Present VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi is finalising a transfer to the manufacturing unit Aprilia MotoGP for the upcoming MotoGP season, Motorsport.com understands.
This transfer comes a yr after three-time MotoGP grand prix winner Bezzecchi elected towards a factory-spec Ducati at Pramac for 2024 to stay along with his VR46 set-up on a year-old Desmosedici.
Motorsport.com understands that the operation that can take the present VR46 rider to develop into Jorge Martin’s team-mate within the Aprilia manufacturing unit construction needs to be finalised within the coming days.
In latest days, when talks with Aprilia intensified, Ducati developed a technique to attempt to kill two birds with one stone: the concept was to keep away from dropping Bezzecchi and Pramac by becoming a member of them.
In the end this plan has not come to move and can see Bezzecchi signal for Aprilia, and most definitely that Paolo Campinoti’s Pramac group will signal with Yamaha as its new bike provider.
It’s putting that the #72 rider would somewhat journey an RS-GP than the most recent technology Desmosedici, whose efficiency, on paper, needs to be higher than that of the Aprilia.
Marco Bezzecchi, VR46 Racing Group
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It’s also true that the standard leap of the GP24 has been higher than he had projected, with Bezzecchi struggling for kind on the GP23 up to now after seven rounds – the Italian eleventh within the standings, two behind VR46 team-mate Fabio Di Giannantonio.
It’s clear that the arrival of Marc Marquez within the official Ducati storage in 2025, when he’ll develop into Francesco Bagnaia’s team-mate, has brought about some discomfort, to not say annoyance, in Valentino Rossi’s entourage, within the coaching academy that bears his identify and in VR46.
Motorsport.com understands that Ducati and VR46 are one step away from renewing their alliance and fortifying it slightly extra with manufacturing unit bikes, offered that Pramac accepts Yamaha’s proposal.
Exactly because of this, these from Tavullia see the addition of the #93 as a menace to the ecosystem that has dominated till now; that which has seen Bagnaia rejoice the final two MotoGP titles, and that which has positioned VR46 as the proper ally for Ducati.
“What is evident is that Marc’s signing has not gone down properly,” a VR46 supply tells this author. “It isn’t simply that he has blown the model’s philosophy out of the water, but in addition that he will definitely not carry stability.”
The addition of such a controversial determine as Marquez to the VR46 universe could properly have prompted a response of distrust on the a part of Bezzecchi, who additionally suits completely with the profile Aprilia is in search of – an Italian producer that expects to welcome with open arms a rider of the identical nationality.
