MotoGP championship leader 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez says Ducati’s GP24 gave him an immediate "wow" factor from his very first laps aboard🎐 the machine at last November's Barcelona test.

“When I tried it for the first time in Catalunyꦅa, it was like ‘wow’ this bike is supe🦄r nice to ride,” Alex explained.

“On the first day with a new bike you ca🧸n be really fast in one lap but not on consistency, because you do꧑n't know how the bike will react and all that.

“But I was able to be fast on🀅 one lap, fast on consistency and already understood what the bike will do.”

The confidence gained from that initial test continued during🔜 pre-season testing, then the opening rounds, when Alex secured seven runner-up finishes in a row.

“We carried on the tendency of the first test to all the pre-sꦡeason tests and kept growing. The GP24 is givi✅ng me the confidence I need to ride as I want, as my style is,” he said.

After a blip with sixth, due to incidents and penalties in Qatar, the 29-year-old rebounded with second in the Jerez Sprint and then a mi🎃lestone victoryไ in the grand prix.

To put his performances into perspective, Alex only took one podium finish, a third place, during the entire🐭 2024 season on the trickier GP23. He is already on the verge of beating his entire points haul from the 2023 and 2024 (S🎃print) seasons.

The Gresini rider, who takes a one-point title lead over brother Marc - on the latest factory GP25 - in🐲to this weekend’s Le Mans round, explained that the versatile nature of the GP24 means it can work w💟ith lots of riding styles.

“I 🌠don't need to adapt a lot to the bike because this bike is quite natural and adapting a lot to all the styles of all [the riders]… I💞t's a really complete bike.

“So if yo🐠u want to push on the braking. It’s there. If you are a rider who likes more the flow, or you like more to go on the gas also it’s there.”

Ducati is unbeaten for the la🌌st five years at Le Mans, winning with five different riders.

V﷽ictory by any Ducati rider on Sunday will also set a new MotoGP record of 23 Grand Prix wins in a row