The balance of the Portimao tests is more than positive for Ducati, which presents itself at the first GP of the season as the bike to beat. Crystal clear performance and ability to be immediately incisive even with new weekend format which includes the sprint race on Saturdaysuccessfully simulated. Bagnaia he drove with extreme naturalness and finished in front of everyone, while Bastianini he has found the right rhythm and thinks he can aim for the podium in Portugal. Both opted for the 26/A hull, therefore the more slippery and less rounded one that generates the ground effect when leaning. Objectively Pecco “does another sport” to put it like Bezzecchi, despite having made a small mistake by pulling too much in the first 3 laps of the race simulation, slightly “burning” the soft tyre. The group of other Ducatisti is promising more than well with the two Mooney VR46s, Marini first of all, that despite some small technical problems they closed well as well as Martin e Zarco (which will both homologate the “pot-bellied” hull 26/B). Among the protagonists or announced we must insert Alex Marquez, reborn with Ducati after difficult years with Honda. He found himself despite the two crashes on the final day, which made him understand what the limit of this bike is. In home Aprilia there is the awareness of having worked very well. The two officers are going strong, even if Vinales he made the wrong choice of tires in the simulation of the long, focusing on the M. Aleix risks the compartment syndrome operation which in any case has a fast course, so the Spaniard could be ready in a fortnight for the first race of the year. The two Aprilia RNFs are just as fast Oliveira e Raul Fernandez, another surprise in Portimao. Aerodynamics chapter: compared to what Aprilia showed, the innovations brought by Yamaha seem to have something homemade, almost elementary enough to trigger the irony of the paddock thinking about the Electra Radio School on the last page of our dads’ magazine. It is not a case that we won’t see the rear wing tested by Quartararo in the first GP of the season. For the rest, the declarations of the French have a taste of “pretty” with an aftertaste of “so-so”. However we know that Yamaha can and must do better respecting its winning history. At Honda there is a lot to work on both in terms of engine and in terms of chassis: too much for the tastes of Marc Marquez who is currently watching his brother Alex from afar. The latter with the Gresini team Ducati is there in front in 7th place. If it’s a situation that the eight-time world champion will have to get used to, we’ll understand in a fortnight… For now Marc reveals that his brother is “smiling” in the shared motorhome. Playing with your imagination, you would need a spy radio to know what the two are saying to each other, but this type of wiretapping is illegal, even if in the famous last page of the magazine, in addition to the engineering diploma, the directional microphone was proposed, as well as X-rays. Elements of the past that only make the … doors smile.
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MotoGP, Sepang test. Results and times from Malaysia: 1st Marini, 2nd Bagnaia
In Sepang, the final day of testing in strong Italian colors. After three days of work, the fastest is an Italian rider, Luca Marini of the Mooney VR46 team, followed by the world champion Pecco Bagnaia. Not only that: in the top 10 positions we have 9 Italian bikes between Ducati and Aprilia (the RS-GP23 made great progress in terms of top speed, equaling the Desmosedici GP23 with 337.5 kilometers per hour). Yamaha tried a new fairing. Upcoming tests in Portimao (March 11-12)
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Wanting to win MotoGP 2023, Marco Bezzecchi compares himself to Fabio Quartararo and Francesco Bagnaia
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Mooney VR46 Ducati racer Marco Bezzecchi (left) with Francesco Bagnaia (center) and Fabio Quartararo.
JUARA.NET – Mooney VR46 Ducati Racer, Marco Bezzecchispeaking of targets for MotoGP 2023.
Valentino Rossi’s student has a target to become world champion in the coming season.
Bezzecchi already has the important capital to achieve it.
One of these assets is its competitive spirit.
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“I was angry when I failed to win,” he said as reported by Champion.net from Motosan.
“I am such a person.”
“I put a lot of effort and passion into everything I do.”
“When I don’t get what I can get, I feel angry.”
For Fabio Quartararo’s sake, Yamaha will work to improve the YZR-M1
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Monster Energy Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo during the official test session at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit, Spain on Tuesday (8/11/2022)
BOLASPORT.COM – Project Manager YamahaTakuhiro Sumi, confirmed the bike used Fabio Quartararo he will no longer have so many complaints about the championship MotoGP 2023.
Takuhiro Sumi responds to a frequent complaint Fabio Quartararo throughout last year’s championship.
The most frequent complaints from Fabio Quartararo it’s the YZR-M1’s top speed issue.
The reason is that due to this deficiency, it has difficulty competing with the Ducati, which is currently considered the most complete bike on the track.
“I got involved in the project MotoGP since 2021, now I am group project manager Yamaha and this is a great opportunity for me,” Sumi told GPone as quoted by BolaSport.com from Motosan.es.
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“Of course, we know that we have to increase the maximum speed of the bike.
“We may not get the most out of the current engine for various reasons.”
The shortcomings of the YZR-M1 bike have worried Quartararo since the beginning of the season.