Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia began their Ducati alliance with a handshake.
The brand new Ducati Lenovo teammates arrived for “the primary day of college”, because the producer jokingly labelled it, on Thursday.
Ducati cheekily posted photos of their brand-new rider duo mid-way via the launch of Aprilia’s 2025 MotoGP bike, which featured Jorge Martin unveiling the #1.
Martin was pressured to hunt pastures new as a result of Ducati selected Marquez for his or her manufacturing unit workforce as a substitute.
Marquez has now arrived for Day 1 of labor with the official workforce, and swiftly got here face-to-face with Bagnaia.
They met with a handshake nevertheless it gained’t quell expectations of their rivalry for the brand new season.
As nice as Marquez and Bagnaia are as a rider duo, Ducati may face an uphill battle to maintain each males blissful.
They are going to each have their eye on ripping away Martin’s championship – and will get in one another’s method.
The connection contained in the field will come underneath scrutiny, in a method that it by no means has when Bagnaia teamed with Enea Bastianini.
Marquez represents considerably of a change in philosophy from Ducati’s standard plan to advertise younger expertise from inside.
However his genius on Gresini’s year-old machine final season satisfied their bosses to choose him.
Marquez and Bagnaia (and VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio) will experience the GP25, the factory-spec Ducati which would be the greatest machine on the MotoGP grid this 12 months.
How lengthy can the handshake between Marquez and Bagnaia final earlier than issues get tetchy?
