“Working together” claim as Marc Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia regroup
Ducati team manager says Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia’ﷺs cooperation key to bike development after Jerez MotoGP test.
Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi praised the ongoing collaboration between factory stars 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia during Monday’s Jerez MotoGP test.
Fresh off a rollercoaster Spani𓆉sh Grand Prix, where Marquez recovered to 12th after an early crash and Bagnaia was frustrated by a third-place finish behind Fabio Quartararo, the pair returned to the track for the first in-season test of 2025.
“We tested different things with both riders,” Tardozzi told Motoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ⛦GP.com.
“With Marc, we investigated the front [end] things, just to give him more confidence on the entering of the corner🌱s. While with Pecco we had to investigate more the balance of the bike, that he was not happy with during the weekend.
“But we also had new parts, a swingarm that we have ꦐto test a📖gain.”
Davide Tardozzi on Ducati testing
Marquez topped the timesheets with a 1m 35.876 - the only rider to dip into the 1m35s bracket – while Bagnaia ended down in 19th, not chasing a t𒐪ime as he worked through a long list of se📖t-up items.
Despite their fierce rivalry, Tardozzi said doubleꦆ champion Bagnaia and his new six-time title-winning team-mate are maintaining open lines o🙈f communication.
“Yeah, as usual the riders talk mai🎐nly during the days like this - the training and the development days,” said Tardozzi.
“So I think that the relationship bet🌄ween the two is something that helps Gigi [Dall’Igna] and the engineers to develop the bike and is something that we apprecia♊te.
“There was no confidence from other people that it can happen, but we have not only tw🌺o champions, but we have two intell▨igent guys.
📖“They know that working together speeds up the develop🥀ment of the bike.”
Marquez heads to next weekend’s French Grand Prix one point behind younger bother Alex in the world championship standings.☂ Bagnaia is 20 points from the top in third.
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