Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales says the lap time gains Ducati can make ꦿfrom Saturday to Sunday during MotoGP race weeken⭕ds is “difficult to expect”.

Ducati has commanded total domination of the 2024 MoꦯtoGP season so far, with its riders winning all but one grands prix out of the 16 run as of the Japanese GP.

It wrapped up the constructors’ ꧅championship at the Emilia Romagna GP and is now guaranteed to celebrate a third successive riders’ title in 2024.

The s🌠tep forward Ducati made with its GP24 took the grid by su🐼rprise, with a key strength of the bike the apparent way it can utilise the grip offered by Michelin’s new rear tyres.

Vinales is the only rider to have beaten a Ducati on a Sunday so far in 2024, following his﷽ Americas GP win back in Aprilꦜ.

And while Aprilia was a consistent podium threats early on to🐠 Ducati, that challenge has fallen away, with only Tech3 GASGAS rookie Pedro Acosta in recent rounds able to🅷 be on terms with the Desmosedici.

Asked about how Ducati is able to gain so much across a race weekend, Vinales told reporters at the Indonesian GP: “It’s always a good question, because we can see how muc൩h how the Ducati squad can improve from Saturday to Sunday.

“And it’s difficult to expect, because i🌱n many t🅘racks if you take Friday, you can see yourself in the battle for winning the race.

“But when we get to Saturday, they are 0.3s faster. So, it’s quite hard to understand if it’s something technical, 🍎if the bike is strong enough to be constant in all the tracks.

“But it’s tru💮e that, for example, Pedro and myself were l💜ooking really strong and a challenger for the Ducatis at the start of the season, but now it’s on and off with results.

“Th𝓡ey are able to be much more consistent. It’s a question all of us try to understand how they are able to be consistent in every track.

“It doesnꦅ’t matter of the conditions, wet, dry, half - they ar♔e always fast.

“We need to really understand and I think all of the paddock is asking that, 🐓why they are able to be so fast⛦ in all conditions.”