Jorge Martin and Pramac miss deadline: “Should’ve decided fairing but we didn’t”
Jorge Martin did not enjoy ♓using the new Pramac fairing but admits Ducati want him to persevere
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin revealed that Pramac Ducati missed an internal deadline to decide which fairing to use in the first MotoGP race of the season.
Pramac hoped to finalise a decision on Wednesday, the second day of the Sepang test, but were unable to do so be🌱ca🐭use Martin didn’t enjoy using an updated fairing.
Instead, Martin and Pramac must face a significant problem on Thursday, th🏅e final day of the test, to put the wheels in moti🌠on for the start of the 2024 season.
“It was not an easy day,” Martin glumly said.
“For sure, we were fast at the beginning of the d💧ay with the old fairing.
“They 🅰we started to use the new fairing and I didn’t feel so good.
“Complicated day, because we should have decided the new fairing but we didn’𒁏t.
“Tomorrow 🍸we must understand if it is better, or if we keep the old one for 💙the first race.”
A potential problem is that Ducati might favour the new fairing, which they have put developmental work into, but Martin so far pr📖efers the old version.
Asked about Duca😼ti’s input to the decision, Martin said: “For sure, they did a lot of work. They ♚want it to work.
“They want me to ride ꩲwith it, to understand, to get a lot of information from it.
“But I don’t want to lose the way. Sometimes you start with one, then another one, cha♈nge a lot of th꧅ings.
“Then it’s not a good point.
“I want to understand well but witho♎ut losing my riding style.”
Martin described the new fairing: “It’s a bit mor🌸e heavy. I feel the bike is more heavy.
“The feeling on bꦬraking is better but, in the rest of the circuit, I struggle.
“Tomorrow we can understand the way to go and ma💃ybe do some changes on the bike to improve the feelꦐing.
“We need to keep working. I don’🅺t want to lose a lot🐟 of time because we have things to try tomorrow.
“It’s really important to und🔜erstand the fairing.”
He insisted that the quantity of tyres leftꦏ to use on the final day of the Sepang test will not influence the decision.
“I don’t n🌼eed a lot of laps,” he said. “We have to be clear, and understand if we have potential with the fairing, or go to the old one.
“Then we have some set-up and electronic parts to try, which we can do ꦆwith used tyres. This is not a big problem.
“But the fairing I really want to try.”
The final preseason test is in Qatar on February 19 and 20, potentially giving Pramac two more days to pondeඣr their big call.
The first round of the 2024 season is on Ma🃏rch 8-10 in Qatar.
“I guess we can still try ♋in Qatar,” Martin considered.
“But t💫he problem? We don’t have enough time. It’s better if we do something tomorrow.”
Martin narrowly missed out on last s🐻eason’s MotoGP championship to Francesco 🍃Bagnaia.
Both rider🥂s will return this year on the lꦬatest-spec Desmosedici.
The developmental talking points have added intrigue because Marc Marquez, with Gresin♉i, will have a ‘23 Ducati to start the year. The same bike which Martin and Bagnaia did battle with, last year.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything 🌠from American sports, to football, to F1.
