MotoGp, Bagnaia: “Assen circuit that I love”. Bezzecchi: “We’ll fight back”

ABSENT — “Family struggle strengthens. No privileges in the box, it’s the system Ducati: a strategy that is paying off”. Those three have won at least one race since the beginning of the season, they are the favorites of this Dutch weekend, they lead the standings and in the end – you bet – they will fight for the title: the MotoGP it’s their thing. Bagnaia And Martin they run with the same bike, one GP23: the first for the official team of Borgo Panigalethe other for the team Pramac. Bezzecchi drives a “red” from last season, but has begun to receive the latest updates and is counting on the complete availability of Gigi Dall’Igna and other engineers. The other week, in Germany, I’m sorry And Jorge they fought until the last corner, touching each other by centimetres: in the end the Spaniard had the upper hand, by just 68 thousandths.

Bezzecchi jokes with Bagnaia: “I can’t wait to have a fight with you on the track”

Isn’t there the risk that sooner or later it will end up with ‘brackets’ among Ducatisti? “I do not believe. We are smart people. And excellent pilots. Same bikes, different riding characteristics: it’s a choice Ducati and it works, it has allowed everyone to progress”. Bezzecchi he jokes, turning to the Piedmontese: “Actually, I can’t wait to get into a fight with you, on the track”. Laughs.

At Assen Pecco exalts himself: “The track I love”

Even the relationships between Bagnaia And Martin they are very good. “We know each other as kids, we raced in the same team with the Mahindra in Moto3: there is mutual esteem and respect”. Speaking of that season, it was 2016 and Jorge he remembers it well. “Pecco entered the garage and said that he would win. He kept his word.” It was the first success in the world championship career of the champion from Chivasso, who had the lay-out of the Cathedral of Speed ​​tattooed on his arm to celebrate it. Here he won back in Moto2 in 2018, and especially last year in MotoGP: fundamental success, because the extraordinary comeback up started from this track Quartararo. “I like the track a lot, then here the Ducati they are really strong as long as they are technical and precise”, he confirms Bagnaia. “The third sector, especially turns 8 and 12, is one of my absolute favourites”. But Assen is also very welcome to the Spanish of Pramac, particularly fit in this period. It’s at Bezzecchi: “Here last year I made my first podium in MotoGP, the track seems designed to enhance my riding style. I have a Ducati from last year, but I don’t think it’s so different from the GP23: the difference is made by the skill of the riders, those two are very strong and I still have a lot to learn”.

Bagnaia: “With the new rules there are too many crashes”

The risk of contacts in the race is inevitable with this new formula wanted by Sleep. “There are too many crashes too, the fault lies in the fact that you start trying to set a good time already in the Friday morning free session”, he explains I’m sorry. “Too close commitments, we talked about it in the safety commission: the idea is to change the program, but we certainly won’t do it during this season”. I’m sorry, Jorge and the Bez. They will certainly be protagonists, from tomorrow morning. And no ‘brackets’: promised.