Pecco Bagnaia names where Marc Marquez “does something different to the rest”

Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez describe each other’s most impressi🧜ve riding skills.

Francesco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez
Francesco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez

New Ducati team-mates 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez, also the only multi-time MotoGP champions o🍎n the currentꦚ grid, have named each other’s most impressive riding skills.

Speaking in Duca🌺ti’s ‘’ YouTube interview, Bagnaia, who came up ten points short of Jorge Martin for a third MotoGP crown last season, said:

“[Marc] has twꦡo skills that are💧 impressive for me. The [first is] the way he enters a dirty track, when its very slippery, and finds a fantastic feeling.

“We saw that clearly at Aragon last year, that was quite tricky, and he was much faster than anybody else. In qualifying he was eight-tenths clear. 𒁏So it was an impressive one.

“And also, the way he approaches left-hand corners. He does something different compared to all the rest. I’ve tried but every time I lost a bit the front! So I have to lea💃rn this kind of thing.”

Mar🦩quez, renowned for his success at anticlockwise tracks such as COTA, Sachsenring, Aragon and Phillip Island, faces the opposite challenge.

“For me, his strong point is the way he does the fast right-hand corners that actually are my weak p𒆙oint. But he is super-fast in that kind of corner,” said the eight-time world champion.

“Also, he has a very strong brake point.

“Those two things are a good combination to b🍎e a world champion tꦬwo times with Ducati, so I will try to learn from him.”

However, Marquez’s Gresini crew chief Frankie Carchedi told ltxcn.top at the end of last year that the Spaniard had already made major ❀progress in closing the right-hand gap.

“Every rider, no matter who they are, has strengths and weaknesses,” Carcheಞdi said. “The most pleasing thing for me was the improvement in the fast right corners at the end of the year.

"We were fastest [for average pace] in the last sector over the Catalunya race, which is purely fast right-hand corners. And 🌟the same in Sector 1 at Sepang, which has the very fast turn 3.

"So to be tha♐t good by the end, in an area that I'm s🌊ure he'll still say is his weakness... He's in a pretty good position for the future, put it that way!”

Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco Bagnaia

Data sharing “a double-edged sword”

Ducati’s policy of open data sha൩ring among its MotoGP riders (shrinking from eight to six in 2025) means areas of gain or loss are soon identified.

It is also thought that Ducati compiles a post-race report for each rider, spelling out their strengths and weaknesses 🌊to help them improve.

“Normally I look at all the competitive Ducati riders,” Bagnaia 𓂃said of the data. ꩲ“Because many riders do different things in a good way. So it’s important and curious to see the way other riders are doing their lap time.

“For example, at Jerez last year I learned a lot [from Marquez] in cor𝄹ner 7 and 8 during the weekend. And when he arrived close to me [in the race], I just tried to improve on that area.

“Then from the moment he overtook me for the first ti♉me, I improved in sector 3. So it was super useful also to see what he was doing there.”

Marquez agreed: “Of course, you are looking at all the top Ducati riders. And last year, especially the first part of the season, I was looking a lot at what Pecco and Martin were doing, the two fastest guys. But 🅠especially🌼 Pecco, because he was in the factory team, to try to understand the set-up.

“Then the second part of the season was different because I followed more my way, because I started to understand better the bike and what I needed. But it’s a good strategy Ducati has, sharing all tꦫhe information among all the🧸 riders. Like this it’s easier to improve.”

While all Ducati riders can learn som💫ething from each other, ⛦the biggest beneficiaries are those who need to catch up, since they can quickly spot the secrets of faster riders.

As such, Bagnaia called data sharing, now also commonplace among other ﷺmanufacturers, a ‘double-edged sword’.

“It’s the reason why last year we were dominating everything, I think,” Bagnaia said of a sea🥂son in which Ducati was beaten in just one grand prix.

“If you want to improve, to increase your potential faster, you have to share the data. Like also in🔥 Moto2, where Kalex did the same. It’s the best and fastest way to improve because you see many things, you can test many things.

“It’s good ൩and bad [for a rider], in some situations. Because sometimes you are doing so♍mething different, that is super competitive, but you know that everybody can see it.

“I accepte❀d it from the first time I arrived [at Ducati]. But it’s like a double-♔sided sword.”

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