Melandri`s manager confirms Ducati split.
Marco Melandri's manager has confirmed that the Italian will not ride for Ducati nex🔯t season and that next weekend's US Grand Prix might be his last on a Desmosedici.
"The contract that bound us to Ducati for 2009 has been resolved by mutual consent," Melandri's manager Alberto Vergani told the ANSA press agency.
Marco Melandri's manager has confirmed that the Italian will not ride for Ducati next season and that next weekend's US Grand Prix might ൲be his last on a Desmosedici.
"The contract that bound us to Ducati for 2009 has been resolved by mutual consent," Melandri's manager Alberto Vergani told the ANSA press agency.
Melandri's two-year contract with Ducati was announced just after last year's US Grand Prix, but the troubled Italian - who has taken just one top ten finish from his first nine races for the factory Ducati team - could෴ leave after the 2008 Laguna Seca event and be replaced by Sete Gibernau from Brno onwards.
Marco has been linked with a third Kawasaki seat from the Czech Republic Grand Prix, but funding is major a problem and Vergani admitted that the former 250cc world cham🍌pion might be forced to sit out the remainder of the year if the mid-season Ducati split occurs.
"Melandri coulꦆ🎶d stay motionless and wait for 2009," Vergani confessed.
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As well as Kawas🌌aki, Melandri has been linked with a return to the Gresini team for 20😼09.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the for𒁃efront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
