Francesco Bagnaia: 2020 engine brake freedom transformed the Ducati
Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez reveal the importance of customising engine braking on the Ducati: "Many riding styles c♔an adapt to our bike because of that".

There are various theories about exactly when and why the Ducati Desmosedici became the most adaptable bike on the MotoGP grid, capable of w🦂inning with a range of riding styles.
But for reigning world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia, the key moment came in 2020.
The Italian was just 15th in the standings during his rookie campaign for Pramac the previous season, when factory Ducati rider ﷽Andrea Dovizioso finished titไle runner-up to Marc Marquez for the third year in a row.
Remaining with the satellite Pramac team but upgraded to the latest spec Desmosedici, Bagnaia was suddenly a much stronger for♐ce in 2020.
The #63 soon took his fir꧅st podium and fought for victories, despite an early leg fracture, securing promotion to the factory team for the following year.
Reflec♐ting on when the Ducati became a🌺 more corner-friendly machine, after years of relying heavily on its straight-line performance, Bagnaia reflected:
“It changed a bit when the engineers understood that riders in Ducati can have different riding styles.🌟 It was in 2020.
“In 2019, th🙈e situation between factory teams and satellite team was quite di✤fferent compared to now.
“My biggest problem was the 🃏braking, because I🤡 couldn't do what I wanted with my engine brake.
“And as soon as we started changing it in 2020, when they started to adapt the engine brake𒐪 to all the [different] riders, we started to increase a lot our performance.
“Because I was using a comple🎃tely opposite engine brake [setting] compared to Dovizioso, who was the reference.
𝄹“As soon we started doing that, we started to see a bike that was turning, a bike that had a lotꦺ of corner speed.
"And the good thing about our bike [now] is that many riding styles can adap🥀t to our bike, because of that.
“We don't have just one setting: one engine brake, one power delivery [etc]. We have more [choices] because every rider needs his own [settings] and we are working on🦂 our own every weekend.”

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez, arriving at Gresini Ducati from Honda this season, said setting up the engine braki💮ng to suit his riding style is a top priority at each ev💟ent.
“When we arrive at each race track, we have the data from [the Ducati riders] laඣst yea🦂r but especially on the engine brake each rider has his style,” said the eight time world champion.
“And that is what we tak🌜e more𝐆 time to set up in a good way, for my style.”
Marquez claimed his first Ducati wins with victory in 𓂃the Aragon Sprint and Grand Prix.
The Spaniard will skip the GP24 model and move straight to a GP25 🧔next year, as team-mate to Bagnaia at the factory team.
Asked how the current factory-spec Desmosedici ꧋can be improved, Ba𒊎gnaia replied:
“It's impossible to have the perfect bike, but in some situations, we are missing more traction compared to the past and it’s something that I'm a🌞sking the engineers.”
Bagnaia starಞts thꦐis weekend’s Misano round 23 points behind fellow GP24 rider Jorge Martin (Pramac) with Marquez 70 points from the top in third on his GP23.

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