A few weeks before reaching the halfway point of the season, some teams have accelerated the transfer market. One of the incentives of this situation has been the sudden exit from the championship by the Suzuki Ecstar team in 2023.
After Pecco Bagnaia’s first victory, Ducati is at the top of the constructors’ championship. However, it took five races for the Borgo Panigale factory to celebrate a success. Thus, the Italians have been the first to launch the movements, and although a definitive resolution is not known, the first information about the 2023 grid could arrive in the coming weeks.
The first person in charge of shedding light on this matter was Paolo Ciabatti . The sports director of the factory assured the microphones of Sky Sport that “the future of Bastianini and Martín will be clear in the month of June”. However, there is only one vacancy in the factory team, so the goal, according to Ciabatti, is “to keep them both”.
In addition, he added that both riders “are working very well”, so Ducati is counting on them for the future.
Despite the fact that Pecco Bagnaia has a seat in the team for the next two years, in 2022 not only the contracts of Martín, Bastianini and Miller expire, but also that of Johann Zarco, so Ducati will be forced to think carefully about how to structure its grill in the future.
At the forefront of this panorama, the name of Jack Miller becomes a clear protagonist, especially after the information that links him to the satellite team of Honda, LCR. Gigi Dall’Igna took a position regarding a hypothetical departure of the Australian in the official team.
“Of course there is always that possibility, but I think that continuity is worthwhile in racing. If a rider is doing well with a motorcycle, he should not think about changing,” he said in relation to the Pramac satellite team, a team to which, according to Miller, the Australian “would be delighted to return”.
