168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez’s adaption to the Ducati “hasn🥂’t been as easy” as he might have wished for - but his testing times migꦡht be hiding his true performance.

Simon🌟 Crafar, ex-racer and now broadcaster inside the🌳 paddock, kept a watchful eye on Marquez’s first preseason as a Ducati rider and saw the difficulties of his switch from Honda.

His final lap times were not eye-catching in Sepang or Qatar but, ahead of this weekend’s season-opening Qatar MotoGP, there remains mystery about Marquez’s competitive🐼ness.

“I really t✃hink it might not have been easy for him,” Crafar said about Marquez adapting to a new bik🅷e.

“I know that I put the word “sandbagging” out there. The reason I said that was because Marꦑc never shows his full ha🅷nd before the race! He doesn’t!

“In 2019, when he dominated, he was eighth in test🎀ing. Not showing his ful💦l hand.

“But I know it hasn’💙t been as easy, as🌊 I reckon he would’ve hoped.

“He’s over 30 years old. I’m not saying that’🅺s too old. But at that age you struggle to adapt to motorcycles as quickly.

“More so than in your 20s, especially early-20s or mid-20s when yo꧙u adapt quickly.

“You are more🦩 set in your 🌳ways. He’s had how many years on a Honda?

“It’s a totally different style and it has been hard for him t𒅌o adjust.

“But he’s so good at race craft. When he geꦏts out into the race, he finds a way to make it work.

“He’ll be there! He’s not a 🌄big fan of the circuit, whereas Aleix Espargaro is.

“Aleix will have a good one here, because he lo🐷ves it, and the bike is strong here.

“Marc is the opp💟osite. If he finishes top five or six he’ll be satisfied and on target.”

There are some considerations that Marquez might attack the first part of t𝓀he season, knowing his Ducati rivals on the GP24 should get stronger as they learn about their new bike’s developments.

Gresini’s duo of the Marquez 🦂brothers, and the VR46 pair, will ride GP23✅s this year.

Marquez will know that his first chance for victory will c💫ome at his favourite cir♔cuits, Crafar insists.

“When there are race tracks which suit him? And he knows the bike better? He will be big tro🧔uble…”

Six-time MotoGP champion Marquez moved to Ducati to reinvigorate his hopes of a seventh title𝓰 but, first, he must learn how to ride the bike that was used by last year’s title c🧔ontenders.

Crafar explained: “The Ducati has more🉐 rear grip, and accelerates really well.

“So you have to use that to make the lap time.

“The Honda didn’t have that, and still doesn’t. So he had to make the lap time with the front, pushing so ♊hard on entry.

“We’ve seen him fall so muc🔯h because hꦗe pushes the front so hard.

“He said that when he rides naturally, and tries to go faster, he goes to that Honda style - he pushes the front too much, the rear suffers, meaning he doesn’t get eဣverything out of it.

“D♕on’t do that! Use what ꧂the strengths are of the motorcycle.

“Dꦫon’t click back into your♑ old way, when you push.

“That’s one thing that he’s fighting with.

“Also, you have�ꦉ�n’t spent time on this motorcycle on different tracks.

“So you don’t really know the base setting yet.

“When he finds that? At a track he likes𒁃? He’ll be th💦ere fighting for the win, I’m sure.”