Jorge Martin will race with Aprilia starting from the 2025 World Championship in place of Aleix Espargaro. This was announced by the team’s CEO Massimo Rivola. Plot twist after Ducati’s choice to focus on Marc Marquez.
MotoGP twist: Jorge Martin will run with theAprilia starting from the 2025 World Cup in place of Aleix Espargaro. The team’s CEO announced it Massimo Rivola in a post on Instagram. A video on the official Aprilia page in which Rivola appears sitting down to welcome Martin himself into his office, having been invited in by Espargaro himself. Incredible how the announcement came after the sensational rumor according to which Ducati has decided to focus on Marc Marquez alongside Bagnaia from the next World Cup.
Martin now seemed ready to be promoted from the Pramac team to the official Ducati and instead the choice to focus on Marquez ended up reshuffling the cards. The Aprila note reveals the details of the agreement with Martin: “He has signed a multi-year contract with Aprilia Racing starting from 2025, the Team and the entire Piaggio Group welcome a rider who best represents the desire to establish himself at the top of MotoGP”.
Aprilia’s immediate agreement with Martin
For Aprilia, Martin’s hiring is without a doubt an important blow for the growth of the team and its ambitions for the future. Make sure thethe current leader of the World Championship and 2023 MotoGP world vice-champion is certainly an important message to Ducati. A pure talent ready to already launch the challenge to the next Ducati couple now ready only to be announced, formed by Marc Marquez himself – who he is doing very well with the Desmosedici GP23 of the Gresini team – and Pecco Bagnaia.
Aprilia reveals how the opportunity to sign Martin came about: “It all happened in one night”
Initially there was also talk of contacts with KTM for Martin, but in the end after the announcement there were no longer any doubts: he will race in the black suit in 2025. The possibility of racing with Bagnaia, who had not let anything slip out about his next teammate on the Ducati from the next World Championship: “They asked me for my opinion on the new partner – he revealed -. I’m only interested in ensuring that whoever arrives doesn’t ruin the environment…”. The choice therefore fell on Marc Marquez with Martin in Aprilia for a 2025 World Championship which already promises to be heated.
