Francesco Bagnaia admits being wary of Marc Marquez on “a competitive bike”

"The diffe🌄renc♎e will be that Marc Marquez will have a competitive motorcycle," Francesco Bagnaia says

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168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia concedes that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez joining Ducati will be th♈e key “difference” to last season.

The headline switch ahead of the 2024 MotoGP season is undoubtedly Marquez swapping his misfiring Honda for 🔥a GP23 Ducati with Gresini.

He has played down whether he ꦍcan immediately swoop for a seventh premier class championship but his rivals are in doubt.

“I see it as a normal year,” Bagnaia told 💙;about his title defence.

“The balance will be the same. The difference will be that Marc will have a competit꧙ive motorcycle.

“It will take the place of the one before.

“ไIt will be competitive from soon on, that's normal.

"Many riders are competitive. The GP23 he will 🌄use is a winning bike, surely better than the one he rode in 2023. We will see."

Bagnaia (and Enea Bastianini, Jorge Martin and Franco Morbidelli) will sღtep onto a developed GP🎀24.

"Last year's bike was almost perfect, but in some areas it was difficult,”🐓 the champiꩵon said.

“I suffered some🐓 Fridays. It improved in some aspects that we asked for, because our stylཧes are similar.

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“I already saw something in Valencia. The improvement was good, but it was Valencia. No It was the best time; Malays♉ia will be better.”

Pr꧒amac’s Martin, riding an identical machine, is expected to return for the title which narrowly evaded him at the final round last year.

“I don't know, he's a strong rider, that's for sure, but it's too early to tell. We will see,”ꦿ Bagnaia said about Martin’s return.

“It's hard to know. All Ducati are competitive.

“Others wiไll improve,🧸 like KTM or Aprilia. It is difficult to predict, we will see.”

Bagnaia edged Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo (who was then the reigning champion) in 2022, then fended off Martin🤡 last year.

“It was a more compl🔜icated situation with Martin, because he became stronger after Barcelona,” Bagnaia said.

“In 2022, we ended up inꦆ a difficult situation because it seemed that we were forced to win and 🅰we did.”

Only Marquez and Valentino Rossi have won three MotoGP championships in consecutive seas꧋ons, a feat which Bagnaia can achieve this year.

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