At Ducati, we have started to play the game of musical chairs, a game that will be done internally. The throne of Andrea Dovizioso is currently being negotiated and is monopolizing all the attention of the decision-makers in Borgo Panigale. However, the second handlebar within the official team is discussed. To the great displeasure of Francesco Guidotti who had pushed the Bagnaia pawn, it was his other pilot Pramac Jack Miller who would hold the rope. We almost forget the one who still has the job in the person of Danilo Petrucci. Whose coast would be quite low…
At the beginning of the year, Pecco Bagnaia announced that the handlebars for after 2020 would almost all be distributed during the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez. But that was before we knew about the coronavirus and the horrors of confinement. Here we are in May, for a season that we hope to see start in July and guess where? HAS Jerez ! The irony of fate is all the more noted as the prognosis of bagnaia going back to winter is likely to be verified. Because the July 19 remains a late date with a view to 2021. The contracts will therefore, for the most part, be effectively fixed before this first race of the year.
Negotiations are currently taking place at Ducati who warned that the days of paying 25 million for a pilot were over. Andrea Dovizioso takes note of the new situation which will not affect everyone in the same way. It is said that a motorcycle manufacturer should suffer much more than a brand specializing in energy drinks! Who can be more generous...
The fact remains that this long period undermines those who did not finish the previous campaign well. They are pushed into the shadows by opponents with the opposite course. Fact Danilo Petrucci is under direct threat of Jack Miller which, according to GP One, has every chance of soon seeing a red suit. And Petrux? It wouldn't even be a return to Pramac who would still prefer a Andrea Iannone available. The one that Dovizioso was to transform into a model team member would be transferred to WSBK alongside an old acquaintance: Scott Redding.
A plan that puts Chaz Davies offside and who can alert Petrucci on the opportunities to be defined at KTM ou Aprilia, with a view to remaining in MotoGP. To be continued…
