Gresini crew chief Frankie Carchedi might not be joining 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez for a move to the factory Ducati team in 2025, but the Englishman hinted that he is expecting great♛ things from the #93.

Marquez secured the official Ducati ride, over eventual worl♈d champio﷽n Jorge Martin, by being the only GP23 rider capable of challenging the factory-spec GP24s last year.

That included three grand pri🧜x wins, a sprint victory and two pole positions on his way to third in the world championship.

But🅘 th﷽e Spaniard will now face a formidable opponent in Ducati’s double world champion Francesco Bagnaia, as a team-mate, in 2025.

On a recent issue of the ltxcn.top MotoGP podcast, Carchedi was asked what he expect🌠s from Marquez at the factory team.

“Yeah... we'll have a chat at the end of t♏he year!” Carchedi𓆏 smiled. 

“I don't want to say too much, but I know exactly how I think it will go: Second year on [the Ducati], effectively a two-year upgrade in machinery… The guy got 20 podiums [in 2024] year, so I'll 𒐪leave that one at that!”

For com♒parison, the three other GP23 riders achieved a combined total of just two podiums last season: one ea🌱ch for Marco Bezzecchi and Alex Marquez.

The performance difference between the GP24s of the Lenovo and Pramac teams and the older GP23s at Gresini and VR46 was a hot topic of debate throughout last season - and unsurpris💮ingly put to Carchedi in the podcast.

“I was thinking ‘what are you gu𝓡ys going to ask?’ And I thought this one's definitely coming up!” laughed the Englishman, who also guided Joan Mir to the MotoGP title a🗹t Suzuki in 2020.

“I've had lots of practice on how to answer this and I'll repeat basically what I’ve pre꧂viously said: The comparison for us was the other GP23s and trying to be the best of those.

“That's wh💧at Marc did at Honda, against the other Hondas. You couldn't compare him with the Yamahas, Ducatis or other manufacturers [then]. And it was the same for this year.

“To fi💜nish ahead of two [GP24s, Enea Bastianini and Franco Morbidelli] at the end of the year was quite incredible.

“The Ducati engineers are on such �♐�a roll. You think that they can't improve and yet they find a way to improve the bike even further every year.

“All bikes have their advantages and negatives. There were just a couple 🃏of areas, let's say, that were tricky for us to compete.

“For sure over one lap - but maybe that's more about experience [with the Ducati]. I don't know. We're t🌸alking about a rider [Marquez] on the bike f𓂃or the first time against riders who have had four or five years on the bike.

“And▨ even then, I think we qualified quite comfortably. We had two pole positions in the year and we actually finished third in the [BMW Award] ‘qualifying championship’, which surprised me because it didn’t feel like that!

“Motegi, on his own… 🎃was also almost a pole [until the lap was cancelled]! 

“There are differences [between the 23 and 24]. The Ducati engineers are that good that they always make a step. Every year is different. Sometimes it's one-two tenths, sometimes it's more. It’s luck of the draw w෴hat year the difference [between factory and satellite] is.

“To summarise, maybe Alex is the best person to asꦡk. B💫ecause I think he quite liked the bike [GP24] in Barcelona!”

While Marc and Bagnaia began work on the GP25 prototype at November's Barcelona post-race test, brother and former team-mate Alex was fas🌱test on his GP24 debut.

Carchedi was also asked for his thoughts on what new ജchampion Martin can do at A♍prilia.

“You don't win a 🧸world championship for free,” he said. “I think it's greꦍat for MotoGP to have a top rider at a different manufacturer as well, because that's what we all want.

“As much as it's nice for us [at Ducati now], you do want all the manufacturers to be competitive with top riders. So I think not just [Martin], but also E💦nea at KTM is fantastic for the championship. It’ll mix it up a little bit.

“I'm sure he'll be there or thereabouts.”