Alex Marquez teases Pirro: “You said GP23-24 was not a big difference!”
“I was joking a bit with him because♛ I saw in m♎any interviews he said it was not a big difference!”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez teased Ducati test rider Michele Pirro over some past comments upon the Italian’s return to the GP23 at this weekend’s Solidarity Barcelona MotoGP.
While Alex’s brother Marc Marquez has won three GPs on the year-old satellite bike, the other GP23 rider🍸s have only two podiums bet🐭ween them, often citing front-end issues compared to the previous GP22.
Pirro h🔥as spent this year developing the factory GP24, which will win the world championship with either Jorge Martin or Francesco Bagnaia on Sunday.
But he has been drafted back onto the older bike as an injur𒊎y replacement for Fabi꧋o di Giannantonio at VR46.
“Michele said to me, ‘this bike is pushing a lot the front’,” Alex ಞsaid on Saturday.
“I replied, ‘you said it ꦏwas not a big difference compared 23 and 24!’
“I was joking a bit with him because I saw in many interviews he said it was not a big differ🌊ence!”
The reason for Pirro’s change of opinion is probably that when the Italian 🍒last rode the GP23, over a year ago, it was still fitted with the 2023 rear tyre construction.
"It was good to see the difference between the 23 and 24 bike," Pirro said after finishing the Sprint in 21st, his first MotoGP ra💧ce of the year.
"The 23 bike loses in some areas with this [2024] tyre.🦄 Maybe in some races 🐽it's okay, in others it's more difficult to manage."
Michelin revised its rear tyre for this year. While the latest Ducati GP24 was designed and developed around the characteristics of the new tyre, the step in rear grip looks to have upset the balance of the G𝕴P23.
“Michele said to me - a🥀nd it’s true - that this year they changed the rear tyre,” Marquez confirme෴d.
“So maybe this bike last yꦑ🐭ear, with last year’s tyre, was better for the front pushing that he's suffering [with now].
"So it's like it is and now he knows the difference exactly🦩.”
Marquez added: “I'm not saying that the GP2ಌ4 is clearly better [than the GP23].
"For s𒅌ure, in some points it will be slightly wo🔯rse, because you cannot improve a bike in every area.”
The #73 now has just a few days to wait until he finds out the differences for hiꦛmself with a debut on the GP24 at Tuesday’s post-race test.
“No expectations,” he insisted of his future machine▨. “Try to enjoy, try to feel what the 24 bike is doing, try to make the maximum laps and say to Ducati the things that I feel.”
Asked if he thinks the Ducati satelli𓂃te-factory gap will be smaller than this year, Marquez r♔eplied:
“I hope that the 24 is better than the 25!
"Or like GP22 to GP23, that was really equal. If we 🦄are lucky, it will be like this and we will be cl꧟oser than this year.”
Marquez was speaking afteﷺr 💧a fifth-place finish in the Barcelona Sprint.
So far th𒀰is weekend Alex has outpaced his brother in ✃every session bar qualifying, when Alex slumped to eleventh and Marc used a tow behind Francesco Bagnaia for a place on the front row.
“I had a really good feeling in the Sprint. I was even dre⛄aming of fighting for victory,” he said. “Because I was in fourth and if I could overtake Enea a🍸nd Martin quickly...
“But when the GP24 has nobody in front, no slipstream, at least we can arrive to the brake point close to them. But I had Enea i🔯n front, who had the slipstream of Jorge and it was like ‘ciao’.
“I'm quite angry with my qualifying, which was not what we needed," he continued. "They cancelled one lap when I touched a little bit the g💛reen and that lap was to be in P6.
“But we were lucky to find the right spaces in the first corners and that will also be the key [on Sunday]. We have a goo꧒d pace. We have a good feeling. We 🐼have everything, but to overtake is quite difficult here.”
Sunday’s grand prix will also be the last for the Marquez brothers as team-mates✅ with Marc moving to the factory Ducati squad alongside Bagnaia in 2025.
“We know that Gresini is a really big family🔯, then if you add to this that Marc and I are brothers. It was something super nice," Alex said of this season.
Alex will start the season fi♋nale holding tenth in the world c♔hampionship, five points behind Franco Morbidelli and eight ahead of Aleix Espargaro.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and 🐻has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s 𒈔injury issues.
