Madrid, March 6. Italians Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi, whose Ducati team presented themselves this Monday in the Italian town of Tavullia, are thinking of the podium in the 2023 season, after a good start to the pre-season in which both starred.
After ten years in the categories of the motorcycle world championship, the 2023 race presents itself as the most ambitious for the Italian team, owned by the nine-time motorcycle world champion, Valentino Rossi and whose “team manager” is the Spaniard Pablo Nieto.
With 231 points scored in their first season in MotoGP, a podium, a pole position, the title of Rookie of the Year, numerous top 10 finishes allow them to aim high in 2023.
A technical group of the highest level, which bears the “Made in Italy” signature of Ducati, the world champion motorcycle in 2022, with Luca Marini, in his third year in MotoGP, says he is ready to achieve great goals with a Marco Bezzecchi, who does not hide and aspires to the best result since the first race, the Portuguese Grand Prix, which will take place on March 26 in Portimao.
Luca Marini said he was “very happy with the pre-season, the bike is really fast and competitive, I would say that we are close to perfection because in Malaysia the race pace was good, the simulation of fast laps was fantastic and we are satisfied.”
“We can fight for the ‘Top 5’ every weekend, we just have to try to make the most of our potential in the first Grands Prix and I think that with our specifications we are more advanced in the settings than maybe the factory team riders, who have to develop the new bikes,” Marini admitted.
“We have prepared one hundred percent for this championship although, with the sprint race on Saturday and then the race on Sunday, we don’t know what to expect because strategy and qualifying will be crucial: over such a short distance, but many riders will still be able to fight on soft tyres,” said Marini.
His teammate, Marco Bezzecchi recognized that the gustaba mucho “the motorcycle of the temporada pasada, ¡pero con la version totally negra hemos metido una marche más! Estoy contento con los entrenamientos, me siento bien con la nueva moto y enseguida he notado the difference”.
“The connection to the throttle is the clearest, compared to the previous bike, and then also the aerodynamic package, although it will be difficult to have two races in the same weekend, at least at the beginning, even just to understand how to manage the body,” Bezzecchi pointed out from the race to the sprint.
“I want to win my first race, that’s the goal. We started with a technical package already configured, competitive and fast and we are prepared, maybe more than the official riders, at the start, even if they will arrive more late, no doubt. , but now we have to make the most of it,” said the Italian without hesitation. EFE
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