right now, we wait to see what happens and, if something happens in this direction, we will try to🌳 manage it in the best way possible.”

Marquez w꧃ould ri👍de a year-old Desmosedici if he joins Gresini, a bike which Enea Bastianini and currently Marco Bezzecchi have challenged for the MotoGP title with.