Explained: How the factory Ducati will be better than Marc Marquez’s GP23
Ducati technical director spills secre🌠t about the key difference between the GP23 and GP24

Marc Ma🌳rquez’s Ducati this season will lack the developments that will be added to four of his rivals’ 𝄹bikes.
Factory Ducati pair France♏sco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini, and Pramac’s Jorge Martin and Franco Morbidell, will profit from the new GP24.
The Marquez brothers at Gresini, 🌌andꦡ VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi and Fabio di Giannantonio, must ride a year-old Desmosedici.
Ducati technical director Da🐽vide Barana told how the newer version will be more advanced than Marquez’s: “"I think the difference between GP24 and GP23 will 🉐be higher than that between GP23 and GP22.”
He identified the key change as “power”.
Baꦿrana explained: "Reach 370 km/h? No, it will be noti✤ceable in very few km/h.
“To achieve 🌟almost ten km/h, dozens of horsepower are ne♚eded.
“Furthermore, 🍰top speed depends on power, but also on aerodynamics.
"If you have a lot of surface area꧋ to ꦛmake downforce, it will cost you more in top speed.
“But there ar꧑e other things, that's why you have to reach꧃ a balance.
"Then, 𒈔we will have an aerodynamic package, which, as usual, we wi𓄧ll take to Sepang.
“In the presentation we saw the aerodyna♌mics of the previous year... also because we have few parts, we always arrive at the last minute.
“The difference will be visi✅ble. The differences are quite clear.
“In the simulations, on paper, it gives us good results and it has to be confirmed on the track by the riders, a🎃t the level of 🌞feeling.”
Marque✱z tested a GP22 at the postseason Valencia 𒐪test, his Ducati debut, last year.
He will join every other MotoGP rider in tes𒁏ting his new machinery at the Sepang test on February 6-8.
Honda and Yamaha riders will have a head-start, and be allowed to test at the shakedown on February 1-3, due to the new concessi💯ons rules.

James was 🌄a sports journalist at Skyꦇ Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.