“Publicity” and “marketing” cited among reasons for Ducati choosing Marc Marquez
“I don🐠’t blame Ducati or their parent company at 🍌all"

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez’s commercial power has been cited as a key reason for why Ducati chose him for their off🌠icial team next year.
Ducati’s big choice for their 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2025 MotoGP rider line-up went Marquez’s way, after a U-turn when it originally seemed Jorge Mar🏅tin would get the nod.
As well as his on-track performances, financial reasons have been mentio𒉰ned for Ducati bringing Marquez into their main garage.
Broadcaster Simon Crafar commented from the Dutch MotoGP this we🧸ekend: “Whether you like it or not, whether you think it was unfair on Jorge, whi🐈ch is quite right…
☂“Whether you think it was the obvious choice to take Marc, which is quite right…
“I don’t blame Ducati or their parent company at all. He 💮gets the most publicity.
“He is s🍸o determined. He makes it happen. In this battle, he’s the only ‘23 machine in it.
“He ha🥃sn’t been💮 on it long. Gigi Dall’Igna sees all the data, he sees what he’s doing, with what he’s got.
“I imagine,ꦦ also, sponsors were keen on it. The parent company, Audi, keen on marketing.
“All of that together, I totally understand why t🔯hey🐷 did it.”
Marc Marquez: Pecco Bagnaia is #1 inside the garage
Pecco Bagnaia claime𓆏d in Assen that Ducati did not c🃏onsult him over the choice for his next teammate.
Marquez aꦍlso insisted that, until th♋ey reunited at Assen this week, they had not spoken about Ducati’s big decision which was made in the days after Mugello.
“No, we didn’t have the cওhance to speak with Pecco,”꧋ Marquez said.
“He’s the champion. For me, it’s something suꦬper nice. This year I am learning ho𓄧w to ride this Ducati from him. Next year we will keep it in the same way.
“He’s the #1 inside the 🥀garage. He is the one that won iꦓn the last two years.
“We will try 100% to b🀅e close to him. On the race t🎀rack we will compete with each other but inside the garage we need to help the team to be the strongest on the grid.”
The atmosphere between🎀 two world champion༺s, Bagnaia and Marquez, as teammates on MotoGP’s best bike next year is certain to be interesting.
But this weekend, at the Dutch MotoG🀅P, their more pressing concern is the title battle.
Pramac’s Martin le☂ads the championship, 18 points ahead of Bagnaia.
Gresini’s Marquez is third, 35 points from Martin, and 🐻still awaits🌄 a maiden victory on a Ducati.
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James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering ever𓆉ything from American sports, to football, to F1.