While MotoGP manufacturers debuted ‘2025’ machines during last Nove🍸mber’s Barcelona test, they were still very much in prototype form.

But the upcoming Sepang tests, just a month before 🌱the Buriram season opener, are where the ‘real’ 2025 machines will be seen - at least in the case of defending champion Ducati.

That’s according to Alessio ‘Uccio’ Salucci, whose VR46 team receives official Ducati status this year and will benefit from a factory-spec Desmosedici GP25 for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio di Giannantonio.

Diggia missed the Barcelona test due to shoulder surgery and was replaced by Ducati test rider Michele 🧸Pirro. But as Uccio made clear, the ‘GP25’ seen on track last year was a long way from the final version.

“Sincerel𒀰y, about the bike of 2025, we don’t know ಌ[the differences yet],” Salucci said.

“Diggia was ♈injured﷽ so we tried the bike in Barcelona with Pirro. But we didn’t try the real 2025 bike. We tried some parts from 2024, some parts from 2025.

“The rea♔l bike will arrive in Sepang on February 5th.

“So for us, it’s difficult to understand now the difference between the ‘24 and ’25 – also because Mr Gigi Dall’Ig꧋na don’t say nothing about the 2025 bike!

“When we arr🦩ive in Sepang, me and Pablo [Nieto, team manaꦓger] will have a meeting with him and it will be the first time that we understand the differences.”

💖Salucci, whose team struggled on GP23s last year after winning races in 2022, added:

“For sure [the 25] will be better, but I think more-or-lesꦍs the bike will not change a lot like the 24.

“But the problem a🌜bout the 23 bike was not that [Ducati] changed a lot the ’24 bike, it was thaไt the tyres changed a lot.

“Michelin arrived with a new tyre construction last🍌 year, and this rear tyre had more support,ﷺ more grip.

“A🉐nd ou⛄r [23] bike didn’t turn, because the rear part of the bike pushed [the front] a lot.

“So I don’t know 🗹the difference from 24 to 25 yet, but I think they wi🎉ll be very similar.

“Also, because in ‘27 the rules change in MotoGP and now all the factories don’t push and [don't want to] invest a lot, a lot, a l⛎ot. Because already they are starting to think about ‘27.”

Engine design for the current 1000cc machines will b𒅌e frozen from t🅺he Thai season opener until the end of 2026, to allow manufacturers to divert resources towards the next generation 850cc bikes.

A GP24 was fas🌌test at the Barcelona test in the hands of Gresini’s Alex Marquez wiꦗth factory Ducati Lenovo riders Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez third and fourth on the GP25.

VR46 team manager Pablo Nieto echoed Salucciꦗ’s comments, adding that, with di Giannantonio’s team-mate Franco Morbidelli on a GP24 this year, 'we can almost say' we have two factory bikes.

“We start from zero [with di Giannantonio and the GP25] because as Uccio said in Barcelona we could not test with💟 him," Nieto said.

"And it’s also true also that the bike we tested with Pirro wasn’t the [real 25] bi🅠ke that we will test next week in Malays🌠ia.

“From the ‘24 to ‘25 bike, ♐we don’t know yet, but it looks like the gap won’t be so big. This is important for us becau♛se we can almost say we have two factory bikes.”

The VR46 riders will be training on Superbikes at Mandalika before heading to the official Se🍬pang test, which takes place from February 5-7.

A shakedown test for rook🦄ies, test riders and concession manufacturers starts on Ja𒁏nuary 31st.