This weekend’s Styrian MotoGP presents the first of two back-to-back opportunities for Enea Bastianin𒆙i and Luca Marini to secure their best results of the season to date. 

Since making its return to the MotoGP World C💧hampionship in 2016, the Austrian Grand Prix has been won by Ducati on all five occasions, with only Miguel Oliveira the non Ducati rider to win a race at the Red Bull Ring (2020 Styrian Grand Prix).&🌱nbsp;

And with Ducati’s ever improving straight-line sꦕpeed - only really matched by KTM at times in 2021, rookies Bastianini and Marini are relishing the chance of using a ‘perfectly suited’ Ducati to get ‘closeꦉr to the leaders’.  

Bastianini said: "We are coming to 𓄧Austria, a circuit I like a lot. I don't know how it will be with MotoGP, but I'm full of energy. 

"During the break I haꦕve tried to relax but also to stay fit, because MotoGP is a very ꧅complicated category and I would like to adapt immediately. 

"The Ducati is a bike that is perfectly suited to this track and it has worked very well over the last few years, so we will do our best to get the﷽ best possible result."

Bastianini’ best result of the season🐠 to this point was a ninth🅷 in Portimao (round three), while Marini is yet to crack the top ten in a race. 

Nonetheless, last year’s Moto2 runner-up sees both races at Spielberg as an op൲portunity to score valuabl💝e points. 

Marini added: "I'm happy to be back racing, it's been a long ཧsummer break. I can't wait to get back to work and back on th🎶e bike. 

"We 🎉arrive in Austria, a very special circuit, with few corners and which I like. Ducati has always done well here, and our goal is to get closer to the leaders and score points. 

"We are going to run two races in a row at this circuit, and I'm sure that in the second week the ga🍌p will bಌe even smaller, which is another reason to work well from the first GP."