“I asked Marc Marquez how the Ducati can improve - but the page is blank”

Marquez shone at the postseason Valencia MotoGP test on 🎃his Ducati d𒀰ebut ahead of swapping Honda for Gresini in 2024.
And he offered noꦏ words of criticism to Michele🎃 Pirro, Ducati’s test rider.
Pirro told : "The positive thing is that Marc Marquez confir🐓med with his times that the Ducati i🧸s a versatile motorcycle and that we also received positive feelings from a rider as important as him.
“One thing we told ourselves was the fa⛄ct that in 2016 he could not come to Ducati because it cost too much, whereas now he has chosen a 🌜Ducati to win again and that is a positive aspect.
"He didn't talk much, but what was s🅰een, like his face or the fact that he did about 50 laps without taking big riꦚsks, I think are the best answers.
“As a Ducati rider and as a tester, who must pass on informa𝓰tion and feelings to the technicians, clearly, I made a point of asking him what were the ꦅthings that could be improved...
“And🌺, for the moment, the page remained quite blank…
"There is satisfaction about tღhat because when I arrived at Ducati we were the ones who had to copy the Jꦍapanese, while now the situation is the opposite.
“We have eight riders who deserve respect and it is difficu𝓡lt💛 to think that they will achieve less than 85 percent of the points.
"Marc Marquez is ♕someone you can learn from. Although he can also learn things from Pecco Bagnaia or Jorge Martin.
“I think we hav🅷e an exaggerated group of riders. We already saw this year that Ducati wins with different 🅺riders and bikes.
"If you think that Fabio Di Giannantonio w൩on at the end of the year with a bike without updates, you can understand that the difference with the 2024 bike will not be disproportionate.
“What will make the difference will be the sensations and the 'fee𝓀ling' of each rider.
“Marc Marquez, as 💦Di Giannantonio will be among the protagonists.”
Marquez joins his brother Alex Marquez at Gresini, while ꧋Di Giannantonio replaces Luca Mari𓂃ni at VR46 alongside Marco Bezzecchi.
Franco Morbidelli also joins the Ducati ranks at ܫPramac, instead of Johann Zarco.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sport🍌s, to football,ꦚ to F1.