Enea Bastianini on MotoGP rivals: “If relationship is good, then fine. If it's hatred, I'll accept it”

Bastianini is a fascinating part of the 2023 MotoGP championship picture - he must adapt to the responsibility of a factory Ducati꧑ seat, bu🐭t has already shown a willingness and a capability to scrap wheel-to-wheel.
He engaged in thrilling tussles with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia, his future teammate, last season while still riding a Gresini Racing bike - this year, their relationship from inside th🦂e same ܫgarage will come under the microscope.
Bastianini compared the rivalry between today’s riders to the previous gen🍬eration to : “MotoGP has changed a lot since I arrived at the world championship.&ꩲnbsp;
“Before there was a lot of hatred between the riders, today it's 🅺different. Whether that's good or bad I don't know.
“For me it is important to have fun and have goodไ duels on the track. If the re🍰lationship is good, then fine. If it's hatred, I'll accept it. But right now I wouldn't speak ill of anyone."
Bagnaia, towards the end of l♚ast season, remarkably found that Bastianini was emerging as the biggest threat to his maiden championship♍.
The paddock was full of talk a🌸bout team orders but the Ducati riders fought ferociously, and it now becomes a vital talking point of the upcoming season - how will the Italian team react if their two factory riders are at the front?

Bastianini said about Bagnaia: “There was a lot of talk about it wit😼h my move to the factory team. Because two Italians o🌸n Italian motorcycles make the news.
“But between us, I've always said, there is great respect. And also competitiveness, of course. Ultimately everyone races for themselves, but we we won't h🌟ave ♌major problems of coexistence.
"I think about the present. We have to work together to develop the bes𝕴t bike possible. Then of course there will be competition.
“My goal, but it also applies to 🐈him, i꧙s to try to be the fastest of all. I don't think that in the race one of us will give way to the other.”
It will be Ducati’s responsibility to keep their⛄ battles honest.
"It's fundamental,” Bastianini said about peace within the team. “When there is tranquilli🅘ty in the box, it is much easier to make the 🅰most of it.
“If some🅺thing is wrong, you focus on that and distract yourself from the goal. Getting out of it is not so simple. Harmony is key."

Bastianini is eyeing the 𝓡championship for himself: “We have the potential to aim for the title, I absolutely believe in it. It won't be easy, because th🎀e rivals are many and fierce, starting with my teammate Bagnaia.
“But in MotoGP we are at such a level that predictions are a risk. The details matter a lot, more than you♛ think, and whoever is betౠter at fixing them will win the title in the end.”
Last year they profited from the best machinery on the grid, aꦗnd the latest spec Desmosedici did not encounter significant issues at the preseason Sepang test.
“Th🅘is year's Desmosed💯ici has great potential, in part still to be discovered,” Bastianini said.
“It's a bit to sort out, to g༺et to know better, but we stꦇarted off on the right foot.
“The Desmosedici will certainly be the bike to beat, but you need the right horse to make it go fast. And from this point of view, Ducati has been very good, surrounding itself wiꦇth very 🧸strong riders.”

James wa🐠s a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Amer🎃ican sports, to football, to F1.