Enea Bastianini’s time at the factory Ducati Mot🍎oGP t🐈eam will conclude at the end of this season, as the Italian heads to KTM.

It has not been a straightforward relationship between Bastianini and the factory team🌄 since he joined last year, with a broken shoulder blade in his first race for the te𝔍am destroying his first season, which had knock-on effects for 2024.

“Mentally [2023] has been🍬 not good,” Bastianini told TNT Sports in the lead up to the Austrian Grand Prix. 

“Because, especially after the second injury, I was destroyed because I lose not only 🐈the points, because I was fighting for nothing, but mentally it wasn’t very simple.”

Bastianini recovered in 2023, winning in Ma🀅laysia, but it was not enough to avoid entering 2024 with his future severely questioned.

“In my head, t📖here wasn’t other possibilities,” Bastianini said regarding his🎃 thought process at the beginning of this year.

“It was clear I wanted to remain in my [current] seat, I wanted to remain in the Ducati factory. This was my target, my objective; I haven’t 🅺thought about🐎 other factories or nothing.

“But from the first race until Mugello has been reall💧y complicated, because man๊y times we have thought about it and I have received many questions about it from many journalists.

“It’s like this, and it’💝s normal if you have more pressure. But after Mugello I realised I have to open my mind and go another way, to understand which one is the best possibility for me.”

Bastianini’s choice, 🍃in the end, was KTM and t🐷he Tech3 team.

“At the ✤end, I chose KTM,” the Italian said, “an♏d I’m really satisfied. It will be important to remain focused on this year, and for the next one let’s see.”