The Pertamina VR46 team will have a split garage in terms of bike specification in MotoGP this season.

As part of its new official Ducati satellite team status,168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Fabio di Giannantonio has been upgraded to a factory spec GP25 while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Morbidelli ꦺwill stay on the GP24 he raced at Pramac last season.

But might familiarity with the GP24, and a season's worth of race data, prove an advantage for Morbidelli 𒅌this year?

“The GP24 is a great bike,” Morbidelli replied at VR46’s Jakarta team launch. “It was born great, was unbelievably ⛎fast from the first tests in Malaysiꦰa and won its first race.

“So I believe a l💙o♋t in the GP24 package. It’s a great machine, one of the greatest packages we’ve seen.”

Morbidelli’s debu♌t Ducati season was rocked by a winter head injury, robbing him of pre-season testing, before reaching ninth in the standings.

Meanwhile the other GP24 riders - of Jorge Martin, Francesco Bagnaia and E🐓nea Bastianini - were ranked first, second and fourth in the world championsh𝄹ip.

“The dominance the GP24 had last y✅ear was impressive,” Morbidelli contin🐬ued.

“There were four GP24s in the🧸 top four quite often, especially when I caught up in the second half of the season. So that bike can d✨o amazing things and be very quick on track.

“Let’s see i🍎f it’s an advantage or not [to stay on a GP24], I believe that everybody has their own advantages and disadvantages. Let’s see what we can do with our package, which is really good.”

Gresini’s Alex Marquez und💜erlined the potential of the GP24 by outpacing the prototype GP25s at last November’s Barcelona test.

W𒁃atching from the sidelines was di Giannantonio, who withdrew from the final rounds of last season to undergo shoulder surgery.

Only Marc Marquez was ab🐠le to enjoy regular podiums and race wins on the GP23 last year.

Most others, including Dig﷽gia and then team-mate Marco Bezzecchi, battled with a bike ♛designed for the previous generation of Michelin rear tyre.

The young Italian will now leap two-years forward a🎶s the only rider other than factory stars Francesco Bagnaia an🍸d Marc Marquez with a GP25.

“For me 🍸it’s a kind of big step coming from the GP23 because it’s two years forward in the development of the bike,” di Giannantonio said.

“It will be a new challenge for sure, it will be quite differ𒀰ent at the beginning because we have to focus a lot on development of the [GP25] and try to understand what works, what not.

“Anyway, I think that the [GP25] bike Ducati is bringing will be a weapon, coming from such a great bike a🌃s the GP24. It will be a new challenge for sure, we just have to be focussed and enjoy this kind of responsibility to develop this bike.”

No changes in tyre specification 𝕴are planned for this season, after the debut of a new front was postponed.

Most therefore expect the p💝erformance difference between the GP24 and GP25s to be comparable with the GP22 vs GP23s in 2023, wꩵhen all four riders on year-old bikes at VR46/Gresini claimed podiums (including four GP wins).

di Giannantonio will d𝄹ebut on the GP25, an🥂d first MotoGP laps since last year's Thai Grand Prix, during the official Sepang test from February 5-7.