A necessary premise: let’s not convince ourselves that everything depended and was decided on the last weekend of Mugello. It would not be credible and correct, much less telling it by the writer to those who decide to read these same lines.
Surely, yes, Mugello has dissolved the last reservations for the Ducati leaders, at the very moment in which the declarations of the CEO of Borgo Panigale, Claudio Domenicalibroadened the scope of evaluation to include elements that were not only purely technical: “The arrival of Marquez (in Ducati Gresini, ed.) it was one of the best executed marketing campaigns”.
And so the circle closes: Marquez still in Ducati but with the red suit, and for the next two years, of the official team. Simply because Marquezat thirty-one years old, is still and perhaps the only rider on the grid capable of being the architect of his own destiny and that No, clear and decisive, to the possibility of another year in a private team pronounced in the conference on Thursday before Mugello sounded like a wake-up call to Dall’IgnaDomenicali and co: losing Marquez is impossible, even and especially from the point of view of economic return.
Marquez wins, so what about this whole thing? After the divorce with Honda, Marc is finding himself back on the bike Desmosedici and the prospect of seeing it, starting from 2025, with the official version suggests being able to find it as an even more protagonist. Marquez wins as much as Ducati, a little less Pecco Bagnaia, tormented as he will be in the coming months by the idea of having to share the garage and the bike with the strongest rider of the last ten years. For an internal derby that already promises sparks.
AND Jorge Martin? It is obvious that the current World Cup leader, in this whole story, is the most discussed and equally the most disappointed part. For the second time in 48 months he came close to the concrete possibility of wearing the Red suit, but in both cases what seemed like the most logical ending turned into a sensational about-face. In 2022 Bastianininow Marquez, a dynamic that has resulted in the most drastic consequence: break with Ducati and landing in Aprilia.
Official bike, finally, and ambitious team, consider today and in this whole story Martin only a loser risks being a gamble, let’s give time to understand something more. What is certain is that the current World Championship, at this point, is heating up and if Martin was already a nightmare for the official Ducati before, now he will be even more so.
Ducati losing Martin but also risking losing Pramac, given that Paolo Campinoti’s team could choose to become a satellite and flagship team of a Yamaha looking for a relaunch. Ducati, therefore, would lose two bikes on the grid compared to the current eight, with the prospect of an official Desmo, each and from 2025, for VR46 and Gresiniwho unexpectedly and by virtue of what has just been written would find themselves to be partial winners in this whole matter.
In closing, of course, Enea Bastianini. The Beast will lose an official Ducati but risks, on the positive side, riding one KTM equally a starter, paired with another hot-blooded Spaniard with a quick pulse: Pedro Acosta. Can we, ultimately, consider him a loser?
The most intriguing and anticipated market puzzle of the whole Moto GP seems to have been resolved by now, but the doubt remains: who won and who lost from this whole story? As usual, the track will provide the most decisive and effective responses.
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