Ducati could not keep all of🍸 their star MotoGP riders and are justified in picking ꦅMarc Marquez, it is claimed.

Marq🎃uez will be promoted from Gresini i🦩nto the factory Ducati team for 2025, significantly meaning he will profit from better machinery.

Although he has won gr♓ands prix on a year-old Desmosedici this season, Marquez will have identical equipment and supp🎃ort to Pecco Bagnaia next year when he dreams of winning another title.

But although Marquez’s✱ future is secured, Ducati will lose Enea Bastianini to KTM, Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi to Aprilia, and🍎 their Pramac satellite team to Yamaha.

But ex-MotoGP💖 team boss Livio Suppo told  there is logic to Ducati’s decision-making: "Of course.

“If you are in the situation of Ducati, in which you have the🌼 best bike and practically all the strongest riders to ride it, it becomes very diffiꦕcult.

“Because it is practically impossible to maintain, ওeven only on an economic level.

“Consider that they arrived at this🍒 situation starting with young guys who were cheap, but the more they win the more expensive they cost..

“You can't give millions of euros to ℱfour riders. So they had to make ch🧔oices.

“It was normal that th🦩ey would not go on forever like this.

“Evidently 🐠Gigi Dall’Igna preferred M🐽artin to go to the competition, not Marquez.”

Ducati developed M🍌artin, Bezzecchi and Bastianini into the premier class 💞race winners and title contenders that they have become.

But the ♐desire of each rider to benefit from factory support has led to their exit.

Choosing Marquez goes against Ducati’s philosophy of raising up-and-coming youngsters b🔯ut his brilliant victories t💎his season made it clear why he was selected.

The 2025 grid will be notably different because Ducati’s presence will reduce from eight biꦇkes to six, as Pramac join Yamaha.

And there will be only three factory Ducatis (Bagnaia, Marquez and VR46’s Fa﷽bio di Giannantonio) rather than the four that compete this year.