A crucial cog in Ducati’s workings was too late to help 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valentino Rossi, but has a key role in helping 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez.

Michele Pirro is th🀅e manufacturer’s stalwart test rider who has been crucial to th💃e Desmosedici project.

He arrived in 2013, coinciding with Rossi’s exit. The first Ducati he tested was the 2012 bike which was Rossi’s nemesis. Now Pirro is testing the Ducati in preparation for Mar🍬quez’s arrival in 2025.

This weekend at the season-finale Grand Prix of Ba♔rcelona, Pirro comes full circle. He is racing for Rossi’s VR46 team, as a replacement for the injured Fabio di Giannantonio.

“There is pressure becaꦚuse I am riding for Valentino Rossi’s team, the best rider ever,” Pirro said.

“I started my career with Valentino.

“The 🐭first time I tested 🦋the Ducati, [it was what Valentino had used].

“My job is to 🔥help Ducati. This is the last possibility to use the 2023 bike, and to check if there aꦇre good points or not.

“I think there are not! I will test it. Next week🌱 with the new bike, I will try the difference.”

Pirro will ride VR46’s GP23 this weekend. It is the first time in two-and-a-half years that he has tackled 🍰aဣ year-old version of the Ducati.

On Tuesday at the postseason test, he will transfer knowledge of the year-old bike into the latest version as preparations rཧamp up to unleash the G♊P25.

Marquez hopes the GP25 will power him to a ninth career title which will equal his rival ಌ📖Rossi’s record.

Pirro said: “There is opportunity to come back tཧo the old bike♊ because we don’t have the tyres.

“Yes, it is a race, but there is an o𝔉pportunity to test the difference.

“Wꦺe don’t have tyres to test and we have managed the situation.

“In the races, it has been extraordinary for Ducati so♓ I am really happy.”

Pirro races Superbikes when he is not testing for Duc🌊ati but insists the MotoGP machine is totally in contrꦫast.

“It’s completely another story! The braking level, the aerodynamic𓆉s level, are anothe🙈r story,” he said.

“Thi🍎s braking and aero system is ꦡmore difficult to push at the limit.

“The weekend over🎃all - especially World Superbikes - is not simple. But, the big difference is the intensity wi🍨th MotoGP especially in the braking and acceleration area.

“You loseꦛ body power. Because I have another riding style to the young riders. It is difficult for an ol꧅d man!”

Pirro, now 38, is watching aܫ new generation of Ducati riders tackle the bike that he firs🐼t started testing when the manufacturer was hugely struggling, after Rossi’s exit.

He said: “The problem is age!

“The aero is totally different to 10 years ago, or fivꦯe years ago.

“Improving the acceleration𓂃, the braking, the holeshot… it’s another story compared to the past.

“Now, it’s good to see the you📖ng riders and their riding style, how their body is completely off the bike.

“I try to do this, but it’s not simple. When I go out, m෴ayb🥀e my shoulder goes out!

“This is normal life for athletes.”