VR46 disagree with Ducati’s decision to run only three factory bikes

VR46 team boss reacts to suggestiꦆon of fewer factory Ducatis in 2025

Fabio Di Giannantonio, MotoGP, Spanish MotoGP, 27 April
Fabio Di Giannantonio, MotoGP, Spanish MotoGP, 27 April

VR46 do not agree with Ducati’s stance to run just three fac🦩tory bikes ne🅰xt season.

The ex♔it of Pramac as a Ducati satellite team, into the arms of Yamaha, will change the playing♊ field dramatically in 2025.

Ducati will be left with only VR46 and Gresini as satellite teams, reducing their♔ presౠence from eight to six bikes.

Although Pramac currently have access to two factory bikes, next season🐽 Ducati will dish out only one to VR46, and none for Gresini.

“𓆏I don't really a꧒gree with Gigi Dall'Igna,” VR46 team boss Uccio Salucci told .

“Because we will have only one updated bike, while I would have wanted two as we𝓰 have always done.

“But unfortunately or fortunately it is Ducati who decides, we will have one and we will make do with🐟 it.

“We will try to make it work in the best way, even if the other manufacturers are organised wit🌟h four and we have three. But this will become even more unique because there will be two red ones and one of ours.”

It is expec𒁃ted that Fabio di Giannantonio, who currently rides a year-ol🌞d Desmosedici with VR46, will sign a new contract to stay with the team and will profit from the use of a GP25 next season.

His teammate rꦏemains uncertain. V😼R46 have lost Marco Bezzecchi to Aprilia.

Salucci is confident about the team’s status within Ducati’s🙈 smaller ranks next season.

“They chose us as a reference team, starting from 2025 🅘because Pramac left, but Ducaꦰti had already chosen us for 2027 as a reference team, independently of Pramac,” he insisted.

Di Giannantonio has been VR46’s standout rider this season, adding to his emphatic end-of-2023 with Gresini when💟 he won the Qatar MotoGP.

Teammate Bezzecchi, by contrast, has found the GP23 far more challenging th💛an the GP22, when he won his and his team’s first MotoGP race in 2023.

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