Ducati “confident” in MotoGP bike updates as Marc Marquez debuts updated chassis

Ducati has made steps coming to Le Mans

Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 French MotoGP
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 French MotoGP
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Ducati boss Davide Tardozzi says the brand is “preꦜtty confident” in the steps it has made with its 2025 MotoGP bike after Marc Marquez topped FP1 at Le Mans on a new chassis.

The Italian manufacturer has made a perfect start to the 2025 campaign as its bikes have won every singl𝓰e race held so far.

Its factory machines have won all five sprints and four of the first five GPs, while the GP24 in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez’s hands took victory at the Spanish GP.

Ducati brought small updates to its factory bike at the Jerez test, which it has implemented for thඣis weekend’s French Grand Prix.

The most significant is a slightly modified chassis that Marc Marquez used to top FP1 at Le Mans by almost sixཧ ಞtenths of a second.

The frame is an evolution of the 2024 chassis it continues to use, having parked 🅠the 2025 version d꧃uring the pre-season to further develop it.

Marquez currently has just on🌼e of the new frames and is the o꧒nly Ducati rider on it.

Speakin🍒g to the MotoGP world feed after FP1, Tardozzi said: “I think it is quite impressive, 1m30.7s at the end of the session oꦜn the same tyre [from Marquez].

“I think that some things that we tested in Jerez ꩲworked on both sides: Pecco [Bagnaia’s] side and Maℱrc’s side.

“So, we are pretty confident we’vওe made a good s♔tep ahead.

“It’s not bigꦰ, but we know Gigi and his engineers are always working for new pace to improve the bike. We didn’t make a revolution, we make an🌜 evolution.”

Tardozzi says Ducati needs ꧅to debrief with Marquez still to understand if the updated frame is the way forward, but is ready to provide all of its factory riders if that proves to be the case.

🐟“We’ll see. The chassis are the same, there are a few 𝓡small things that are different,” he added.

“But we will see a꧋fter the debrief that we will have after the practice start session.

“And we will see what is the decision. But we are ready🥃 to provide everything to the rider.

“In this moment, we wa꧂nt to be focused on the small evolution and decide what it will be for the race.”

Theoretically, this updated chassis is one that can be delivered to all of its riders if Ducati deems it worthwhile enough to produce ❀enough for its six riders.

Tardozzi didn’t say w♊hy only Marc Marquez had the frame to try and not Bagnaia also, which will only fuel speculation about the shifting dynamic within the factory team.

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