While MotoGP manufacturers debuted ‘2025’ machines during last November’s Barcelona test, they were still very much in protot💜ype form.

But the upcoming Seꦉpang tests𒅌, just a month before the Buriram season opener, are where the ‘real’ 2025 machines will be seen - at least in the case of defending champion Ducati.

That’s according to Alessio ‘Uccio’ Salucci, whose VR46 team receives official Ducati status this year and will benefit from a factory-spec Desmosedici GP25 for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio di Giannantonio.

Diggi🔯a missed the Barcelona test due to shoulder surgery and was replaced by Ducati test rider Michele Pirro. But as U✃ccio made clear, the ‘GP25’ seen on track last year was a long way from the final version.

“Sincerely, about the bike of 2025, we don’t know [the differences yet],” Sa💫lucci said.

“Diggia was injured so we tried the bike in Barcelona with Pirro. But we didn’t try🐓 the real 2025 bike. We tried some parts from 2024, some parts from 2025.

“The real bike will arrive in Sepang on Fe💜bruary 5th.

“So for us, it’s difficult to unders😼tand now the difference b💞etween the ‘24 and ’25 – also because Mr Gigi Dall’Igna don’t say nothing about the 2025 bike!

“When we arrive in Sepang, me and Pablo [Nieto, team manager] will have a meeting with him and it will be the first time that we und𒊎erstand the differences.”

Salucci, whose team struggled on GP23s last year after winning races i✱n 2022, added:

🔥“For sure [the 25] will be better, but I think more-or-less the bike wi꧟ll not change a lot like the 24.

“But the problem about the 23 bike was not that 🃏[Ducati]💯 changed a lot the ’24 bike, it was that the tyres changed a lot.

♔“Michelin arrived with a new tyre construction last year, and this rear tyre had more support, more grip.

“And ou𒀰r [23] bike didn’t turn, because the rear part of the bike pushed [the ♕front] a lot.

“So I don’t know the difference from 24 to 25 yet, b✤ut I think they will𝕴 be very similar.

“Also, because in ‘27 the rules change in MotoGP and now all the factories don𝓡’t push and [don't want to] invest a lot, a lot, a lot. Because alrꦕeady they are starting to think about ‘27.”

Engine design for the current 1000cc machines will be frozen from the Thai season opener until the end of 2026, to allow manufacturers to divert resources towardsꦿ the next generation 85ꦛ0cc bikes.

A GP24 was fastest at the Barcelona test in the hands of Gresini’s Alex Ma🐟rquez with factory Ducati Lenovo riders Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez third and fourth on the GP25.

VR46 team manager Pablo Nieto echoed Salucci’s comments, adding that, with di Giannantonio🍸’s team-mate Franco Morbidelli on a GP24 this year, 'we can almost say' we have two factory bikes.

“We start from zero [with🦄 di Giannantonio and the GP25] because as Uccio said in Barcelona we could not test with him," Nieto said.

"And it’s also true also that the bike we tested with Pirro was💙n’t the [real 25] bike that we will test next week in Malaysia.

“From the ‘24 to ‘25 bike, we don’t know yet, but it looks like the gap won’t be so big. This is import꧒ant for us because we can almost s🧸ay we have two factory bikes.”

The VR46 riders will📖 be training on Superbikes at Mandalika before heading to the official Sepang test, which takes place from February 5-7.

A shakedown test for r﷽ookies, test riders and concession manufacturers starts on January 31st.