While the riders give their best on the Montmèlo track which hosts the Catalan Grand Prix this weekend, the ninth round of the MotoGP championship, behind the scenes in Barcelona are also the scene of tough negotiations with a view to 2023 and beyond . Here are the latest trends since Fabio Quartararo unblocked the market with his renewal at Yamaha until 2024…
And it is on the side of KTM that the agitation seems to be at its height because if we follow the rumors going around, there would practically be nothing left but Brad Binder as an old acquaintance on the RC16 from next year. So, Jack Miller, become very discreet in the official box Ducati, has reportedly signed a two-year contract to serve in the Mattighofen factory team. For the Australian, whose manager is Aki Ajo, close if anything to the Austrian staff, it is a return to his roots since he revealed himself with this brand in 2014 during the Moto3 days. He is also a devotee of the equally Austrian energy drink. A trend revealed by speedweek, which also has its sources within the brand and which was confirmed by the pilot himself.
Thus, the sporting director of Ducati, Paolo Ciabatti, admitted on Saturday to journalists in Montmeló that Jack Miller probably won’t be sitting on a Desmosedici in 2023.” Yes, they have their plans. You have to say it“, said Jack Miller. «At the moment there is no official announcement. I will announce my plans as soon as the time is right and I will know. We will announce it together."
A duel looms in MotoGP between Oliveira and Rins for a Ducati Gresini
The same site continues by placing Pol Espargaro in Tech3. He is also a Red Bull driver and for the Spaniard it would be a reunion with Hervé Poncharal, whom he served under the banner Yamaha from 2014 to 2017. It would also be a return to KTM, since it was from the early hours of the RC16 project. It is not yet known who his teammate would be, between Remy gardner and Raul Fernandez who are already in the place, or neither, but it certainly won't be Miguel Oliveira who refused the transfer.
For the Portuguese, he said to himself that he would head towards Ducati Gresini where he would be guaranteed to have a GP23. A state-of-the-art machine, therefore, that we would not have assured him at RNF Aprilia where there will be two RS-GP 2022. One of them would be for alex rins, who would not, however, have renounced the Desmosedici Gresini. Following the next number…
