Marc Marquez: 2025 Ducati MotoGP engine “has very weak points”

Burꦚiram test day one pacesetter explains Ducati engin🦄e situation

Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez says the reason Ducati is leaning towards racing the GP24 MotoGP engine in 2025 is because the GꦐP25𝄹 version “has very weak points”.

On Wednesday at the Buriram test, Ducati team boss 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Davide Tardozzi confirmed that the marque was likely 🀅to homologate the 2024 engine for the coming season because the GP25-spec brought 🐓with it too many risks.

Engine d𒉰evelopment for non-concession manufacturers will be frozen for the next two years from the opening round of the 2025 campaign in Thailand.

With the GP24 winning 16 of 20 races last season, Marquez♍ says Ducati can’t “take the risk” to homologate a GP25 the riders are unsure about give its obvious weaknesses.

“I meไan one thing is the engine and the other thing is all the small pieces that we have, new pieces,” Marquez said after topping day one of the Buriram test.

“Today basically we concentrated most of the day to 2024 engine, because lookꩲs like if tomorrow doesn’t change a lot, it looks like it is the way [for the season].

“Why? Because Ducati is very realistic and they know, and they are very smart, that we c𝐆annot take the risk to homologate an engine that if we are not 100, 100% sure is better than 2024 because if we homologate the engine we homologate it for two years.

“So, we understand from the first day to today that the 2025 is a little b🅺it more up and down: very strong in some points, [but has] very weak points.

“So, they have the experience to use the 2024 i🏅n differe🐼nt race tracks.

“They won 16 races last yea🃏r, so that means that the bike was in a very good base.

“And it looks like now we a🦋re going into that base, but tomorrow we will reconfirm.

“But I feel super good on 2024 base. When I say 2💯024, it’s the 2024 bike. It’s the base of 2024, the engine, but they work a lot on very small items that we aꦍre introducing to that engine now.”

Pecco Bagnaia verdict on 2025 engine

Team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia says the 2025 engine isn’t necessarily uncompetitive, but Ducati has so far struggled to “find a balan♋ce on braking” to confidently r🔯ace it.

“Honestly, it’s a very difficult choice and in this moment we are both leaning, and the team also, in the same direction: to go with the 2024 engine,” Bagnaia, who was eighth🐟 on Wednesday in Thailand, said.

“Just because, not that the 2025 is not competitive, but we are still struggling to find a balance on b🌠raking and it would be like a ‘⛦limbo’ to start the season with an engine that we are not finding any solution to solve this problem.

“Apart from that, we are lucky that today Marc [Marquez] didn’t have any issues because from my side of the gar🦩age today nothing worked from the start of the day.

“We had many problems and luckily my team did a fantastic job to give to me a little possibility of riding, but today from the 💎start of the day nothing was working.”

In 2022🔜, Ducati’s factory team electe🌃d to run an older engine spec in its new bike after struggling in the pre-season with the full GP22 motor.

Quotes provided by Crash Indonesian Editor Derry Munikartono

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