The Spanish rider completed third in final yr’s Moto2 world championship and proved one of many sensations of the season wherein he gathered a complete of 5 wins, together with the final 4 rounds of the marketing campaign.
Aldeguer already had the potential of becoming a member of the premier class this yr, after curiosity proven by VR46 in its eagerness to discover a alternative for Luca Marini as soon as it was identified that the Italian would race with Honda.
Nevertheless, the penalty clause that 18-year-old Aldeguer needed to face with a view to be launched from his contract together with his present Velocity Up workforce in Moto2 prevented the transfer.
It’s understood that even HRC requested for him after Marc Marquez’s choice to depart for Gresini Ducati, previous to its hiring of Marini.
His relationship with Velocity Up boss Luca Boscoscuro resolved, Aldeguer traveled to Bologna in mid-January and met round a desk for lunch with Gigi Dall’Igna, Ducati’s normal supervisor.
Ducati, who at present provides the MotoGP grid with eight of its bikes, has agreed with him to put Aldeguer within the workshop of the Pramac workforce that has shut manufacturing facility ties.
Fermin Aldeguer, Velocity Up Racing
Photograph by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Pictures
All the pieces appears set for Jorge Martin to face his final yr with Paolo Campinoti’s workforce in 2024, both as a result of for 2025 he can be promoted to the manufacturing facility Ducati workforce – presumably as a alternative for Enea Bastianini – or as a result of he decides to depart the Ducati steady.
Martin had a clause in his contract that will have seen him promoted to the manufacturing facility Ducati squad for 2024 had he gained the championship final yr.
When requested by Motorsport.com about this in Valencia final November, the 2023 runner-up felt that if he hadn’t proved to Ducati he deserved a manufacturing facility tea seat already, he by no means will.
“I feel, sincerely talking, if I didn’t present but my potential for them to be in crimson, I’ll by no means be in crimson as a result of making greater than that is fairly difficult,” he stated.
“And arriving into the final race, ending second, I feel in the event that they didn’t put me there, they gained’t put me anyway.”
Regardless of the curiosity proven in Aldeguer in the course of the closing stretch of final season by VR46, Ducati’s uncertainty surrounding a attainable alliance between the workforce of Valentino Rossi and Yamaha, and the extent of independence maintained by the Tavullia workforce’s construction, has made the producer guess on Pramac for the rookie.
Pramac will unveil its 2024 livery in Bahrain on Wednesday forward of the Formulation 1 season-opener, with the workforce having run F1 logos on its Ducatis since 2021.
