MotoGP and the Honda Racing Corporation are in an odd situation. There is a factory RC213V going spare, and a nominated rider in Scott Redding to sit on it, but no-one is jumping up and down shouting ‘me, me,me’ to lease it.

That may be because of the hefty €3.5m price tag that sits on it that current owner Fausto Gresini can no longer afford to pay and his switch to Aprilia machinery, without the Go&Fun money, is the subject of much well-informed speculation.

Redding is a wanted man. Honda want to keep him, Ducati want to sign him. But he doesn’t know, as yet, where he will end up in 2015 because he doesn’t know where the RC213V he wants to ride will end up. It is certain that wherever the RC213V lands, Redding will be on it.

There are three options for the bike:

MarcVDS

Aspar

LCR

MarcVDS owner Marc Van Der Straten is properly minted. He used to own Stella Artois, among other things. But, like all good dads, he likes his kids to make their own way, so team boss Michael Bartholemy is trying to find ways to make the stack of cash it will cost him to move up from Moto2 to MotoGP work.

As it stands, MarcVDS have no grid slot for 2015 so they would not receive the Dorna freight subsidy and they would have to pay for their tyres like the top 22 teams currently don’t. And they would have to pay the large lease on the bike. Unless, of course, Dorna boss Carmelo Ezpeleta shines his light on them and waives the lot.

If he doesn’t, a quick rummage down the back of the the Van Der Straten sofa would come up with the required change to make it happen. But it would appear, like most rich dads, it doesn’t work like that.

Aspar, apparently, simply don’t have the cash to lease the bike and pay Redding’s wages while LCR have already got one factory bike on which they have placed, on today’s form, the fourth fastest Ducati rider.

If HRC place the bike with Aspar at a hugely reduced cost, then Lucio Cecchinello will be composing an email to Livio Suppo with WTF as the subject line.

Cecchinello probably can’t afford the lease on two works bikes but the smart money would say that his team is the place where that second bike should land if MarcVDS can’t finance it and Jack Miller’s move to MotoGP on a production Honda switches to Aspar. It’s all down to subsidies…

Who then takes the second Aspar seat? Nicky Hayden has a contract for next year but he has just had three bones removed from his hand, and those bones are there for a reason. Leon Camier is there and in the chair. If you’re already in the chair and doing well, then it’s easier to say in the chair.