While MotoGP manuf🌺acturers debuted ‘2025’ machines during last November’s Barcelona test, they were still very🌌 much in prototype form.

But the upcoming Sepang tests, just🔯 a month before the Buriram season opener, are where the ‘real’ 2025 machines will be seen - at least in the case of defending champion Duc꧋ati.

That’s according to Alessio ‘Uccio’ Salucci, whose VR46 team receives official Ducati status this year and will benefit from a factory-spec Desmosedici GP25 for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio di Giannantonio.

Diggia missed the Barcelona test due to shoulder surgery and was replꦡaced by Ducati test rider Michele Pirro. But as Uccio made clear, the ‘GP25’ seen on track last year was a long way from the final version.

“Sincerely, about the bike of 2025, we don’t know 💧[the differences yet],ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ” Salucci said.

“Diggia was injured so we tried the bike in Barcelona with Pirro. ♓But we didn’t try the real 2025 bike. We tried some parts from 2024, some parts from 2025.

“The real bike will arrive in Sepang onও February 5th.

“So foꦚr us, it’s difficult to understand now the difference between the ‘24 and ’2🐓5 – also because Mr Gigi Dall’Igna don’t say nothing about the 2025 bike!

“When we arrive in Sepang, me and Pablo [N🦋ieto, team manager] will have 𒅌a meeting with him and it will be the first time that we understand the differences.”

Sa꧃lucci, whose team struggled on GP23s last year after winning races in 2022, added:

“For sure [the 25] will be better, but I think more-or-less the bike wiꦉll not change a lot like the 24.

“But the problem about the 23 bike was not that [Ducati] changed a lot the ’24 bike, it was that the tyres changed 🀅a lot.

“Michelin arrived with a new tyre construction lasꦗt year, and this rear tyre had more su𓄧pport, more grip.

“And💯 our [2🌸3] bike didn’t turn, because the rear part of the bike pushed [the front] a lot.

“So I don’t know the dif♐ferenc༺e from 24 to 25 yet, but I think they will be very similar.

“Also, because in ‘27 the rules change in MotoGP and now all the factories don’t push and [don't w🐻ant to✅] invest a lot, a lot, a lot. Because already they are starting to think about ‘27.”

Engine design for the current 1000cc machines will be frozen from the Thai season opener until the end of 2026, to allow manufacturers to divert🥂 resources towards the next generati𒁃on 850cc bikes.

A GP24 was fastest at the Barcelona test in the hands of Gresini’s Alex Marquez🔥 with factory Ducati Lenovo riders Francesco𒐪 Bagnaia and Marc Marquez third and fourth on the GP25.

VR46 team manager Pablo Nieto ech🔯oed Salucci’s comments, adding that, with di Giannantonio’s team-mate Franco Morbidelli on a GP24 this year, 'we can almost say' we have two fact🌸ory bikes.

“We start from zero [with di Giannantonio and the GP25] because as Uccio said in Barcelona we could🀅 not test with him," Nieto said.

"And it’s also true also that the bike we tested with Pirro wasn’t the [real 25] bike that we wi✃ll test next week in Mala𒁏ysia.

“From the ‘24 to ‘25 bike, we don’t know yet, but it looks like the gap won’t b🌃e so big. This is important for us because we can almost say 𓃲we have two factory bikes.”

The VR46 riders will be training on Superb☂ikes at Mandalika before heading to the official Sepang test, which takesꦚ place from February 5-7.

A shakedown test for rꦛookies, test riders and c𓄧oncession manufacturers starts on January 31st.