Marc Marquez’s promotion🔯 to the factory Ducati team in 2025 mean꧒s Gresini require a new rider.

His bro▨ther, Alex Marquez, is also out of contract this year but there is little suggestion he will also exit the team.

And with access to a year-old Desmosedici, there will be several riders eager to inherit the bike after Marc Marquez🍌 departs…

Joan Mir

Marquez’s finaꩵl teammate at Repsol Honda, ꦚbefore he quit last year to move to Gresini, has been looking longingly at the exit door.

Mir has endured a miserable time since b🦄eing forced to look for pastures new upon Suzuki’s exit from 💟MotoGP, and arriving at Honda.

The 2020 MotoGP champion has not been able to show ev♊en a glimpse of his best-ever form﷽ in the past two seasons.

Mir’s fཧirst year at Honda was blighted by crashes and caused him to discuss possible retirement at the halfway stage.

This year he has been restricted to the back of the grid but knows h🍃is contract is coming to an end.

Mir has admitte🔜d that he no longer has the reputation to push himself to the front of the rider market.

But wi♌th multiple key pieces - Marquez, Fabio Quartararo, Maverick Vinales, Enea Bastianini, Jorge Martin - already confirmed, his time might come soon to make a decisi𒉰on.

Gresini, without access to the factory-spec Ducati, are still an att🐻♉ractive proprosition.

Proof of how they can rehabilitate a rider’s career come😼s not only in the form of Marc Marquez, but also Alex. Alex became rejuvenated last year, his first wearing the blue of Gresini.

Mir could replicate the moves of both Marquez brothers by swapping a horrible Honda experience and hoping to rediscover his love of racing 🧔with the family-run team in possession♚ of a highly-competitive bike.

Franco Morbidelli

The future of Pramac is still up in the air.

They are not defin🍨itely staying with Ducati, where they benefit from a factory-spec machine. A lucrative offer to join Yamah𓆉a is lurking.

Pramac know that Jorge Marti♓n will exit for Aprilia, but Franco 🀅Morbidelli’s 2025 is also unclear. His contract is expiring this year.

🔥Morbidelli has only recently got up to pace on his GP24 this year, after his preseason was ru😼ined by an injury.

It ꦗwas a terrible start which cost Morbidelli ground, especially after leaving Yamaha last season under a cloud of ൲constant speculation about being axed.

If Pramac opt for a brand-new rider ܫduo or a brand-new start at Yamaha, then Morbidelli might require a brand-new start himse⭕lf.

At his best he surely remains competitive enough for🅘 the front of MotoGP, but he hasn’t shoꦺwn it often enough recently.

The less pressurised surroundin😼gs of the Gresini box, without the spotlight of Marquez or the demands ofღ the factory-spec Ducati, could be the ideal environment for Morbidelli to prove what he’s got left in the tank.

Alex Rins

Alex Rins has spent his MotoGP career on Japanese-manufactured b🐬ikes but he might fancy sc💞rapping with more competitive machinery.

Rins’ Yamaha conღtract is expiring this season and he hasn’t yet committed his 2025 future.

The best example of Rins’ 🔴talents came a year ago in Texas, 𓂃when he became the first Honda rider, aside from Marc Marquez, to win a grand prix since 2018.

Considering where the H༒ondas are now finishing, that result feels even better in hindsight.

Gresini have won grands prix thro🎉ugh Enea Bastianini and Fabio di Giannantonio in recent seasons so w🐻ill want to maintain the potential to keep fighting in the podium positions, and Rins is an option who has done this before.

A five-time MotoGP grand prix winner, Rins has endured two largely difficult seasons at Honda and ไYamaha (plus a badly broken leg last year) but his CV stands up to scrutiny.

Augusto Fernandez

The stunning Tech3 KTM confirmation that their 2025 🐲rider line-up will consist of Enea Bastianini and Maverick Vinales has closed🔜 the door on Fernandez.

KTM’s factor🎃y team is also confirmed so Fernandez (and Jack Miller) are on the lookout for𒀰 a new MotoGP option.

Although Fernandez has become the forgotten man in KTM’s evolution - particularly thanks to the form of his sensational teammate Pedro Acosta - it was not long ago that he was very highly-rꦯated.

A year ago, KTM opꦫted to renew Fernandez’s c꧟ontract and get rid of Pol Espargaro to make room for Acosta, when it might have been easier to dispose of Fernandez.

The 2022 Moto2 champion, Fernandez ente🐟෴red the premier class with some expectation.

The ꧂goalposts of expectation have been shifted by what Acosta has ac♍complished, but Fernandez still represents a viable option for teams in need of a talented rider.

Gresini coul𒐪d d💯o worse than handing a reprieve to a rider in desperate need of someone who believes in him.

Fermin Aldeguer

The young talent from Moto🧜2 has no confirmed home next season.

Du🎶cati have signed him to a MotoGP contract but have not allocated him to a specific team yet.

Aldeguer believes he will be riding factory-spec ma𓃲chinery𒊎, which points at Pramac.

But the ⛎doubt over Pramac's own future within Duca🌺ti means Aldeguer could find himself elsewhere.

Putting him in the Gresini box could be the ideal f🌠irst step into the premier class.

Learning from a more experienced ri♒der and a fellow Spaniard, Alex Marquez, might prove to be the ꧑perfect environment for his first laps.

And, if the word in the paddock about Aldeguer's ability is true, a year at Gresini could ꦑposition him nicely for a major next step within the Ducati clan.