Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales says the lap time positive factors Ducati could make from Saturday to Sunday throughout MotoGP race weekends is “troublesome to anticipate”.
Ducati has commanded complete domination of the 2024 MotoGP season thus far, with its riders successful all however one grands prix out of the 16 run as of the Japanese GP.
It wrapped up the constructors’ championship on the Emilia Romagna GP and is now assured to have a good time a 3rd successive riders’ title in 2024.
The step ahead Ducati made with its GP24 took the grid unexpectedly, with a key energy of the bike the obvious approach it might probably utilise the grip supplied by Michelin’s new rear tyres.
Vinales is the one rider to have crushed a Ducati on a Sunday thus far in 2024, following his Americas GP win again in April.
And whereas Aprilia was a constant podium threats early on to Ducati, that problem has fallen away, with solely Tech3 GASGAS rookie Pedro Acosta in current rounds capable of be on phrases with the Desmosedici.
Requested about how Ducati is ready to acquire a lot throughout a race weekend, Vinales instructed reporters on the Indonesian GP: “It’s all the time a very good query, as a result of we will see how a lot how the Ducati squad can enhance from Saturday to Sunday.
“And it’s troublesome to anticipate, as a result of in lots of tracks if you happen to take Friday, you’ll be able to see your self within the battle for successful the race.
“However after we get to Saturday, they’re 0.3s sooner. So, it’s fairly arduous to know if it’s one thing technical, if the bike is powerful sufficient to be fixed in all of the tracks.
“But it surely’s true that, for instance, Pedro and myself have been wanting actually robust and a challenger for the Ducatis initially of the season, however now it’s on and off with outcomes.
“They’re able to be rather more constant. It’s a query all of us attempt to perceive how they’re able to be constant in each monitor.
“It doesn’t matter of the circumstances, moist, dry, half – they’re all the time quick.
“We have to actually perceive and I feel all the paddock is asking that, why they’re able to be so quick in all circumstances.”
