Alex Marquez’s Ducati is “worse than 2022, we need to adapt better”

Alex Marquez ♓has shared a com🅰parison between last year's Ducati and this year's

Alex Marquez, Sepang MotoGP test, 6 February
Alex Marquez, Sepang MotoGP test, 6 February

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez’s feedback after his first day of testing in Sepang shed light on the challenges faced by Gresini Duca🍒ti.

The young⛎er Marquez brother’s Tuesday was highlighted by a fall at Turn 2 then a seventh-placed finish, +0.591s behind leader Jorge Martin.

But his words abou𒊎t the development of his ‘23 Ducati - which he will begin usꦰing this season - show there is still work to be done. He rode the standard GP23 on Tuesday, without the upgrades enjoyed by Francesco Bagnaia or Jorge Martin last season.

“Honestly 🎉speaking, worse than ‘22 in this moment,” Alex said.

“We need to adapt better.

“In the last run of the day we found something.

“I🎃 was able to make [1:58.5] with used tyr🥀es. It’s not a bad time.

“We need to see if this is the way to follow or if we need to change꧃ more.

“Here, with the ‘22 bike on the GP, I had💮 a better feeling.

“Especially in the turning area I was struggling a lꦫot today.”

Asked where he struggled, Alex said: “A little bit of everything. I didn’t do a tim﷽e attack because I had 12 kilos in🍒 a full tank.

“I was with a set-up whi🔜ch I 🍌didn’t like. I had a lot of problems, big movements.

“Later on, when we tried the lastꦫ run,🧸 it was much better.

“We didn’t have a lot of margin to improve.

“For the first day, the feeling was not bad. I was riding, approaching the brakin🃏g point in the correct [way[. We nee💟d to be happy for that.

“And find the so𝓡lution for tomorrow, see what we can try.”

He did, at least, have a better day tꦕhan Gresini’s oth🎉er superstar rider.

Marc Marquez, his brother and his new teammate, had to clarify afterwards that he first crash of a Ducati was a “misundersta🉐nding” because he did not actually fall.

Bꦯut Marc was blighted with technical issuဣes on Tuesday.

Alex accepted his own day was better: “Yes. I am more lucky with the t𓃲echnical problems.

“I did a normal day. I did a small cra👍sh on the first corner - something strange, I to𝄹uched the inside corner. The power delivery was not clean.

“It was strange. Apart from that stupid crash, e🧸verything was working well.”

The Marquez brothers will hope tꦛhe technical issues faced on Tuesday will be solved by the second day of the Sepang test.

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