Ducati insist rival manufacturers have an advantage with engine freeze rules after they confirmed their big decision for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia.

The factory Ducati riders will use last year’s specifica♓tion of en🔯gine in 2025, after testing the new version and opting against it.

Marquez and Bagnaia will, therefore, go to battle with a key componen🐼t of the GP24 - the bike which handily dominated last year’s championship.

Crucially, they are committed to that decision for two years while so🌳me rivals are a꧋ble to change their minds.

MotoGP technical director Danny Aldridge explained: “ꦜThe reason for the freezing is because the new rules come into place. “From 2027 we change to the 850cc eꦿngine size so there is a lot more development that the manufacturers need to do.

“If they know their en🔴gine is frozen for the next two years, they can then put more reso🌜urces into the 2027 specification engine.”

A manufacturer’s place in the concessions rankings imꦛpacts whether they are able ♌to change their minds about their engines or not.

Aldridge ex꧑plained: “The freezing is decided on the manufacturers’ 🤡position in the concessions championship.

“If they are in A, B or C this year, and A, B or🐠 C next year, they freeze their engine this year and continue to use those engines next year.

“Ducati, for example, are criteria A. They will freeze the ꦡspecificatio🅠n that they use this year.”

Ducati technical director Davide Barana admitted the importa🐻nce of the e🌞ngine freeze.

“Without the freezing of the engine, we would’ve had two projects in⛦ parallel,” Barana said.

“This would doub🧜le the cost and it’s not good fo♌r the championship.”

Marquez said after testing’s b𓆏ig d൩ecision: “The engine was the main thing because when you homologate, it will be for two years.”

Bagnaia insisted: “It’s the correct choice.”

But not everyone was put on the spot to ma𝔍ke a crunch call like Ducati.

Yamaha’s Max Bartolini said: “For manufacturers that don’t have the concessions, the꧙y must decide ahead of the first raౠce which engine to use.

“Those who have concessions don’t have to choose. You cannot change any paﷺrts of the en♛gine.

“Clearly you need to manage your resources because⛎ they are not unlimited.”

Aldridge explained: “If we take Yamaha and Honda, their conc⛄e🌌ssion ranking is D at the moment.

“If, at the end of the 2025 season, they stay in D then they hav🌺e free development in 💃2026. So nothing changes for them.

“However, if they move up to A, B or🌳 C then they can bring a new engi⭕ne in for 2026 which will be frozen for the whole season.”

Ducati rivals 'advantage' with engine

Yamaha’s Bartolini said: “For ꦿsure, i🎐t’s an advantage.

“How much of an advantage? Difficult to say. It depends how you can use the concessio🎀🍌ns.”

Ducati’s Barana c﷽laimed: “They have an advantage bღecause they are free to modify their engines in terms of performance, also the engine to accommodate something in the chassis.”

Yamaha’s Bartolini said: It’s up t🅷o us to be well balanced. You don’t put 100% effort into the project, you look more long distance.”

How are the other manufacturers impacted?

Aldridge explained: “If Aprilia, KTM or Ducatꦫi move down to D, they would have a free engine specification for 2026.

“﷽If they stay in their posit♈ions they follow over their engines from this year.”

So th♈e main engine decision for the upcoming season was undoubtedly with Ducati, who chose not to use their latest specification and instead trust last year’s title-winning engine.

It is a call that Marquez and Bagnaia backed. Marquez notably impressed in preseason testing wit🅺h the ‘24 engine on his GP25.

The sea🤪son-opening Thailand MotoGP is t♕his weekend.