HRC will copy its test structure from KTM.
According to Gigi Dall’Igna, head of Ducati, if you have the right ideas, the right people and the right organization it is possible to get out of a situation like Honda’s at the moment much faster. The right ideas so far are in the ‘Should’ column; Time will tell about the right people; and in terms of organization, Honda plans to start making strides by turning away from the ‘I know it all’ and copying what works well for the current leaders in MotoGP. This is the case of the test structure that will be put in place when Aleix Espargaró arrives. In the KTM way, Honda will have a team to carry out kilometers, that is, for reliability and substance consumption tests, and another to evaluate pure performance with Aleix, who should participate in some GGPP as Pedrosa and his brother Pol do in the Austrian factory … This is a first step.
Massimo Rivola’s ‘head’ is at stake.
In order to sign Jorge Martín, the general manager of Aprilia Corse had to pick up the phone – a common phrase that the mobile generation will not understand – and request the approval of the president of the Piaggio Group, the industrial macro conglomerate to which Aprilia belongs. I think that the argument that with Martín they are in a position to attack the sky of MotoGP, now in the hands of Ducati, Rivola received the approval. But the unexpected resignation of Maverick Viñales to continue with Aprilia as soon as the season ended, however you look at it, was an unexpected torpedo in the waterline of Rivola’s winning project. With Viñales going to KTM, Aleix Espargaró promising to be a Honda test rider from 2025 and Miguel Oliveira’s future more inside than outside Aprilia, how will they prepare Noale with the bike where Martin needs to beat Bagnaia, Marc Márquez and company next season? Because Jorge will come down to his new garage not to build a motorcycle, but to go directly to the track to challenge his former colleagues in the brand… The challenge given to Aprilia is great.
The secret behind the Ducati/Team Pramac divorce.
It was finally announced that Paolo Campinotti’s Team Pramac will be Yamaha’s satellite team for the next seven years, leaving 20 years of collaboration with Ducati. The Marc Márquez/Jorge Martín crisis destroyed this ‘marriage’. After the last Catalan GP, Ducati decided to transfer Martín to the official team starting in 2025, and give Marc Márquez the status of 100% factory rider within Team Gresini. But for this to succeed, Pramac had to open its hands to, by contract, being the only satellite team with material equivalent to the factory team. But Campinotti put his foot against the wall. Thus, the 2025 strategy made by Ducati will only continue if Márquez leaves Team Gresini to join Pramac, an option that Marc rejected without discussion, forcing Ducati to change the planned strategy with already known consequence. Ironically, in the divorce between Ducati and Pramac, the two official motorcycles will end up where Campinotti never left them. I don’t know if this is a maneuver made by the Italian manager, but what he has achieved, for the good of the championship, is the distribution of assets -read winning drivers- to other brands.
Source: La Verdad
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