A crucial cog in Ducati’s workings was too late to help 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi, but has a key role in helping 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez.

Michele Pirro 🔯is the manufacturer’s stalwart test rider who♋ has been crucial to the Desmosedici project.

He arrived in 2013, coinciding with Rossi’s exit. The first Ducati he tested was the 2012 bike whi𒈔ch wꦦas Rossi’s nemesis. Now Pirro is testing the Ducati in preparation for Marquez’s arrival in 2025.

This weekend at the season-finale Grand Prix of Barcelona, Pirro comes full circle🌺. He is racing for Rossi’s VR46 team, as a replacement for the injured Fabio di Gia💎nnantonio.

“There is pressure because I am riding for Valentino Rossi’s team, 🌸the best rider ever,” Pirro said.

“I started my career with Valentino.

“T🍨he firs❀t time I tested the Ducati, [it was what Valentino had used].

“My job is to help Ducati. This is the last possibility to use the 2023 bike, and to check if there are good points or 𓄧not.

“I think there are not! I will test it. Nex🅷t week with the new bike, I will try the difference.”

P🐽irro will ride VR46’s GP23 this weekend. It is the first time in two-and-a-half years that he has tackled a year-old version of the Ducati.

On Tuesday at the postseason test, he will transfer knowledge of the year-old bike into the lat👍est version as preparations ramp up to unleash the GP25.

Marquez hopes the GP25 will power him to a ninth career title which will equal h𒐪is rival Rossi’s 💙record.

🧸Pirro said: “There is opportunity to come back to the old bike because we don’t have the tyres.

“Yes, it is a race, but there is an opportun𒅌ity to test the differenc🍰e.

“We💧 don’t have tyr꧟es to test and we have managed the situation.

“In 🐷the races, it has been extraordinary for Du🍨cati so I am really happy.”

Pirro races Superbikes when he is not testing for Duꦕcati but insists the MotoGP machine is totally in contrast.

“It’s completely another story! The braking level, the aerody🍬namics level, are another story,” he said.

“This braking and aero systꦜem is more difficult to push at the limit.

“The weekend overall - especially World Superbikes - is not simple. But♌, the big difference is the intensity with MotoGP especially in the braking and acceleration area.

“You lose body power. Because I have another riding style to the young riders. It is🐻 difficult for an old man!”

Pirro, now 38, is watching a new generation of Ducati riders tackle the bike that he first started testing when 🦩the manufacturer was hugely struggling, after Ros꧂si’s exit.

He said: “The problem is age!

“The aero is totally different to 10 years ago, 🔯or five years ago.

“Improving the acc♌eleration, the braking, the holeshot… it’s another story compared to the past.

“Now, it’s good to see the young riders and their ridiꦜng style, how their body is completely off the bike.

“I♈ try to do this, but it’s not simple. When I go out, maybe my shoulder goes out!

“This is normal life for athletes.”