Ever in MotoGP two Italian bikes on the grid found themselves in a position to dominate the championship when they arrived at their home Grand Prix. Ducati leads the constructors ’championship with a 54 -point advantage against Yamaha, followed by the individual effort of defending champion Fabio Quartararo. What is even more surprising is that Aprilia Racing leads the team classification with a six point advantage over Suzuki Ecstar and in the constructors classification they are third, 57 points behind their compatriots and only three points in second place. of Yamaha when they started in 2022 as the ‘Cinderella’ of the championship.
This weekend Ducati is putting nine bikes on the track including the wild card for its tester Michele Pirro; Aprilia will have a triple representation as Lorenzo Savadori will also compete as a guest and he will be the first to test the new machine this Friday at FP1 before it is debuted by Aleix Espargaró in the afternoon. There will be 12 Italian bikes for a grid of 26 riders and two worlds facing each other to win on Sunday. Between the two they share five of the seven wins of the year.
There were four Ducati wins at Mugello for Casey Stoner (2009), Andrea Dovizioso (2017), Jorge Lorenzo (2018) and Danilo Petrucci. Aprilia’s best result at home coincided with the 500cc season with Jeremy McWilliams, third in 2000.
Last year, Aleix Espargaró started to show the potential of the RS-GP when he started fourth on the grid after going through Q1 and finished seventh in the race which has already been shown despite an endless straight 1,141 meters where the engine is all and in favor of Ducati Fabio Quartararo was able to win from pole position despite his 13 km/h top speed deficit.
In Termas de Río, Hondo Aleix Espargaró can almost tear stickers from Jorge Martín’s Ducati straight when he wants. Here they release the news.
“We have a couple of things for Mugello, a new engine and quite a few aerodynamic elements. The bike looks promising and I hope it gives us tenths to fight for the top positions,” Aleix Espargaró defended on Thursday. And he is very optimistic: “The Aprilia engine is fast, good and we’ll see if it enough to follow the Ducati or overtake them. Compared to Yamaha we have an advantage and compared to Ducati we still have to improve a little. We It remains to be seen if the improvements will be worth the best. “
“Honestly, top speed is not the most important, but of course it’s better to have than not, the proof is that Fabio won and got the pole with the slowest bike and this year the start is very important because if you have a bad initially impossible to reach Ducati “
“We also have good traction, good acceleration and Mugello is the most hard track in the world, very technical, not everything is just top speed”, said Aleix
After Mugello collapsed due to the 2020 calendar pandemic and in 2021 the Italian GP was held behind closed doors, Ducati will greet its fans in a grandstand with an exclusive sector with numbered seats at the Materassi Grandstand. Aprilia Racing, which still don’t seem to believe in their current status as favorites, are letting their team in on their own devices and they’re not setting up any grandstand for Noale’s fans.
Source: La Verdad
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