Bagnaia has been a Ducati rider for his whole MotoGP profession since his debut in 2019 with Pramac Racing, incomes a step as much as the manufacturing unit squad in 2021.
In 2022, Bagnaia ended a 15-year title drought for the Italian producer and backed that up with a second championship final yr after beating Ducati rival Jorge Martin within the season showdown in Valencia.
Though the information took slightly longer than anticipated to be confirmed, the predictions of common supervisor Gigi Dall’Igna that Ducati would be capable of signal Bagnaia to a brand new contract forward of the 2024 season getting underway this weekend in Qatar had been proved true on Monday afternoon.
Consequently, the 27-year-old double MotoGP champion is dedicated within the medium-term throughout the Ducati construction till the tip of 2026.
“I’m very pleased to have the ability to proceed racing with the workforce of my desires,” Bagnaia stated.
“Carrying these colors is an honour for me. It is unbelievable and a supply of satisfaction. Along with Ducati, my workforce and all of the folks at Ducati Corse we’ve got been capable of do unbelievable issues and in these three years forward of us we are going to proceed to provide the utmost to attempt to obtain extra success.”
Dall’Igna added: “Pecco was the primary Italian to win a world title in MotoGP on an Italian bike.
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Group
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“Collectively we’ve got delivered to Bologna a world championship that we hadn’t gained for 15 years. He’s a two-time champion and greater than as soon as he has proven that he greater than deserves the primary on his fairing.”
Though the phrases of the contract are strictly confidential, the Italian producer’s wage coverage means that Bagnaia will earn round seven million euros in fundamental wage, to be supplemented by a variable quantity relying on outcomes.
On this regard, it must be famous that if Bagnaia had been to win his third consecutive world championship, his monetary compensation would almost definitely be round 10 million euros.
With a very powerful rider within the Ducati steady secured, the principle unknown throughout the construction turns into the id of the rider who will occupy the opposite facet of the manufacturing unit storage – a spot presently stuffed by five-time race winner Enea Bastianini.
Bastianini, 2023 runner-up Jorge Martin and, likely, Marc Marquez are within the working for that seat, supplied that the Spaniard can meet the expectations generated by his transfer to Gresini, the place he could have at his disposal a Ducati from final yr.
Final week Motorsport.com reported that Ducati had already signed Moto2 frontrunner Fermin Aldeguer to a cope with Pramac for the 2025 season, which is able to see him substitute both Martin or Franco Morbidelli.
Bagnaia’s 2026 deal means he’s the second rider on the grid presently contracted past 2025, after KTM secured Brad Binder to an extra season halfway by means of final yr.
Each Bagnaia and Binder, in addition to Honda’s Luca Marini and his LCR counterpart Johann Zarco, are the one riders who’ve offers in place past 2024 presently.
