Francesco Bagnaia has performed down new team-mate Marc Marquez’s feedback that the Italian double MotoGP champion begins 2025 with extra ‘standing’ than him, since he’s the ‘reference’ within the manufacturing facility Ducati staff.
However Bagnaia, who missed out on his third title in a row by simply ten factors to Jorge Martin this season, added the situation would change if a transparent distinction in championship place emerged between the team-mates.
“Logically there’s a standing and the one who calls the pictures is Pecco,” Marquez, a six-time MotoGP champion for Honda between 2013-2019, stated just lately.
“As a result of Pecco has given two world titles to Ducati, the one who gained eleven races final 12 months and logically, he must be the one who calls the pictures this pre-season and within the first few races.
“I’ll attempt to work to get nearer to him as a result of he’s the reference, the rider who has made Ducati win the championship once more, and who’s going very quick.”
Requested about these feedback at Ducati’s ‘Campioni in Festa’ celebration in Bologna on Tuesday night, Motorsport.com quotes Bagnaia as saying:
“I imagine that ultimately the ‘quantity ones’ within the field usually are not there and shouldn’t be there.
“The season all the time begins in the beginning, with the riders having the identical say and I imagine that issues change in the course of the season, as a result of each time you begin from scratch.
“I imagine that this is similar factor, that if in the course of the season one rider is forward [in the championship] and the opposite additional again, it’s important to work to attempt to assist the one in entrance.
“I feel that Marc, being a particularly clever individual, instantly understood what the surroundings is and what the way in which of working is that we have now.
“Within the [Barcelona] take a look at we did an excellent job [together], so if we proceed like this, we’re already on a great path.”
Bagnaia and Marquez have been third and fourth quickest on a prototype model of subsequent 12 months’s GP25 on the Barcelona take a look at.
The Italian felt the change of venue, after the cancellation of Valencia, was helpful for testing functions.
“This 12 months in Barcelona the observe higher [for testing] from many factors of view: you attain one of many highest prime speeds within the World Championship and the grip stage is low, so you possibly can take a look at extra issues,” he defined.
“Marc and I had comparable emotions and it was very optimistic, as a result of we managed to establish fairly rapidly the issues to work on. Those which might be higher and those which might be worse.
“On the finish of the day it was additionally simpler for the engineers and for Gigi to establish the trail to observe to reach a bit of extra prepared in Malaysia.”
The official Sepang take a look at takes place from February 5-7, 2025.