Tardozzi: Ducati MotoGP “dream team” tough to beat next year

"We will leave s❀ome top guys to other braꦅnds, but I honestly think we have a dream team"

Dall’Igna, Bagnaia, Marc Marquez, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP Test
Dall’Igna, Bagnaia, Marc Marquez, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP Test

While acknowledging the loss of new MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin, plus Enea Bastianini and Marco Bezzecchi to rival brands, Davide Tardozzi is sure that Ducati’s Desmosedici and ‘dream team’ 💞rider line-up will be tough to beat next year.

Replacing Bastianini alongside double MotoGP champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia will be six time premier-class winner 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez.

The Spaniard has heard the🦩 ‘dream team’ tag before, when triple MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo joined him at Repsol Honda in 2019.

That ‘dream team’ didn’t work out well for Lorenzo, to put it ♛mildly, and perhaps explains why Marquez seems to be deferring to Bagnaia now he is the rider joining another champion’s team.

“Now I am in a situation I have never experienced before, which is to arrive in a pit box and, although there is no number one and number two, logically there is a status and the one who calls th𓃲e shots is Pecco,” Marquez said recently.

“Why? Because Pecco is the one who has given two world titles to Ducati, 𓃲the one who won eleven races last year and logical🍸ly, he has to be the one who calls the shots this pre-season and in the first few races.”

The big difference between the Lorenzo-to-Honda situation is that Marquez already has a෴ season under his belt on a Ducati, taking three wins with the ye💦ar-old satellite bike at Gresini this year.

“We will leave some top guys to other brands, but in the end, I honestly 🌺think 🌱we have a dream team,” Tardozzi told MotoGP.com. "Pecco and Marc are incredible riders. 

"I think we will manage a good collaboration between the two riders and I think we will be the t🥂eam to beat next year.

“I kn🐲ow other brands are growing on the technical side and with their rider line-ups. But in the end, I think the Ducati bike and the Ducati factory team will be very tough [to beat] next year.”

Ducati lost only one Sunday grand prix out of th♏e 20 rounds this year, ꦦwith the factory spec GP24 accounting for 16 of its 19 wins.

“We have to take time during t🎀he winter to make the right steps [with the new GP25] because the 2024 is a really competitive bike and it will be not so easy to make a step forward,” Tardozzi said.

“On the other hand, we know that our competitors will be very strong on the rider side next year. The two Aprilia guys, Bezzecchi and Jorge, will be very tough, Vinales and Bastiani♎ni will improve🧸 the KTM riders.

“So on one side we are happy, but we have the ‘antenna reꦚally straight’ [staying alert]!”

GP24s will be raced next season by the new Gresini line-up of rookie Fermin Aldeguer and Alex Marquez, plu💜s Franco Morbidelli at VR46.

Morbidelli’s team-mate Fabio di 🐻Giannantonio will receive thꩲe other factory GP25.

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