Ai Ogura ‘needs challenging weekend’ in Argentina after star MotoGP debut

Ogu꧅ra isn’t a fan of Argentina track butไ thinks that is a good thing

Ai Ogura, Trackhouse Racing, 2025 Argentine MotoGP
Ai Ogura, Trackhouse Racing, 2025 Argentine MotoGP
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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trackhouse MotoGP rookie Ai Ogura admits this weekend’s Argentine Grand Prix is “not one of my favourites” but reckons he 🐲“needs” a “challenging weeke🅠nd”.

The reigning Moto2 champion stunned in his debut at the season-opening Thai GP two we❀eks ago, as he took his satellite Aprilia to fourth and fifth in both races.

Coming to the Argentina round as the leading Aprilia in the standings, Ogura is expected to have another strong weekend 🤡at a track the Italian manufacturer has gone well at in recent years.

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Ogura has ju💦st one podium🐎 to his credit at Termas de Rio Hondo from Moto2 in 2022 and doesn’t count the track as one of his strongest.

With no prior testing at the Argentine venue unlike at Buriram, Ogura is aware that he may slide down the order this weekend - but doesn’t 🌸see this as a bad thing.

“I was happy about my result, but the team was really happy about the whole weekend,” he told MotoGP’s Gear Up show on Thursday.

“The team atmosph꧒ere is ꦬreally nice now and everybody is really motivated.

“It’s not one of my𝐆 favourite circuits. As Davide [Brivio] says, maybe there are good weekends and maybe there are bad weekends, but as a rookie I’m ready to take everything.

“But we’ll see how we start on Friday and my targ💎et is to always give my maximum. So, s♒ame target for this weekend.

“For sure before Thai GP I had two days of testing i🐓n Buriram circuit.

“So, I think this time things are a bit different compared to official test in Malaysia or 🍸the GP weekend in Thailand.

“So, it will be a challenging weekend but that’s really nice and maybe that’s what I n💙eed now. I’m ready to have fun here and we’ll see what happens.”

Though anticipating a harde🃏r weekend, Ogura added that the flowing nature of the Rio Hondo track will be better-suite♔d to him than Buriram was.

“I watched the race, where I could improve, where I was good, wheꦯre I was bad. Nothing special,” he noted.

“As I said after the race, 13 laps behind Pecco [Bagnaia] is something really qualit🐻y 🃏for me and I could see the difference between the top riders and me now.

“Luckily, this type o♍f circuit is not really stop-and-go corners, so I hope I can be competitive this weekend.”

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