The Ducati manager reveals how the next bike we will see on the track in the 2023 MotoGP World Championship will develop.
Ducati brought the curtain down on the 2022 MotoGP season in the guise of the great dominatrix. A historian Triple Crown which now needs reconfirmation, after all there could be no other goals for a team that has won everything. And repeating itself will certainly not be easy against fierce rivals eager for revenge such as Honda and Yamaha, certainly not happy to be overwhelmed by a European brand.
But in Borgo Panigale they were impeccable, with a I’m sorry Bagnaia who has achieved a historic comeback in the standings that will make school in the annals of history (from -91 to +17 points in the standings). But behind the Piedmontese champion there is a whole team effort skilfully orchestrated by the team manager Davide Tardozzi, who is already thinking about next season in the premier class. In the Valencia test on 8 November some highlights of 2023 have already emerged and it’s not just about technical solutions…
The Ducati GP23 grows in winter
In fact, Ducati is reshuffling the rider line-up a bit for next year, with the arrival of Alex Marquez in Gresini Racing, in place of Enea Bastianini promoted to the official team alongside I’m sorry Bagnaia. “Alex wants to prove that what he did with Honda wasn’t his fault“, Tardozzi told Crash.net about the younger of the Marquez brothers. Great expectations focus on the VR46 duo, Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi, and on Fabio Di Giannantonio, but attention is focused especially on the ‘Beast‘: “Enea will want to prove that he can also be a MotoGP champion“.
Eyes also focused on the Madrid player Jorge Martin, second best poleman of the 2022 season, from whom a step up in race pace is expected. “Jorge wants to show us that we made a mistake by not bringing him to the factory team“, continued the manager of Borgo Panigale. Without forgetting that the new MotoGP world champion is among its ranks: “Pecco will learn a lot from the mistakes he made in 2022. But now we are already focused on improving the bike and, above all, on defending the MotoGP title“.
The winter break will be used to recover your energy and above all improve your fitness Ducati in view of the next evolution, which we will see in an almost definitive edition at the beginning of February in Malaysia. “Our winter testing plan should focus on the electronics, the chassis… Aerodynamics can also be improved, but our weak point is the corners, because other bikes turn better than us“.
