Britain’s Cal Crutchlow will remain with the factory Ducati MotoGP with Andrea Dovizioso for the 2015 season, ending speculation that he was set to use a get-out clause in his contract and switch to either Suzuki or a satellite Honda team.

Ducati Corse boss Paolo Ciabatti confirmed the deal at Misano World Ducati, and also said that decisions on what they can do for Pramac Ducati rider Andrea Iannaone and his exact technical package would be taken next week.

“Dovizioso has renewed his contract this morning, Cal has a contract with us for next season and he will continue in the ‘official’ team next year,” said Ciabbati. Iannone has done even better than we expected and we want him to stay with us. We want to offer him better technical support and next week we should be able to decide how to do it, what the contract will be and the exact technical package,” he said.