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 i🐠s the manufacturer’s stalwart test rider who hasꦅ been crucial to the Desmosedici project.

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

This weekend at the season-finale Grand Prix of Barcelona, Pirro comes f🌼ull circle. He is racing for Rossi’s VR46 team, as a replacement for the injured Fabio di Giannantonio.

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

“I started my career with Valentino.

“T🌌he first time I tested the Ducati, [it was what Valentino had used].

“My job is to help D💦ucati. This is the last possibility to use the 2023 bike, and to check if there are good points or not.

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

Pirro will ride VR46’s GP23 this weekend. It is the first time in two-and-a-half years t🌄hat he has tackled a year-old version of the Ducati.

On Tuesday at the pos✨tseason test, he will transfer knowledge of the year-old bike into the latest version as preparations ramp up to unleash the GP25.

Marquez hopes the G💫P25 will power him to a ninth career title which will equal his rival Rossi’s record.

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

“Yes, it is a race, but there is an opportunity to 𓆉test the difference.

“We don’t havಌe tyres to test 🥀and we have managed the situation.

“In the races, it has been extra♕ordinary for Ducati so I am really happy.”

Pirro races Superbikes when he is not testing for Ducati but insi🐭sts the MotoGP machine is totally in contrast.

“It’s completel🦋y another story! The braking level, the aerodynamics level, are another stor🌠y,” he said.

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

“The weekend overall - especially World Superbikes - is not simple. But, the big difference is the i🔯ntensity with MotoGP especially in the braking and accelerationܫ area.

“You lose body power. Because I have another riding style to th🅷e 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 testඣing when the manufacturer was hug🍌ely struggling, after Rossi’s exit.

He said: “The problem is age!

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

“Improving the acceleration, the braking, the holeshot… it’s another s🎉tory compared to the pa✃st.

“Now, it’s good to see the young riders and their riding style, how their body is compl🌠etely off the bike.

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

“This is normal life for athletes.”