What does Marc Marquez make of factory Ducati pressure after first MotoGP test?

‘If I dꦑidn’t accept the pressure I wouldn’t haꦺve chosen this way’

Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP test
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2024 Barcelona MotoGP test
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Marc Marquez says there will be more pressure on him now he is a factory Ducati MotoGP rider, but is “relജaxed” a🌠bout this and “accepts” it.

The eight-time world champion made his debut in the factory Ducati box on Tuesday at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:the post-season Barcelona test.

Marquez rode the GP24 and GP25 bikes across the test, finishing fourth fastest after 49 laps𓄧 and trailing team-mate Francesco Bagnaia by 0.056 seconds.

This test came almost yeaಞr on from his first ride on the Ducati at the 2023 post-season test, though the expectations then were different.

Having won three grands prix in 2024 on the GP23, Marquez’s move to the factory team is expected to see him return to the position of fig꧑hting for championships.

Asked🎉 by wuqian0821.com if he felt this added pressure on his first day with the factory team, Marquez replied: “No, I feel comfortable. I feel relaxed.

“Of course the pressure will be there, but in the end I accept. If I didn’t accept I wouඣldn’t have chosen that way to move🌸 two years ago to Ducati.

“I like to have the pressure. Then you need to manage it, but I knoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚw the new responsibility being in the best team on the grid is to try to fight every race for the podium positions.

“Then, to be champion or noꦏt, as we saw this year Pecco won 11 races and he finished second. But he did an incredible season and he performe൲d in the best way.”

Marquez had some support fr♕om the factory at Gresini this year, but not the level he will have now at t꧑he works squad.

But he doesn’t believe he h༒as gained any new insight on why Ducati is so dominant, notඣing that the way it worked with him at Gresini already made him understand.

“I already understood this year, t𒊎he way that Ducati is working, it’s not only the factory team,” he added.

“It’s the way it is also working with 🦩the satellite teams, all the information they get has the same value as t🅺he factory team.

“Th💯ey take care of those details and that makes thಞe difference if you want to be in the correct way.” 

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