Enea Bastianini is enjoying the last days of vacation before the new MotoGP season. 2023 will be a highlight year for his racing career.
2023 should be the year of Aeneas Bastianiniat least on paper. Because the driver from Romagna, who ended 2022 with 4 victories and wears 23 on his livery, has an unmissable opportunity in his hands. Join the team Ducati factory, fulfilling a lifelong dream, and will ride the most competitive bike in the MotoGP class right now. During the winter break he didn’t allow himself many distractions, Christmas with his family and New Year’s Eve in the snow in Cortina d’Ampezzo, in the Dolomites.
A little over 200 km away, the presentation of the Ducati team will take place in Madonna di Campiglio from 22 to 25 January. It will be necessary to start to get serious, he will fly to Malaysia for the preseason test, after an initial approach with the Desmosedici GP23 in Valencia in November. A few days ago you celebrated her 25th birthday, among the most welcome gifts of this Christmas period she received “a pair of headphones to listen to music, a necklace with the number 23 and a razor for the beard… they told me it’s too long“.
Bastianini and the rivalry with Bagnaia
He has been living with his girlfriend for some time Alice Ricci, an experience that helped him mature on the track and in life. The MotoGP ’22 season gave him great satisfaction which he now aims to repeat and improve. The target “was to be fast right away and make as few mistakes as possible”, Enea Bastianini told ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’. There have actually been some mistakes, especially in the central part of the championship. When it came to deciding his future, he swung between the Pramac team and the Ducati factory.
A situation of strong pressure that has only partially affected him, stress is a natural factor for a rider. The mistakes inside the box and some individual flaws slowed down the climb to the top. But the team quickly recovered and its progress in qualifying was certainly a trump card. A step that will prove to be very useful in 2023, when he will have one available Ducati GP23therefore a potentially more competitive bike.
His box mate and world champion will be just as competitive I’m sorry Bagnaia. Between the two there does not seem to be that rivalry on which the media push so much. “For now we laugh about it. There will be rivalry, but we are two very calm people, I don’t see any problems between us“, concluded Enea Bastianini. “I’ll have to improve the first phase of the race, but I’m not worried. It is a purely mental discourse, I will work on myself“.
