But the older, 2022 bike was also victorious, winni🅺ng 4 MotoGPs in the hands of Marco Bezzecchi and Fabio di Giannantonio, with💧 the VR46 rider also third overall in the world championship.

As such, it’s no surprise that newly crowned double MotoGP champion Bagnaia is aiming to combine the best of both⭕ recent b✱ikes for 2024.

“The good thing about the old [2💖022] bike was the entrance of the ♔corners. You could keep a lot of speed and it had more turning,” Bagnaia said.

“Last year’s [2023] bike was ve🐟ry good on traction, very good on the first part of braking, but I was losing a lot in tꦅhe entrance to the corners.

“I think that the weight distribution of the ’24 bike is more similar to the ‘22. It helped me, and also I think Enea [Bastianini], on the entrance to the cornersꩲ.”

While Bagnaia focussed on engine developments 🧔at last month’s Valencia test, saying he was pleased with the ‘connection’ he felt under acceleration but would like the power delivery to be refined, he will turn attention to 🦩the chassis at the Sepang test in February.

“I asked just to try things about the engine, becaඣuse I don't want to filter too much the [new] engine,” he said. “For things abo♔ut the chassis we will have Malaysia.”