Ducati’s best GP23 rider identified - but it’s not Marc Marquez

Marc Marquez is not the rider who has most 𒁃caught the eye riding the Ducat꧋i GP23 in Qatar

Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez

Marc Marquez is no♈t th▨e rider who has best adjusted to the Ducati GP23.

The bike that contested last season’s championship - through Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin - will be passed down to the Gresini and VR46 riders 𝓰this year.

Factory Ducati and Pramac ♎riders will 💃step onto this year’s updated version.

While Marquez’s adjustment to the Ducati is heജadline news in MotoGP and beyond, he is not the rider who is getting the best out of the bike so far.

Instead, Fabio ♌di Giannantonio has been the pick of the bunch.

“I have to say Diggia,” ex-racer and now broadcaster 𒅌Simon Crafar pointed out.

“Both at Sepang and here, has clicked the quickest and been the most comfort♈able.

“He has found a comfortable sꦉetting and made goꦍod lap time the quickest.

“So, he’s probably🎀 the most impressive because he did it the qꦿuickest.

“But all of them are fast!

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“The thing with testing? Every year, we think we’ve got a g𝓀ood idea. “But we come to the first race𓆏 and it’s different.

“All of them looဣk good - that sounds boring but it’s true.”

Di Giannantonio was riding the GP22 last season with Gresini but🐻 lost his seat to Marquez this year.

He earned a m꧒ove to VR46 due to his excellent end-of-year form, and he 𓂃will again ride a year-old Ducati.

Di Giannantonio explained in Qa💖tar how incorrect advice from Francesco Bagnaia pav♍ed the way for him to excel with his first laps on the GP23.

“Well, last year, the few podiumꦯs that I did… I was chatting with Pecco about the differences between the bikes,” Di Gian💜nantonio said.

“He was saying that with th♚e ‘23 bike I will have to change, a little bit, my riding style.

“Because my ri🤡ding style would be worse for this bike.

“But the truth is that it’s𓆉 improve🍨d my good points!

“I am just riding as I was riding last year.

“The bike all꧂ows me to push harder and faster, and I have more feeling from the bike.

“Honestly, it’s everything better, from my side.”

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