After Valentino Rossi recalled that he is not in love with Marc Márquez and that Ducati’s choice of the Spaniard over Jorge Martín is seen by the rest of the riders as a ‘joke’, the Italian revealed that he believes that this is exactly what led to the end of the relationship between Paolo Campinoti’s team and the manufacturer.
The former rider, one of MotoGP’s greatest ever icons, explained that this controversial choice, when everything seemed to be on track for Martin to (finally) be promoted to the factory team, was what determined Pramac’s farewell to Ducati, as he explained to L’Equipe, quoted by Motosan: ‘The consequence of this is the farewell to the alliance with Prima Pramac’.
Rossi also spoke of how the promotion of Márquez, who will follow at the end of this year after a year with Gresni, also meant the end of a structure and a plan that had been set up in a very specific way:
– Ducati had created an interesting system, with a pyramid that allowed young riders to progress while dreaming of one day joining the factory team. So Pecco moved up, and Martin and Bezzecchi also hoped to do so. And then, all of a sudden, Ducati decided to put Marc.
Davide Tardozzi and Gigi Dall’Igna have already made it clear that the choice was based above all on Márquez’s ability to adapt to a new bike, combined with his competitive performances.