Ducati may have dominated MotoGP in recent seasons but riders sometimes struggle to name the best thing about the bike, labelling it strong in all areas rather than having a specific ✱‘knock ou▨t’ advantage.

Some even say the rival bikes are actually better in each individual༒ area of performance.

However, Ducati’s all-round ability means that if front or rear grip, for example, is lacking at a particular circuit or point i♛n a race, other areas compensate to keep it at a high level.

The opposite scenario is when a bike relies𒊎 too heavily on one area of performance to make its lap time. That can mean a bike works brilliantly in some tracks or conditions, but loses too much in others. Hero or zero.

An obvious example would be a bike that boasts class-leading top speed but cannot use it on tight-and-twisty tracks. Or how Honda became too reliant on 🦂braking and corner entry to fuel Marc Marquez’s title successꦏ.

In the case of the 2025 MotℱoGP grid, riders from Aprilia and Yamaha have openly praised the front-end of their machines. But as the season-opening Thai event showed, if the front end starts to falter, they can plummet down the ಞorder.

An extreme example came from Trackhouse Aprilia team-mates168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Ai Ogura and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez.

Rookie Ogura felt few issues with his RS-GP and rode to a brilliant fifth in the grand prix, as best non-Ducati,ꦗ while Fernandez suddenly lost front grip in dirty air and couldn’t even finish the race.

“I was in a really good position and fighting very well… But after 15 laps, when I was in seventh, I tried to catch Jac๊k and for some reason we had overheating in the front tyre,” Fernandez said.

“From th🍸is moment on, the front tyre didn’t work and I had to retire because I was 1.5 seconds slower.”

After excelling at the Sepang test, Yamaha’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo never felt co🅘mfortable with the tyres at Buriram and was unable to brake at his usual level.

Pramac Yamaha’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Miguel Oliveira, who finished 16th (Sprint) and 14th (GP) in the se🦹ason-opener, explained: “As we all know, we ride a lot with the front end of the bike.

“As soon as you don't get the maximum wit🐻h your ridiꦐng out of the front of the bike, you're in trouble somehow. Especially on these kinds of tracks where you really need to brake super hard.”

Speaking after the Sprint, the Portuguese added: “I s🐈ee that what is very positive [about] the bike can become something negative.

“The bike turns quite well, it's very stable on the front. But as soon as you are not able to get that from the tyre, from the front end, if you are a little bit out of the window with the setting, it's really difficult to optimise what the bikꦜe has good.

“[We] barely make any time on the acceleration, compared to other bikes. So we must do everything ♊on entry. So [the strong front end] is a plus. But at the sa💞me, if you are not there, it becomes really hard for you.”

It was a similar story for Oliv𒁏eira in the g൩rand prix.

“I got really in trouble with the front grip, co𝓡uldn't turn the bike, was going wide in every corner [just] when I had the most rear grip,” Oliveira said.  “And then the rear dropp🐻ed lap by lap.

“The tyre came back a little bit for me at the end꧟ and I could catch up 🍬and get into the points.”

“In the pre-season, everyone starts to dream”

Su🌸nday’s race ended with an all-Ducati top four 🅘and Ogura 7.5 seconds from race winner Marc Marquez.

The top Honda was 15 seconds adrift and leading KTM 20 seconds. Oliveira’s team-mate Jack Miller was the top Yamaha in eleventh, over 22 seconds from Marquez 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:after battling a loose fairing.

Asked about the 𝐆continued Ducati domination, Oliveira smiled: 

“In the pre-season, everyone starts to dream and 🙈make a lot of plans. But then, first race of the season, when re🐈ality comes in, everyone starts to be a little bit more cautious about what they say!

“But it's not the case for me. I knew clearly from th﷽e beginning that at this m🔴oment they are the leaders. And our job is just to focus on reducing that gap.

“We do have [private] testing days. We now have four bikes. We have shared data between all of us. We have the same spec of bikes. So I think we have every tool that we need t🌌o reduce that gap and that should be our only focus at the moment.”

Ro🏅und two of the season takes place at Termas de Rio Hond💧o, in Argentina, on March 14-16.