Gresini crew chief Frankie Carchedi might not be joining 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez for a move to the factory Ducati team in 2025, but the Englishman hinted that he is expecting great things from 🌳the #93.

Marque♈z secured the official Ducati ride, over eventual world champion Jorge Martin, by being the only GP23 rider capable of challenging the factor꧟y-spec GP24s last year.

🔴That included three grand prix wins, a sprint victory and two pole positions on his way to third in the world championship.

But the Span🔯iard will now face a formidable oꩲpponent in Ducati’s double world champion Francesco Bagnaia, as a team-mate, in 2025.

On a recent issue of the wuqian0821.com MotoGP podcast, Carchedi was 🍰asked what he expects from Marquez at the factory team.

“Yeah... we'll ꦇ💖have a chat at the end of the year!” Carchedi smiled. 

“I don't want to say too much, but I know exactly how I think it will go: Second year on [the Ducati], effectively a two-year upgrade in machinery… The guy got 20 podiums [in 2024] year, so I'll le♚ave that one 𝔍at that!”

For comparison, the three othe🦋r GP23 riders achieved a combined total of just two podiums last season: one each for Marco Bezzecchi and Alex Marquez.

The performance difference between the GP24s of the Lenovo and Pramac teams and the older GP23s at Gresini🐬 and VR46 was a hot topic of debate🌸 throughout last season - and unsurprisingly put to Carchedi in the podcast.

“I was thinking ‘what are you guys going to ask?’ And I thought this one's definitely coming up!” laughed the Englishman, who also guided Joa𝐆n Mir to the MotoGP title at Suzuki in 2020.

“I've had lots of practice on how to answer this and I'll✅ repeat basically what I’ve previously said: The comparison for us was the other GP23s and trying to be the best of those.

“That's what Marc did at Honda, against the other Hondas. You couldn't compare him with the ൩Yamahas, Ducatis or other manufacturers [then]. And it was the sa𝔍me for this year.

“To finish ahead of two [GP24s, Enea Bastianini and Franco Morbidelli] at the﷽ end of the year was quite incredible.

“The Ducati engineers are on such a roll. You think that they can't improve and y꧅et they find a way to improve the bike even further every year.

“All bikes have their advantages and negatives. There were just a couple of areas, let's say, that were tricky for us to c🌳ompete.

“For sure over one lap - but maybe that's more about experience [with the Ducati]. I don't know. We're ta𒀰lking about a rider [Marquez] on the bike for the first time against riders who have had four or five years on the bike.

“And even then, I think we qualified quite comfortably. We had two ꦯpole positions in the year and we actually finished third in the [BMW Award] ‘qualifying championship’, which surprised me becꦇause it didn’t feel like that!

“Motegi, on his own… was also aꦬlmost a pole [until the lap was cancelled]! 

๊“There are differences [between the 23 and 24]. The Ducati engineers are that good that they always make a step. Every year is different. Sometimes it's one-two ten🦋ths, sometimes it's more. It’s luck of the draw what year the difference [between factory and satellite] is.

“Tಞo summarise, maybe Alex is tಞhe best person to ask. Because I think he quite liked the bike [GP24] in Barcelona!”

While Marc and Bagnaia began work on the GP🅘25 prototype at November's Barcelona post-race test, brother and former team-mate Alex was fastest on his GP24 debut.

Carchedi was also a🐷sked for his thoughts on what new champion Martin can do at Aprilia.

“You don't win a world championship for free,” he said. “I think it's great for MotoGP to have a top rider at a dꦛifferent m⭕anufacturer as well, because that's what we all want.

“As much as it's nice for us [at Ducati now], you do want all the manufacturers to be com𒀰petitive with top riders. So I think not just [Martin], but also Enea at KTM is fantastic for the championship. It’ll mix it up a little bit.

“I'm sure he'll be there or thereabouts.”