168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez’s adaption to the Ducati “hasn༺’t been as easy” as he might have wished for - but his testing times might be hiding his true performance.

Simon Crafar, ex-race🌟r and now brജoadcaster inside the paddock, kept a watchful eye on Marquez’s first preseason as a Ducati rider and saw the difficulties of his switch from Honda.

His final lap times were not eye-catching in Sepang or Qatar but, ahead of this weekend’s season-opening Qatar MotoGP, there remains mystery about🍨 Marquez’s competitiveness.

“I really think it might not h💃ave been easy for him,” Crafar said about Marquez adapting to a new bike.

“I know that I put the word🍨 “sandbagging” out there. The reason I said that was because Marc never shows his full hand before the race! He doesn’t!

“In 2019, when he dom꧃inated, he was eighth in testing. Not showing his full hand.

“But I know it hasn’t bee🧔n as easy, as I reckon he wouldꦕ’ve hoped.

“He’s over 30 years old. I’m not saying that’s too old. But at that age you s💦truggle to adapt to motorcycles as quickly.

“More so than in your 20s, e♉specially early-20s or mid-20s when you adapt ꦰquickly.

“You are more set in your ways. He’s hꦡad h൩ow many years on a Honda?

“It’s a totally different style and it has been hard for him to ♎adjust.

“But he’s so good at race craft. When he gets ou🐼t into the race, he fin🍒ds a way to make it work.

“He’ll be there! He’s not a b🌊ig fan of the circuit, whereas Aleix Espargaro is.

“Aleix wi🤡ll have a♒ good one here, because he loves it, and the bike is strong here.

“Marc 🐟is the o🐭pposite. If he finishes top five or six he’ll be satisfied and on target.”

There are some considerations that Marquez might attack the first part of t🌊he season, knowing his Ducati rivals on the GP24 should get stronger as they learn about their new bike’s developments.

Gresini’s duo of the Mar🍸quez brothers, and the VR46 pair, will ride 𒁏GP23s this year.

Marquez w♋ill know that his first chance for victory will come at his favourite circuits, Crafar insists.

“When there are race tracks which suit him? And he knows the bike bett🐻er? He will be big trouble…”

Six-time MotoGP champion Marquez moved to Ducati to reinvigorate his hopes of a seventh title but, first, he must 😼learn how to ride the bike that was used by last year’s title contenders.

Craf♎ar explaine✤d: “The Ducati has more rear grip, and accelerates really well.

“So you have to use that to make the lap time.

“The Honda didn’t have that, and still doesn’t. So he had to make th🃏e lap time with the front, pushing so hard on entry.

“We’ve seen him fall s💯o much because he pushes the front so hard.

“He said that when he rides 🔴naturally, and tries to go faster, he goes to that Honda style - he pushes the front too much, the rear suffers, meaning he doesn’t get everything out of it.

“Don’t do that! Use what the strengths are of ♛the motorcycle.

“Don’t click back into your old way, when y💦ou push.

“That’s one thing that he’s fighting with.

“Also, you haven’t spent time on this motorcycle on diffe🥃rentꦫ tracks.

“So you don’t really know the base setting yet.

“When he finds that? At a track he likes? He’ll𒆙 be there fighting for the win, I’m sure.”