Cheste.- Just 48 hours before the end of the 2020 season, the VR46 team, which will debut as an independent formation next season in the MotoGP World Championship , has yet to be officially presented, nor has a note with the rider lineup been released. that will ride the prototypes that Ducati will supply, becoming the third satellite team of the Italian manufacturer, which will have eight bikes next season on the queen class grid.
Without the confirmation being fully official, the one who points out that he will be Team Manager of the Italian formation, Pablo Nieto , assured the official website of the championship that Marco Bezzecchi , currently in Moto2, will accompany Luca Marini in the Jerez tests of the next season, setting up the lineup that everyone expected.
When Nieto was asked about the announcement of the team and the riders, the Madrid native admitted that Bezzecchi was going to make his debut with the Ducati in the 2022 pre-season tests to be held at the Andalusian track on November 18 and 19.
“Now we are here in Valencia, next week we will have the test and as everyone knows, we will do it with Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi ”, he said before admitting that his words should be taken as an announcement.
“Yes, we have to do it because next week we will go to Jerez and everyone knows it: Marco will be Luca’s teammate,” he told MotoGP.com .
Nieto also explained that Bezzechi’s place in the Moto2 VR46 team was going to be filled by Academy rider Niccolò Antonelli , who will jump from Moto3 to be Celestino Vietti ‘s teammate in 2022.
What the VR46 Team Manager did not say is who will be the sponsor of the team owned by Valentino Rossi in its debut in MotoGP, a story full of intrigue and mystery that comes from afar and has not yet been definitively revealed.
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