u/boliver15

Really struggling to wrap my head around why Ducati would choose Franco over Gonzalez for their factory WSBK seat next year.

Manu is younger and clearly faster at this point. He's also leading the moto2 championship. I get that Franco is Italian and has more experience, but he's honestly been in decline for several years.

Is it really just the Italian thing with them having already signed Iker or is there something else at play? My conspiracy theory is VR46 made it a condition of them taking Bulega in MotoGP.