Franco Morbidelli on VR46 debut: “We have this magical thing”
“We have this 𝕴magical thing and we need to use it”

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli is eager to leverage his ‘magical’ relationship with VR46 as he slots into Valentino Rossi’s MotoGP team for 2025.
The Italian, the VR46 Academy’🌳s first world champion (Moto2 2017) and MotoGP race winne✨r (2020) is moving across from the Pramac team.
As well as familiar surroundings, Morbidelli iꦕs one of the few riders on the grid who will keep the same specification of mach♓ine in 2025.
Morbidelli had a factory D🧸esmosedici GP24 at Pramac this year, as taken to the title by team-mate Jorge Martin, but lost all of pre-season testing due to head injuries.
The former Yamaha title runner-up went on to take a Sprint pod♓ium at Misano, fourth in the Indonesian GP and ninth in the final standings.
He th⛄en made his P🌱ertamina VR46 debut with seventh place (+0.762s) at Tuesday’s Barcelona test.
“Today was important just to get to know the peop♒le I'm goi🥂ng to work with next year,” Morbidelli said.
That includes ex-Marco Bezzecchi crew chiꦫef Matteo Flamigni, formerly Rossi’s electronic engineer.
“I꧂’ve known many members of the team for years and it's a gre🤡at honour to be able to work together,” Morbidelli said.
“I've been following Matteo since I was a❀ child, he made history with Vale when he was his electronics engineer and we had a good feeling𝄹.”

Morbidelli added: “The admiration I h📖ave for all the people inside the team and the knowledge we have with each other - we have this magical thing and we need to use it in the best way.
"We need to use it to bond and connect in the q𝔍uickest way possible to achieve💯 what we want."
Tuesday's introduction was very much a caseꦦ of so fa🌳r, so good.
“It was a great first day,” Morbidelli said. “We did some changes on the bike just to understand what w🎐as happening to build knowledge between me and the crew.
“And that's going to make the difference ♛next year. The better we get to know each other in this testing time, the better we're going t꧙o act and react in race weekends.
“I like the atmosphere, there's everything you need to do well. We worked hard, I preferred not to put the soft tyre at the end, it was too๊ cold to improve our lap time. Overall a great start.”
And the special leathers?
“B𓆉eautiful. I want to take a look at some more images because it was really nice.”
Morbidelli's team-mate Fabio di Giannantonio missed the ❀test ꧑due to his recent shoulder surgery.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years a🐭nd has seen Valentino Rossiཧ come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.