Marc Marquez's first feedback after testing the factory Ducati
"I tried the full 2025 package:🌟 Frame, e🅠ngine and different things"
Just as a year ago on his Gresini debut, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez finished his first MotoGP test as an official Ducati Lenovo rider wi🥃th fourth place on the timesheets.
While last year he was making his Desmosedici debut on a satellite bike at Valencia, this year he was focusing on a prototype version of next year’s꧋ factory GP25 at Bar🔥celona.
Rid💝ing in a special bright red livery, the eight-time world champion spent much of the day at the lower end of the top t൲en.
A late surge then put him into fourth, 0.6📖51s from test leader, younger brother and former team-mate Alex Marquez.
But Marquez, a factory Honda rideꦆr from 2013-2023, was just 0.056s behind new team-mate and outgoing double world champion Francesco Bagnaia.
Marquez ༒revealed he had effectivꦗely skipped the GP24 and gone straight from the year-old GP23 to next season's 2025 machine.
“I tried the GP25 most of the day, 90% of the time I was riﷺding with the 25,” Marquez confirmed. “So I was working a lot for the𓃲 engineers.
“Because when you jump to the official team, it means that you have a very strict plan with all the things you need to try and the rider is in the hands of the engineers. You are there workiꦛn🧔g for the engineers.
“It’s true that the bike has some positive thing🦄s that work a bit better. But in the end it's a bik💫e and you need to ride in a good way. If you want to be fast, you need to push.
“But the feeling was supe♋r good, especially with the team. That is the most important on the first impression, and we work in a good way."
Pressed on what feels better, Marquez replied:
“The engine is a bit better on the straight, so that also is important comparing with last year’s bike. And then it looks like the character of going 𝓀in on the corner is a bit different. Still there I need to understand where is the limit.”
“The th🌟i💃ng is that I tried the full package 25: Frame, engine and different things,” he added. “So we don't know which [individual parts] feel different.
“The🦩n Pecco was working a little bit in a different way. But the most important is that both of us had very similar comments. Same problems, same advantages. So this makes life easier for the engineers.”
Ducati test r൩ider Michele Pirro suggested the GP25 would especially suit s🐈trong brakers, such as Marquez and Bagnaia.
For now, Marquez is reserving judgment.
"Still we need more time to understand because, with Pecco, we had similar comments. It's true that it's super good in some aspects, but a little bit more difficult🌱 in other aspects," he said.
"So now we need to evaluaﷺte, because you need to have a 'stable' bike on all 22 rounds. Not very fast in one kind of track."
But did it feel strange to ride in🐟 red after so many ye🥂ars battling against the factory Ducati team as a Repsol Honda and then Gresini rider?
"No, it was a pleasure," Marquez said. "Especially when you arrive in a team that performed in a better way t♑hese last years.
"You have the responsibility to be ಞfast because you're in the best team on the grid. So it was a pleasure to be inside that garage.
"But it’s true that seeing Tardoz💖zi [in my garage was strange], after all m𒉰y fights with Dovizioso!
"But we always had a very good and polite relationship. So thisও helps, also beꦯcause we already know each other."
ꦡMarquez has to wait until Sepang in February for his next outing on the GP25.
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