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Alex Marquez was quickest within the post-season MotoGP take a look at at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The Gresini Racing workforce acquired its fingers on the Ducati GP24 that Jorge Martin took to the Championship this 12 months, and Marquez rapidly tailored. He examined briefly with the GP23 he had raced this season, and rapidly understood that the GP24 had a a lot simpler time extracting the utmost efficiency from this season’s Michelin tires. “This bike was constructed round these tires,” he mentioned on the finish of the day.
Fabio Quartararo was second after testing a brand new chassis and new engine. Quartararo says the brand new chassis turned in higher on the brakes, however the bike now must drive out of corners higher. “The enhancements is not going to occur in a single day,” he mentioned, however was happy by the military of engineers from Japan and Italy within the manufacturing facility storage. The manufacturing facility workforce alone had six bikes to strive between Quartararo and Rins, and the Pramac Racing workforce had two bikes every for Jack Miller and Miguel Oliveira.
Two-time World Champion Francesco Bagnaia was third and mentioned the brand new Ducati GP25 was higher in quick corners and was stronger within the engine division, however it was missing in braking in comparison with the GP24 he raced to second within the Championship with 11 wins in 2024. Nevertheless, he was happy, saying that the bike was superb for this stage of its improvement.
Marc Marquez spent little or no time on a Ducati GP24 and as an alternative jumped straight into the event means of the manufacturing facility GP25 he’ll race subsequent season. He known as the dealing with of the 2025 mannequin completely different however not higher or worse than the 2023 machine, however mentioned the engine was a lot stronger.
2024 MotoGP World Champion Jorge Martin was not in a position to speak to the media after the take a look at as a result of he’s nonetheless contracted to Ducati. Martin took a improvement Aprilia RS-GP to eleventh after a small crash in the midst of the day.
Pedro Acosta mentioned that KTM tried a number of completely different aerodynamic gadgets, on the lookout for a approach ahead. Word that this configuration doesn’t use the ducts on the decrease entrance fairing that the RC16 has used prior to now. Acosta mentioned his ultimate configuration made the bike calmer, as a result of in 2024 it could get “loopy” and shake the handlebars. The one rookie on the grid in 2024, Acosta mentioned he utterly understood why all three of the 2025 rookies crashed inside a number of laps, and mentioned it was regular as they switched from the Pirellis in Moto2 to the Michelins in MotoGP.
Ultimate – Session for BCN MotoGP FP1
