Alex Marquez has been reminded that teaming up in the identical storage together with his brother once more is very unlikely.
The Marquez brothers have been teammates final season at Gresini Ducati, and briefly earlier than at Honda.
However their alliance was damaged when Marc Marquez stepped as much as the manufacturing unit Ducati staff, alongside Pecco Bagnaia this season.
Geared up with the newest Ducati equipment, the GP25, Marc has dismantled his opposition and is on the right track for a ninth world championship.
However it’s Alex Marquez, on an older Ducati, who has most intently opposed him, fairly than Bagnaia who has equal equipment.
Alex Marquez to manufacturing unit Ducati just isn’t ‘actuality’
But Alex has been instructed any hope of carrying pink is misplaced.
“Sure, each a part of him would love the manufacturing unit seat alongside his brother,” TNT Sports activities’ Michael Laverty mentioned.
“It might be additional particular for everybody. I simply don’t know if it’s a actuality to displace an Italian champion in what’s an Italian manufacturing unit staff.
“Alex has to do every thing he can, and hope that Ducati reward him with a step up.”
Neil Hodgson mentioned: “I’d be actually stunned if Alex signed for the manufacturing unit Ducati staff.
“The manufacturing unit Ducati staff have their A-man, Marc. And can be extra inclined to signal another person of their early-20s fairly than Alex, who’s 29.
“I can’t think about them signing Alex as a 31-year-old, are you able to?”
In pre-season it first emerged that Ducati’s 2024 bike is likely to be higher than the newest evolution.
Bagnaia has by no means obtained to grips with the GP25, though the esteemed Marc Marquez has tamed it.
VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio, the third rider with a GP25, has been inconsistent regardless of theoretically having the most effective bike.
But the GP24 riders, significantly Gresini’s Alex, have been constant.
His teammate Fermin Aldeguer has additionally claimed his maiden MotoGP podium and can fancy himself as a future manufacturing unit rider.
Aged simply 20 and impressing in his rookie marketing campaign, Aldeguer is contracted by Ducati and extremely fancied by the producer.
However, for now and subsequent 12 months, there isn’t any purpose to consider their religion in Bagnaia will expire.
Bagnaia even mentioned that he retains the backing of CEO Claudio Domenicali.