The Pertamina VR46 team will have a split garage in terms of bike specification in MotoGP this season.

As part of its new official Ducati satellite team status,168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Fabio di Giannantonio has been upgraded to a factory spec GP25 while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli will stay on the GP2✅4 he raced at Pramac l🌠ast season.

But might familiarity with the GP24, and a seas𒅌on's worth of race data, prove an advantage for Morbidelli this year?

“The GP24 is a great bike,” Morbidelli replied at VR46’s Jakarta tea♌m launch. “It was born great, was unbelievably fast from the first tests in Malaysia and won its first race.

“So I believe a lot𝓰 in the GP24 package. It’s a great machine, one of the greatest packages we’ve seen.”

Morbidelli’s debut Ducati season was rocked by a winter head injury, 𒊎robbing him of pre-season testing, before reaching ninth in the standings.

Meanwhile the other GP24 riders - of Jorge Mart🎀in, Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini - were ranked first, second and fourth in the world championship.

“The dominance the GP24 had last꧋ year was impressive,” Morbiꦆdelli continued.

“There were fou൩r GP24s in the top four quite often, especially when I caught up in the secondꦬ half of the season. So that bike can do amazing things and be very quick on track.

“Let’s see if it’s an advantage or not [to stay on a GP24], I believe that everybody has their own advantages and disadvantages. Let’s see what we can do with our package, which is really g♑ood.”

Gresini’s Aꦫlex Marquez underlined the potential of the GP24 by outpacing the prototype GP25s at last November’s Barcelona test.

W♏atching from the sidelines was di Giannantonio, who withdrew from the final rounds of last season to undergo shoulde෴r surgery.

Only Marc Marquez was able to enjoy regular podiums and race ♛wins on the GP23 last year.

Most others, including Diggia and then team-mate Marco Bezzecchi, battled with a bꦬike des🔯igned for the previous generation of Michelin rear tyre.

The young ✃Italian will now leap two-years꧒ forward as the only rider other than factory stars Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez with a GP25.

“For me it’s a kind of big ♏step coming from the GP23 because it’s two years forward in the development of the bike,” di Giannantonio said.

“It will be🌄 a new challenge for sure, it will be quite different at the beginning because we have to focus a lot on development of the [GP25] and try to understand what works, ꧑what not.

“Anyway, I think thatꦺ the [GP25] bike Ducati is bringing will be a weapon, coming from such a great bike as the GP24. It will be a new challenge for sure, we just have to be ♓focussed and enjoy this kind of responsibility to develop this bike.”

No changes in tyre specification are planned for this season, after the debut of a new front wꦬas postponed.

Most therefore expect the performance⛄ difference between the GP24 and GP25s to be comparable with the GP22 vs GP23s in 2023, when all four riders onꦇ year-old bikes at VR46/Gresini claimed podiums (including four GP wins).

di Giannantonio will debut on the GP25, and first MotoGP laps since last year's Thai Grand Prix, during the official Sepang test fr♍om February 5-7.