The 2024 season is destined to go down in history for sensational market coups, such as Hamilton in Ferrari and Marquez in the official Ducati
June 7, 2024
Levery season it flares up but not due to the temperatures that are starting to rise throughout the peninsula. The pilots market started decidedly early this year, more precisely the February 1, 2024 with Mercedes’ announcement that Lewis Hamilton he would no longer be part of the team starting from the last Grand Prix on the calendar, that of Abu Dhabi. A few hours later, at 8:00 pm, the official press release arrived Scuderia Ferrari with the confirmation that the seven-time world champion will wear red starting from 2025 instead of Carlos Sainz. The same fate also befell another world champion, albeit on two wheels.
Swe’re talking about Marc Marquez who, after his historic farewell to Honda last year, joined the ranks of Borgo Panigale with a saddle in Gresini, alongside his brother Alex. The Spanish rider found himself in Ducati the splendid form that in the past allowed him to win eight world titles, including two in MotoGP. His performances convinced the Ducati Lenovo Team to put him under contract for next season, entrusting him with the Desmosedici GP Enea Bastianiniwho will now have to find another alternative with Jorge Martin who has already found a saddle in Aprilia as a substitute for Alexei Espargaròclose to retirement. The story of Marc Marquez has many similarities with that of Lewis Hamiltonbut in particular that of having completed what are probably the most sensational market coups of the last twenty years of Formula 1 and MotoGP.
Marc Marquez in Ducati Lenovo Team from 2025
QThis similarity was also taken into consideration by Hamilton who, while Marquez is resting after his fourth place in Mugello, is in Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix 2024. “This is fantastic news, Marc is incredible. I love MotoGP and I am enthusiastic about the future of this sport” declared the Mercedes driver in the press conference. “I believe that with Liberty Media they will learn a lot about what happened in Formula 1 and there will be great growth. The races are wonderful and seeing Marquez on the Ducati will be great. There Ducati it has always been a very nice bike and from a sportsman’s point of view it is always nice to have a new environment, a new challenge, new people, new goals. There’s always a little extra tension and uncertainty of knowing if you’ll adapt well to that environment, but it’s exciting when they welcome you. I can’t wait to see Marquez in red”.
Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc
UThe quarter of the season has already been archived but attention is already focused on the future, especially in Formula 1 as the new technical regulations for single-seaters for 2026. We will first have to see how coexistence will go next year, with Charles Leclerc And Francesco Bagnaia who will have to get used to sharing the garage with two legends of four- and two-wheeled motorsport. To avoid highly heated situations, the management of the team by the team principals will be fundamental, Frédéric Vasseur And Davide Tardozzi. What is certain, however, will be the spectacle on the track with such talents dressed in red, carrying the Italian flag high in both Formula 1 and MotoGP.
Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia
