Ducati will be the big favorite for the 2023 season, Marc Marquez could be the great warrior again. But the future remains unknown…
Even the season MotoGP 2023 it will be full of surprises and unforeseen events, but with an underlying certainty: the Ducati will be the bike to beat. Pecco Bagnaia is determined to open an era, but it won’t be easy. He will have to deal above all with internal competition, starting with Enea Bastianini and Jorge Martin. There GP23 it promises to be a prototype that will give every rival manufacturer a hard time and it was demonstrated extensively during the last World Championship.
It is certainly no coincidence that the Ducati has excelled in the driver, constructor and team standings. Even the pentachampion Jorge Lorenzo is convinced: “Self (From Igna) continues at Ducati, I think they will have the best bike for the next four or five years“. The Venetian engineer has finally reached that point of perfection he has been chasing for years, “Gigi’s mentality is two steps ahead of the others in terms of innovation, technology, inside the garage he works as if he were an F1 team“.
Marc Marquez tries to challenge Ducati
Gigi Dall’Igna it was able to revolutionize the organization and above all to develop the desmodromic engine, fast and reliable even at high revs. And he was able to organize an all-round competitive team, able to line up eight bikes on the grid, offering a very advantageous and attractive package to the new Gresini and VR46 teams. “Now they have managed to have eight very good drivers – added Jorge Lorenzo – and three of them are mature enough to be very fast and consistent“.
But among the rivals special attention should be paid to Marc Marquez, a champion who was able to dominate far and wide from his debut in MotoGP in 2013 until 2019, winning five out of six titles. After four operations, will he be able to return to his former levels? “When he dominated he had no arm problems and was the youngest of his rivals and now he has an arm that we don’t know if it’s 100%, he’s no longer the youngest, maybe he’s the greatest of the leaders… but he’s changed“.
It remains to be understood if Honda he will be able to give him a winning bike for 2023, otherwise it will be time to make decisions. After twelve years riding the RC213V he could decide to change manufacturer… or stay. But the salary will certainly be reduced: “There will come a point where he will have to choose between winning the World Championship or making money, although I don’t think Honda will continue to offer him the same contract“, concluded Jorge Lorenzo.
