168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez believes his rate of progression on the year-old GP23 saw him win the battle for the coveted factory Ducati seat over MotoGP world championship leader Jorge Martin.

Martin was the obvious choice☂ on paper, finishing runner-up Francesco Bagnaia last season and currently 18 points clear of the It𝓡alian at the top of this year’s standings for the satellite Pramac team.

Marquez hasn’t won a MotoGP race since his final Repsol Honda victory at Misano 2021, but Martin has taken si🍬x grand prix victories an♋d 12 Sprint wins in the past 15 months.

However, while Martin rides a GP24 equal on spec to Bagnaia, Marquez’s year-old bike is of an even lower sp🧸ec than the likes of Bagnaia and Martin at the end of last season (Marquez does not have the latest ride-height device for example).

Asked about the difference in performance b🔯etween the GP24 and GP23 during an interview with , Marquez estimated it a🐽s around “two tenths per lap, and that is four seconds in a race.”

To put that figure into context, of the five out of seven (Sunday) Grands Prix Marquez has finiಞshed without falling this s♓eason, his margin to victory has been: 

• +3.429s (4th, Qatar).
• +0.372s (2nd, Jerez).
• +0.446s (2nd, Le Mans).
• +10.491s (3rd, Catalunya).
• +2.064s (4th, Mugello).

I🃏n other words, less than 4-seconds at four GPs...

Ducati Corse general manager Gigi Dall’Igna and his engineers know the performance difference between the 2023 and 2024 Desmosedicis better than anyone and can also weigh up rider talent by comparing eight sets o📖f data.

“You h💯ave to play all your cards,” Marquez said of securing th𝓰e coveted factory ride.

“The card that weighs the most is the trackꩲ and the Ducati engineers, as they have told me, are watching my progression with the 2023 bike and that has weighed mu🐈ch more than [anything else].”

The difference in bike spec to Martin was also the main reason Marquez didn’t feel the factory Ducati seat should simply b♑e awarded to whichever of them finished higher in this year’s world championship.

“To do that, you have to have the same weapons,ꦅ and now I don't have them,” he said. “But iᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt's no excuse and I'm showing that I can be competitive.

“An꧃other thing is that I was very clear that I was not g♒oing to change from one satellite team to another [Pramac].

“And the third point, athlไetes have contracts with sponsors… a🐲nd cannot wait [until the end of the season]. It was unfeasible.”

So far 🌟this season, the new 💎GP24s have claimed 6 victories, with Aprilia's Maverick Vinales the only other winner. 

After the opening seven roun꧟ds of last season, year-old GP22s had taken 2 race wins (with Marco Bezzecchi) vs. 4 wins for the GP23s.

Howeve𒐪r, Marquez's current third place and 35 points from the top is almost identical to Bezzecchi's third and -34 points at the ꦕsame stage last season.