With the arrival of four-stroke motorcycles in the queen of speed competition ducati encouraged him to fully immerse himself in the new MotoGP in 2003 and since then they have not ceased to amaze. It was only the sixth Grand Prix in the main Desmosedici GP3 class in Loris Capirossi he drove it to victory in the Gran Premi de Catalunya at Montmeló. And since then they have had 77 victories, turning on circuits like the Red Bull Ring, the track they are visiting this weekend, in their farmhouse.
In Borgo Panigale They had three different seasons after those first steps into the premier class. The head of Casey Stoner who in 2007 gave the first world title for Borgo Panigale in a campaign in which they added 11 wins -10 Stoner and 1 Capirossi-. A second where Andrea Dovizioso is the flagship on the track and the engineer Gigi Dall’Igna in Reparto Corse has recently arrived from the Piaggio Group. In addition to the small personal feeling, they faced the best Marc Márquez. However, they added three drivers’ runners-up and a good handful of more victories. And with this third they consolidated their status as No. 1 MotoGP with Pecco Bagnaia as their benchmark. Since 2020 they haven’t lost the constructors’ title, they’ve taken third on the grid and are going for a second straight drivers’ title and of those 77 total victories, 26 are from 2021 onwards, 27.2% of their history in MotoGP.
A stellar 2023 with seven out of nine
So far in 2023 they have won seven of the nine races -the long, the historically important- with three drivers, Bagnaia, Bezzecchi and Martín, and in total 27 podiums they have climbed 19 times with six different drivers. , 70.3% were Ducatista podiums, including triplets in Argentina, France, Italy and Germany.
After the recession two weeks ago lost hegemony Silverstone in the hands of the determined Aleix Espargaro This weekend they arrived at the Red Bull Ring for the Austrian Grand Prix, a circuit that returned to the calendar after a deep remodeling in 2016, and where they have won the most times: seven, one more than Motegi, Sepang , Qatar and the already visited Mugello.
And its merit is that only nine appointments have been held there between the Austrian GP and the Styrian GP, so they won 77.7% of the races held. The only two losers, Styria’20 and Austria’21, fell on the side of those who aim to become again this 2023 the great ‘outsiders’ as a local brand: KTM. In 2020 he won for opportunistic Miguel Oliveira -after taking advantage of the mistake of Miller and Pol Espargaró- and in 2021 a brave one Brad Binder by sticking the slicks in the rain.
For ducati achieved victory at the Red Bull Ring Andrea Iannone (2016, from pole), which was the first for Ducati since Casey Stoner in Australia’2010, Andrea Dovizioso (2017, 2019 and the first of two appointments in 2020), Jorge Lorenzo (2018), George Martin (in the first of two rounds of 2021, from pole position) and last year pecco bagnaia.
“I am happy to race again in Austria, a track that I really like and where I got a good victory last year. Historically, it is a track that is favorable to the characteristics of our bike, but probably many riders can fight for a good result here this year. Today, our goal is to be consistent and try to always do the best possible. I am confident and looking forward to the weekend”, explained the last winner, who came to the Austrian event with the biggest advantage in the table of the entire campaign: 41 points to Jorge Martín and 47 to Marco Bezzecchi.
Within Red Bull Ring Ducatistas achieved 14 podiums from a total of 27 possible, 51.85%. Last year they had six units in the top-10, four of them in the top-5. Only then the leader of the World Cup Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) stopped the triple in his second
Source: La Verdad
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