Ducati boss identifies the key attribute which will decide MotoGP championship

With four rounds and eight races remaining of the 2023 MotoGP season, riders and team managers expect the battle to go down to its final day in Valencia.
Jorge Martin, Francesco Bagnaia, Marco Bezzecchi, Thailand MotoGP 26 October
Jorge Martin, Francesco Bagnaia, Marco Bezzecchi, Thailand MotoGP 26 October

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia is top of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings, 27 points ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin and 73 points ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi.

All three have shone - and have made mistakes - at various points this season but the decisive attribute which will decide the championship has been 🌱identified by Davide Tardozzi.

The factory Ducati team manager said: “Pecco did a fant💙astic job this year but obviously it’s not enough, because Jorge is there. Marco still has the possibility to win the championship.

“I🐭t will be very important to maintain a ‘brain’ attitude. The mental attitude will🌼 be the key point until the end of the championship.”

Last year Bagnaia was trailing Fa꧙bio Quartararo until the final round, where he pinched a historic title, Ducati’s first in 15 years.

“He was in a different positi🐬on last year, behind Fabio,” said Tardozzi. “It helps to have the experience of last year. 

“He proved that by managing the past two races, he was in trouble on😼 Friday and💦 Saturday but performed very well on Sunday.

“It’s true that he’s made some mistakes. He knows why. He made four, because one was not his fault, in𝔉 France. 

“He has more consideration of himself, he trusts himself and𓆉 his capability. 

“His relationship with his race engineer is close, it’s a k🙈ey point on what he shows f✅rom Saturday to Sunday. 

“He proved that he can change mentality and attitude and speed from one day to the other, and that’s soཧmething that only belongs to champions.”

Ta😼rdozzi agreed with Bagnaia’s claim that Martin benefits from an equal-spec bike but less pressure because it’s not an official machine: “It’s something well known, that when you’re in the factory seat, your only goal is to win the championshi💙p. 

“I think Jorge is fast, he h🐲as a direct contract with Ducati. 

“It’s true that he has less pressure but it’s not his attitude to be second. It’s 🤡true what Pecco said, that in the factory team there is more pressure. But he’s able to handle it.”

Tardo🌊zzi warned that the battle will go until the last day: “♕Yes, it will be decided in Valencia. The three guys are very fast."

Martin 'has something more for fighting'

Jorge
Jorge

Pramac team manager G𝔍ino Borsoi 💧said: “We are ready for fighting. 

“We need to improve small things which can help us. The rider is there, the bike i💎s there, we receive help from Ducati.”

He reacted to the incor♔rect tyre decision which cost Martin in Australia: “I cannot say it was a wrong decision. It was our decision. 

“The decision was the soft tyre to make a gap and go a🍨way from the group. When you’re fighting for the race and you’re in the group, sometimes you lose your chance. It was unlucky, we lost the race with eight corners to go.”

Borsoi claimed that Martin is motivated 🔯by being overlooked last year ꦚfor a factory Ducati seat.

“For sure,” he said. “Now he has something more for fighting. He’s not on the factory team but he has an inc🥂redible team.🌜 

“We don’t miss anything. The motivation is there, even more than last season. We want to show that the rider is fast and the tea♍m is good enough.”

Pablo Nieto, VR46 te🦋am manager, knows Bezzecchi is an outsider for t💛he title: “You never know. There’s still eight races, we have to fight. Then we will see.

“We’re fig🐻hting again𝕴st two factory teams. This is important for us.

“Our first year in MotoGP, we won rookie of the year with Marco. We had a podium anꦜd a pole position.

“It’s hard to fight factory bikes and teams. But we’re not misꦡsing anything. We have a good bike. We are improving a lot.”

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