Revealed: The reason Pramac Ducati disappeared as an option for Marc Marquez
Pramac Racing▨ have now filled the seat that Johann Zarco left behind with Franco Morbidelli in the 2024 MotoGP rider line-up.
But Marquez held talks to join Pramac, revealed.
Marquez wanted a one-year contract which could be renewed annually but Pramac were insisting upon a two-year deal. This proved tꦰo be the sticking point.
“The VR46 management was good at moving early 🅠to bring Franco Morbidelli to Paolo Campinoti's team for 2024,” the report sta♌tes.
The Pr𓂃amac team would have offered a latest-spec Desmosedici, creating the fascinating situation that Marquez could move from arguably the worst b༒ike in MotoGP to the best.
At Gresini he must make do with a year-old Desmosedici but, as Marco Bezzecchi has proved this year, that machine can still compete at the sharp end of MotoG𝐆P.
The report also in൩sists that the Repsol Honda star rider has been talking to several teams.
“Marquez had started a series of negotiations,🐬” Sky Itali﷽a report.
KTM were heavily li🍒nked several weeks and months ago, a team who have Red Bull as a powerful mut♛ual sponsor with Marquez.
But their inability to get Dorna to allow them a fifth or sixth bike on the 2024 grid scꦦuppered their hopes of attracting Marquez.
They could revis✅it the possibility of signing Marquez i🅘n 2025.
If he stays at Honda he will become a 🧸free agent in 2025, but if he joins Gresini Ducati as Sky Italia are now reporting, he may only pen a one-year deal.
The details of a possible deal with Gresini - which would pℱair him with his brother Alex Marquez -⛦ are yet to be revealed.
James was a sports journaliꦍst at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
