Ducati team boss Davide Tardozzi has confiꦺrmed that the Italian marque’s fact༒ory riders will race with the 2024 engine for the next two MotoGP seasons.

While Ducati has looked strong all pre-season, a question mark has hung over the decꦡision it would ta💮ke on what engine to race with in 2025.

With the GP24 ꦓalready a strong base package, having won 16 of 20 grands prix last year, the GP25 engine has to be a clear step forward given the two-year engine freeze coming into effect from this season.

While both 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia said on Wednesday at the Buriram test t🍌hat the 2025 engine is competitive, the former did admit it has some “very weak points”.

With the risk too great to homologate an engine for two years it isn’t sure about, Ducaꦅti has elected for Marquez, Bagnaia and VR46’s Fabio Di Giannantonio to race the 2024 motor.

“It has been taken and the engi༒ne for the 2025 and 2026 season will be the 2024,” Tardozzi said.

“As I said yesterday, Gigi [Dall’Igna] doesn’t want to ta♔ke any risks.

“It will be a big effort for our guys at home to build up engines for our three [factory] riders for ꦑthe first race, but Gigi has taken this decision. I think we will have those engines.”

Ducati to use old chassis and aero?

Ducati is now also facing the possibility of starting the 2025 campaign with its 2024 chassis and aerodynamics package too, with the marq♐ue set to retry these items at the post-Spanish GP test.

“It’s a real possibility,” Tardozzi added 🍷on racing with the 2024 chas🤡sis and aero.

“I think🐻 that the final decision on fairing and chassis will be taken tonight and I think we will postpone - having frozen the engine - to the test of Jerez the other new items that we have here🥀 and we would like to test again.

“There are some things that belong to electronics and suspension. That’s the 2025 parts that are on theꦏ bike right now.”

With all of Ducati’s six bikes now racing with 2024 engines, the factory will have to✨ work ha💙rd in the coming weeks to get all of those units made - though this is something Tardozzi isn’t worried about.

“As I said, it will be a big effort for the guys to buil♛d up those engines,” he said.

“But if we decide to do this it will be possible. I think that 20🍒24 b🐽ike is very difficult to improve.

“We tried hard but finally 🌠we didn’t find what we though and now we’ve taken the safest decision as possible for the riders.”