Ducati have hinted at the massive engine decision which their 2025 MotoGP season hinges on.

At this week's two-day Buriram test they must decide whether🧸 to commit to their new engine, or use last season's.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia, their factory riders, tested both in Sepang and know their title hopes rest upon making the right dౠecisi🤪on.

“It’s not onl🀅y an engine, it’s always a package of small things, and now the engineers will have time to analyse – a lot of laps for me, for Pecco [Francesco Ba﷽gnaia],” Marquez told MotoGP.com after the Sepang test.

“I think they will do a good decision ⛎because what I see these three days in the garage is they are veℱry brave and calm to take the correct decisions; [...] sometimes you need to be conservative when you have already the best bike.

“We need to be super-clear, super-sure, that it’s [the 2025 engine]𓄧 much better, and at the moment we don’t know. So, we need 🦄to wait.”

Marquez’s favouring of a con🎶servativ💙e approach to the 2025 bike comes from a desire to avoid risk, especially when any mistakes will have to be endured for two seasons – the length of Marquez’s current, and first, Ducati contract.

“We cannot take an unnecessary risk,” he said.

“We need t🌟o understand that, with the previous package, already they won 19 races from🐲 20.

“But of course always the engineer꧒s and the manufacturers want to improve.

“But if i🦋t’s not completely sure then it’s better to step back because it’s smart. But [there are] s🧸ome positives on the 2025, so still [we need to] try to understand.”

Ducati admit new engine 'missing something'

Marquez’s teammate, Francesco Bagnaia, offered the counter-poꦦint that tꦬhe 2024 engine is already one-year-old, although he also admitted that the 2025 engine is “still missing something”.

“The thing is that the GP24 is a fantastic machine and it’s work🍌ing super-well,” said Francesco Bagnaia, speaking to MotoGP.com.

“But it’s already [bꦐeen] one season that we are using it. The GP25, the engine, looks fantastic, the power deliv🔯ery is fantastic, but it’s still missing something.

“So, it’s not an easy choice and we still need these two days more in Thailand to underst🐬and.”

Bagnaia refused to confirm whether a sub-par time attack, where he 🤪lost time on two sectors, was while using the 2025 engine.

Ducati🎉 Lenovo team 💫manager Davide Tardozzi held a similar opinion to Marquez, and revealed that the balance after Sepang is leaning more in the direction of the 2024 engine.

“[The 2025 engine] has really good potential, but in the end we are thinking that the rules force us to be conservative bec🌞ause this engine must be used♉ for two years,” he said.

“S♐o, at this moment, the balance is a bit more towards the 2024 than the 2025. But the last d🌳ecision will be taken [in Thailand].”