In 2023, Gresini Racing carried out a stunt by recruiting Marc Márquez for the 2024 MotoGP season. This 12 months he’s driving alongside his youthful brother Álex Márquez for the Italian racing workforce and has made an enormous impression within the first 5 race weekends. His performances have made him one of many prime candidates to maneuver to the Ducati manufacturing unit workforce in 2025 to develop into Francesco Bagnaia’s new teammate. In that case, Gresini must search for a brand new driver, however that’s one thing that’s not instantly assumed. “We can’t deny that [zowel Álex als Marc Márquez behouden] is plan A for us,” says workforce supervisor Michele Masini in dialog with Motorsport.com.
The truth that Gresini’s preliminary plan at present assumes an extended keep for the Márquez brothers doesn’t imply that the workforce isn’t desirous about a backup. “You at all times must have plans and there’ll at all times be plans,” Masini acknowledges, who then emphasizes that the motive force market will stay very turbulent within the coming weeks and months. “It is clear that it is a scenario that can trigger a sequence response. The highest drivers would be the first to make strikes, then the remainder of the grid will comply with.”
Manufacturing unit engine pure subsequent step
The Márquez brothers must make do with Gresini this 12 months with the Ducati Desmosedici GP23, which received the world title final 12 months within the palms of Bagnaia. Acquiring essentially the most present manufacturing unit engine appears to be a situation for a minimum of with the ability to retain Marc Márquez in 2025, however in the intervening time primarily Pramac and VR46 are competing for that privilege. But Masini believes {that a} manufacturing unit engine wouldn’t be misplaced for his employer.
“We’ve a contract with Ducati for 2025. We work very intensively and nicely collectively. The connection is rising, as a result of that is solely the third 12 months of the collaboration. Gresini Racing has at all times had the ambition to develop into a producer’s reference workforce sooner or later. however I do not know if that can occur quickly or solely later,” stated Masini. “We’ve loads of expertise and getting a manufacturing unit engine is a pure subsequent step on our path.”
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