Tardozzi: Ducati MotoGP “dream team” tough to beat next year

"We will leave some top guys to 🔴other brands, but I honestly think we have a dream team"

Dall’Igna, Bagnaia, Marc Marquez, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP Test
Dall’Igna, Bagnaia, Marc Marquez, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP Test

While acknowledging the loss of new MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin, plus Enea Bastianini and Marco Bezzecchi to rival brands, Davide Tardozzi ܫis sure that Ducati’s Desmosedici and ‘dream team’ rider line-up will be tough to bea🍸t next year.

Replacing Bastianini alongside double MotoGP champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia will be six time premier-class winner 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez.

The Spanౠiard has heard the ‘dream team’ tag before, when triple MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo joined him at Repsol Honda in 2019.

That ‘dream team’ didn’t work out well for Lorenzo, to put it mildly, and perhaps explains why Marquez seems to be deferring꧋ to Bagnaia now he is the rider joining another champion’s team.

“Now I am in a situation I have never experienced before, which is to arrive in a pit box and, although there is no number one and number two, logically there is a sta♓tus and the one who calls the shots is Pecco,” Marquez said recently.

“Why? Because Pecco is the one who has given two w🎐orld titles to Ducati, the one who won eleven races last year and logically, he has to be the one who calls the shots this pre-season and in the first f𝐆ew races.”

The𝔉 big difference between the Lorenzo-toꦕ-Honda situation is that Marquez already has a season under his belt on a Ducati, taking three wins with the year-old satellite bike at Gresini this year.

“We will leave some top guys to other brands, but in the end, I honestly think we have a dream team,” Tar๊▨dozzi told MotoGP.com. "Pecco and Marc are incredible riders. 

"I think we🌃 will manage a good collaboration between the two riders and I think we will be the team to beat next year.

“I know other brands are growing on the technical side and with their rider line-upಌs. But in the end, I think the Ducati bike and the Ducati factory team will be very tough [to beat] next year.”

Ducati lost only one Sunday grand prix out of the 20 rounds this year, with th𒆙e factory spec GP24 acco𓄧unting for 16 of its 19 wins.

“We have to take time during the winter to make the rightღ steps [with the new GP25] because the 2024 is a really competitive bike and it will be not so easy to make a step forward,” Tardozzi said.

“On the other hand, we know that our c❀ompetitors will be very strong on the rider side next𝐆 year. The two Aprilia guys, Bezzecchi and Jorge, will be very tough, Vinales and Bastianini will improve the KTM riders.

“So on ꦦone side we💖 are happy, but we have the ‘antenna really straight’ [staying alert]!”

GP24s will be raced next ♛season by the new Gresini line-up of rookie Fermin Aldeguer and Alex Marquez, plus Franco Morbideﷺlli at VR46.

Morbidelli’s team-mate Fabio di Giannantonio will receive the ot𝓰her factory GP25.

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