Former MotoGP rider Marco Melandri: “Bagnaia and Ducati were a couple, but now they are just relatives. Marquez Acosta would be a dream team.”

Pecco Bagnaia 2025 was a terrible year for its profits. when he was considered a great rival of Marc MarquezThe box is shared with the official team of. ducatiItalians experienced their worst season MotoGP. With only two wins throughout the year, they finished 5th in the overall standings, and Marc won by a landslide on the same bike and became the champion.

The problem for the three-time world champion was not just the gap to Marc, but his confidence in the GP25 was so dramatic that he had crashed every Sunday since the Indonesian Grand Prix. Or five consecutive zeros to end the year.

It is clear that it is impossible to maintain such a situation in 2026. Therefore, many already see Bagnaia’s recovery with Ducati as impossible. Some people who think this way, Marco MelandriFormer rider of MotoGP Italian team.

“From the outside looking in, the relationship between the parties appears to be gradually disintegrating. Once upon a time, Pecco and Ducati were a couple, but now they are just relatives. There is greater harmony and a strong and close bond between them. I don’t think it will last until 2027.But maybe I was wrong,” Melandri said in an interview with GPOne.

One of the players who could be a candidate to replace Pecco Bagnaia is Pedro Acostahas been associated in some way with an Italian factory for many months. Despite mere rumors, Melandri believes his arrival will form a “dream team”.

“Marquez-Acosta would be a dream team in every sense of the word. Ducati must think about programming Acosta’s own future. Considering his age, I think that’s the natural and best choice. He’s a young, very strong, animal who always gives his all on the bike. You can see that with KTM as well. “I think this is a fair election that we cannot afford to lose as we head towards 2027,” he concluded.