Valentino Rossi’s team gives up Marc Marquez’s bike

No Ducati GP25 for Franco Morbidelli. The VR46 team has decided that the Roman rider will continue to race with the GP24, despite the fact that, being a centaur of the satellite team, he has the opportunity to get on the bike of the last World Championship, dominating with Marc Marquez.

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But the difficulties encountered by Pecco Bagnaia and Fabio Di Giannantonio have prompted Valentino Rossi’s team to stay on the GP24 again next season, as confirmed by chief technician Matteo Flamigni: “Franco will be back on the bike from last year, a bike that both he and the team know very well. I prefer not to get into the controversy, because there has been a lot of talk about it and I do not want to throw gasoline on the fire”, he told AS.

“But there have been moments of great difficulty with the GP25 , although Marquez has managed to make it win on numerous occasions”. Unlike Marquez, who won the World Championship in a chariot, Bagnaia went through a nightmarish season with the GP25, and great difficulties were also encountered by the VR46 team&#8217s other rider, Fabio Di Giannantonio, who will be riding a GP26 this year.

Morbidelli after testing expressed himself this way: “In my opinion I am closer, because last year practically compared to 2024 I had not received any kind of update, instead this year there were several on my bike. That alone is something that puts me in a better position”.

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