Gigi Dall’Igna’s big decision about who will ride the 2025 factory Ducati was mentioned on the Cr⛄ash MotoGP podcast.

We were at the Catalunya MotoGP in Barcelona to see Aleix Espargaro’s retirement speech, hi♎s sprint win then Pecco Bagnaia’s grand prix glory.

The looming storyline revolves around whether Ducati will go with Marc Marquez, Jorge Marti𒉰n or Enea Bastiani🍌ni alongside Bagnaia next year.

“For Ducati, if they don’t go with Martin, justifying that de🧸cision is,﷽ to me, very hard,” Robert Jones said.

“I don’t know how they justify that.

“I know the appeal of Marquez. But ཧin terms of age, and what he’s delivering right now, Martin is the guy to go with.

“He said on several occasions that hꦓe can’t do any m🌜ore. I really believe he can’t.

“If he goes on to win the title this year - which he looks🌊 like the favourite to do - what else can he do?

“He’s there every weekend, winni🍨ng nearly every weekend.

“It’s hard to match him ﷽especially if Bagnaia has issues in the sprint and Marc has issues in the qualifyin𝔍g.”

Pramac’s Martin leads the MotoGP championship🐷 ahead of Bagnaia, Marquez and Bastianini heading into Mugello this weekend.

The upꦑcoming Italian MotoGP was al🥀so debated on the Crash MotoGP podcast.

Aleix Espargaro retirement discussed

Our MotoGP editor Peter McLaren was preℱsent in Barcelona to hear Espargaro’s tea🌟rful retirement.

“Thursday we heard r🦄umours that Aleix would announce something,” Peter reported on 🅰the podcast.

“To do it at his home round was the right place.

“You never know what a rider will be like, after that. Once their mind-set changes, what will theꦦy be like on-track?

“Great for him. So 𓄧much has happened at this track f꧅or him over the years.

“Doubওle win last year, then the sprint… it wasn’t quite a fairytale finish.

“He’s got the rest of the season to look forward to. The Aprilia is a good bike - but one does well, an🏅d the other struggles…”