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UPDATE: Avintia has now issued a press release confirming Johann Zarco's arrival alongside Tito Rabat for the 2020 MotoGP season.

An official announcement may still be pending, but Johann Zarco looks to have confirmed that he will be an Avintia Ducati rider in MotoGP next season.

Karel Abraham has posted an emotional tribute after losing his place at the Reale Avintia Ducati team for 2020, which opens up a place set to be filled by Johann Zarco.

Johann Zarco's 2020 destination looks to have been decided following the news that Karel Abraham has announced an end to his MotoGP career, freeing up a place for the Frenchman at the Reale Avintia team.

Tito Rabat claimed his second-best finish of the season with eleventh place in the German MotoGP at Sachsenring. But it may already be too late to keep his seat at the Reale Avintia team, which openly admits to seeking a 'young kid' from Moto2 to push the team forwards in 2020.

After ‘riding in a programmed way’ Jordi Torres has continued to make key progress as stand-in rider at Avintia Ducati taking 19 th place and finishing just two seconds behind team-mate Xavier Simeon using the older Ducati.

Jordi Torres will make his second MotoGP appearance, with Reale Avintia Ducati, at this weekend's inaugural Thailand round.

Karel Abraham will switch to Reale Avintia Racing on a two-year deal and with contest the 2019 MotoGP world championship on the GP18-specification Ducati.

Tito Rabat’s team-mate Xavier Simeon will compete on his Reale Avintia Ducati GP17 at the Misano round with Christophe Ponsson joining the team for his MotoGP debut.

It was a bittersweet post-race MotoGP test for Tito Rabat at Jerez, the Avintia Ducati rider improving both his qualifying and race pace, but knowing 'the test doesn't count' for points.

Tito Rabat continued his best ever start to a MotoGP season with a fighting eighth place in Sunday's COTA round.

Tito Rabat is looking to continue his best ever start to a MotoGP season in Austin this weekend. After a 15th place on his Reale Avintia Ducati debut in Qatar, Rabat celebrated a career-best seventh, from fourth on the grid, in Argentina.

Tito Rabat backed up his fourth on the grid start with a MotoGP best of seventh place in Sunday's Argentina MotoGP. The new Reale Avintia rider finished just half-a-second behind factory Ducati star and Qatar winner Andrea Dovizioso, riding the latest GP18 machine.

The all-new Reale Avintia line-up of Tito Rabat and Xavier Simeon have unveiled their 2018 MotoGP colours in Madrid. Former Moto2 world champion Rabat, who will race a GP17 Ducati, joins the team after spending two seasons on a Marc VDS Honda.

While cautious of jumping to any conclusions before the racing has started, Tito Rabat feels 'the happiest I've been in MotoGP' after switching from Honda to Ducati machinery.

The final 'official' vacancy on the 2018 MotoGP grid has been filled, with Xavier Simeon announced as stepping up from Moto2 to join the Reale Avintia Ducati team.

"We have a list of five or six and obviously the current riders are on that list"

"It is not a full seamless, just [when] shifting up from second to sixth gear"

Avintia team to make its Ducati MotoGP debut this weekend at Aragon.

Lap times as of 6pm, at the end of Monday's post-race MotoGP test at Catalunya, Spain.

Lap times as of 1pm during the post-race MotoGP test at Catalunya.

Race results from the Catalunya MotoGP at Barcelona, round 6 of 18.

Race results from the Catalunya Moto3 Grand Prix at Barcelona, round 6 of 17.