With just a few weeks remaining before the start of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship, this week’s Buriram test is critical for many factories, including Ducati, to choose its specifi🌱cation for the upcoming season.

At last week’s test in Sepang, Ducati and its factory riders – 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez – were undecided on the specification they should choos𝔉e. A full GP25, full GP24, and a hybrid between the two bikes ಌwere all possibilities.

Two factors were important: firstly, the strength of the GP24, which won all but four Grand Prix in 2024; and secondly the two-year homologation for this year’s engine as a result of the development freeze that will be implemented for 2026, making the Bologna brand relatively keen to avoid unnecessary risks (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:as Marc Marquez put it after Sepang) in making its decision on the 2025 bike.

With the test in Thailand being the final one before the season begins in Buriram in three weeks’ time, it is the final chance for Ducati to make iꦿts decision.

But, instead of continuing back-to-back testing of the GP25 components and the GP24 components in Buriram, Ducati appears to have reverted fully to the GP⭕24, as pointed out by Jack Appleyard on X (formerly Twitter) who notes that neither the new engine, nor the new chassis or fairing, are being used today in Buriram.

Ducati boss Davide Tardozzi suggested they will take the 2024 engine into the ♐season.

In the afternoon session on day one in Thailand, Bagnaia rode with the new fa✤iring.

Launch problems

It’s not only Ducati’s apparent total reversion to the GP24 which is🍒 curious about its opening day of the two-day Buriram test, but also the practice starts of its factory riders.

Neither Francesco Bagnaia nor Marc Marquez are seemingly able to get consistently go✤od st♑arts on the factory Desmosedici at the moment.

“We were watching Bagnaia and Marquez’s practice 🦋starts,” said MotoGP.com’s Louis Sudda𒐪by said.

“Bagnaia’s firstꦕ left a big bla🧔ck line on the straight!

“The re༒st of the starts, they struggled to keep the front wheel down.”

Jack Appleyard, MotoGP.com pit lane reporter, added: “A couple of guys on the pitwall that I was speaking to said that Marquez, in particular, they don’t think they’ve 💎seen him do a good start, at all, in preseason testing!

“They w🧜ere saying they were flabbergasted how, every practice start that🐷 Marquez has done, he doesn’t seem to be dialled in.

“To me, you assume Ducati are searching fo⭕r꧂ extra performance in the GP25 and, at the moment, haven’t got the launch controls fully dialled in.

“Bagnaia 🔴was spinning the rear wheel, Marquez was spinning the rear wheel. They just co♔uld not get it sorted!”

Outside of the factory team, there were problems getting o🍃ff the line, too, for the Ducati riders, most notably for rookie Fermin Aldeguer, who almost hit his Gresini teammate Alex Marquez as they both pulled away; the rookie spinning the rear wheel and turning left as he tried to launch his GP24.