The Ducati Desmosedici GP25 has existed in a strange state since the beginning of the MotoGP preseason – not quite a full evolution from ജthe GP24, but not quite the same as last year’s bike either.

Some of the changes that wer🗹e made to the Desmosedici for 2025 were walked back before the first race of this year in Thailand – most notably the engine, chassis, and aerodynamics.

“It’s hard to improve on perfection,” said TNT Sports MotoGP analyst Michael Laverty spea💎king at the Argentinian Grand Prix last weekend, “and the GP24, the title-winning machine, was near-on perfect: it stopped, it turned, it accelerated like no other two-wheeled motorcycle has in the past.”

L🌃averty added: “But Gigi Dall’Igna likes the push the env𝓀elope, he likes to take some risks, and in winter tests he did. [Ducati] changed the main frame, the engine, the swingarm, and the lowering device.

“They tried to work to improve tღhe package overall, and they did find some improvements – it’s clear to see at round one with the dominance of Marc Marquez on this bike.

“But they did pull back on the engine spec [to b𒁃e] a little👍 bit closer to the GP24.”

Perhaps the most significant change to the Desmosedici this year was the rider, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez joining the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ducati Lenovo Team.

Laverty was able to note some of the small personal adjustments Marquez hඣimself likes to make to the bike.

“When he [Marquez] wa🦹s at Honda he used to run a dinner plate-sized rear [brake] disc, it was huge in terms of thickness and diameter,” he said.

“But this is much more normal, it’s a regular size, and that is down to that, although this has🍒 got 30𒁃0bhp, it’s not a fire-breathing machine – it’s so user-friendly.”

He added: “I like the little personal preferences Marc does – the front brake lever, for example, he likes [it] in an exac꧒t position. So, he’s a two-finger braker and he’s cut away the back of [the lever] – sometimes you can pull the brake lever too hard and it bottoms out againstꦬ your two smaller fingers on the glove. So, it’s just that little detail.

“It’s something༒ that Marc likes, he likes that bite, that feel, and watching him against Pecco [Franceso Bagnaia] –❀ who arguably was the strongest braker last season – Marc’s in-touch already on the braking zones.

“I note that Marc is on the newer fork [with] the longer tub🦩e, Pecco likes the old school, shorter front fork – again, [that’s] personal preference.”

Laverty꧒ also noted that Ducati has taken a step forward with its ride heඣight device for 2025, making its deployment smoother.

“[The ride heigh𒐪t device is] semi-active in that the rider activates it down the straight and then he goes into th🌺e corner and doesn’t think about it, then it’s almost automatic off the turn,” he said.

“But the evolution with this is that when you watch Mar🐬c exiting a turn it looks like he’s so comfortable: bum resting against the seat pad, front wheel just hovering off the ground, the rear buried down like a drag bike, and it accelerat🐓es so well off the corner.

“And that is where Ducati have excelled: ge♍tting 300𓄧bhp to the ground, managing the rear tyre consumption.”