Ducati admits it’s “occupied with” offering Alex Marquez with a factory-spec bike for the 2026 MotoGP season.
Gresini Racing’s Alex Marquez has all the time ridden year-old Ducati bikes since becoming a member of the Italian group for the 2023 season.
With Pramac ending its manufacturing facility ties with Ducati on the finish of 2024, works assist shifted to the VR46 squad – however just for Fabio Di Giannantonio’s aspect of the storage.
However after the primary half of the season, Alex Marquez has been the very best of the satellite tv for pc Ducati riders, profitable a grand prix at Jerez and a dash at Silverstone, with constant podium outcomes holding him second within the championship.
Talking on Friday on the Austrian Grand Prix, Alex Marquez stated he’s now having to “survive” on the GP24 as updates from Ducati have slowed and rival producers have caught up.
Sky Italy additionally revealed an interview with VR46’s Uccio Salucci, who stated: “We talked to [Gigi] Dall’Igna and [Mauro] Grassilli.
“They’d proposed to us to have each official bikes in 2026. We reasoned and determined to remain like this [with] one full manufacturing facility bike and the opposite not.”
Requested on Saturday on the Austrian Grand Prix about the potential for increasing its manufacturing facility bike providing in 2026 to improve Alex Marquez’s equipment, Ducati group boss Mauro Grassilli stated: “We’re nonetheless engaged on it. We don’t know but what number of official bikes there can be subsequent 12 months.
“However we’re engaged on it and perhaps within the subsequent month, the subsequent few weeks, we’ll determine and we’ll inform you what number of bikes we could have subsequent 12 months.
“They [Gresini] are doing an excellent job, Gresini and Alex as effectively, additionally [Fermin] Aldeguer is doing very effectively. However for the bikes it’s a special story.”
Engine improvement for the 2026 season for producers not ranked D within the concessions standings has been frozen, which in principle ought to make it simpler for Ducati to provide a fourth manufacturing facility bike.
However Grassilli says there are a variety of things to contemplate earlier than it commits.
“There are a whole lot of subjects now we have to know and analyse,” he added.
“It’s not solely about engine or the financial stuff. It’s about all the things. We’re occupied with it.”
