[kropotkin thinks...] - Bautista To Decide Future In Next Two Weeks

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Of the big three Hot Young Things looking to enter MotoGP next year, only the fate of one of them is already settled. Marco Simoncelli has signed a deal to ride for Gresini Honda in MotoGP in 2010, while the futures of 250cc star Alvaro Bautista and World Superbike sensation Ben Spies have yet to be decided. Spies future is not entirely in his own hands, depending in part as it does on where Jorge Lorenzo decides to ride next season, leaving Alvaro Bautista as the next candidate to decide where he will be riding in 2010.

According to the Spanish media, that decision is now less than a couple of weeks away. After the British Grand Prix at Donington, Bautista told the press that he would be taking the next couple of weeks to make up his mind on where he will be riding next year. The main and most obvious candidate is the new Aspar MotoGP team due to be started next season, Jorge Martinez finally getting his wish to run teams in all three classes, with Ducati having assigned Sete Gibernau's old bike to the Aspar team for 2010.

This option has an obvious benefit and an obvious downside. The benefit is that Bautista's contract would not be with Aspar, but directly with Ducati Corse, putting the Spaniard in line to move up to the factory Ducati slot, should he prove able to ride the Ducati Desmosedici to its full potential. And therein lies the danger: So far, no one other than Casey Stoner has proven capable of doing so week in, week out.

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