Final weekend Bagnaia produced one in every of his greatest MotoGP race wins up to now as he held off Marquez late on in a spectacular battle to take Spanish Grand Prix victory.
Whereas Bagnaia has charged to back-to-back MotoGP world titles in 2022 and 2023, having stepped as much as the manufacturing facility Ducati squad in 2021, Marquez had suffered from a sequence of career-threatening accidents, the decline of Honda’s competitiveness and having to make the soar to satellite tv for pc squad Gresini Ducati in 2024.
However having been in podium competition on the opening three rounds, and preventing for victory within the fourth occasion at Jerez, Marquez feels his adaptation to Ducati is full, whereas he’s already within the image for a manufacturing facility Ducati promotion for 2025.
Talking on the post-Spanish GP take a look at at Jerez on Monday about the potential of having Marquez as his future team-mate, Bagnaia stated: “I do not know. Marc comes from 12 years within the Honda group and I am certain he can contribute one thing to an official group like Ducati, however for the time being we’re extraordinarily aggressive.
“We’re attentive to each element, we’re at a really excessive degree, so Marquez would adapt nicely to the state of affairs.”
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Group
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Marquez stated earlier this week {that a} factory Ducati ride was not his only option for 2025, revealing different producers had already began talks with him.
“The necessary factor is that I’ve it clear and I do not simply have one possibility,” he stated.
Heading into the 2024 season, Bagnaia signed a brand new two-year contract at Ducati, conserving him on the manufacturing facility squad till at the very least the tip of the 2026 marketing campaign, whereas team-mate Enea Bastianini’s present deal runs out on the finish of this season.
Present MotoGP world championship chief Jorge Martin, who rides for Pramac on a factory-specification Ducati GP24, is within the operating for the manufacturing facility Ducati slot together with Marquez and Bastianini.
All three riders are out of contract at their respective groups on the finish of this season.