Don’t get anyone confused, Ducati continues to play with marked cards. The news is spreading that in the so-called Asian tour, where 5 GGPP will run in the next 6 weeks -Indonesia, Japan, Australia, Thailand and Malaysia- “things can change”, referring to the fact that the domain Ducati’s the position in the championship may not be so harsh. But I’m afraid maybe not. Pedro Acosta, who may be a post-adolescent, but knows more about racing than the ‘red rats’, explains why now in short and below. It’s not for nothing that he’s been in this world since almost before he started riding… “The rest of us are always a day behind Ducati,” explained the man from Murcia, referring to the advantage of having eight bikes on the track . At circuits where the factories have less data than usual, the ability to collect information on their eight motorcycles ridden by eight different riders on Friday afternoon has an extra letter Tomorrow, Friday, there is a possibility that the result in end of the day will be surprising, but I bet double against single that on Saturday everything will return to ‘normal’… Unless the weather intervenes, of course.
KTM continues its search in the North. Thinking about the new direction given by KTM to its MotoGP project, the simile of a boat without a compass automatically comes to mind, that is, without an instrument that allows it to maintain its course. Because the goal is clear, because it is nothing but to win the MotoGP World Championship. But the bow of that imaginary ship had changed course three times, and what seemed like a straight direction to the goal had turned into a zigzag. The first deviation came from the decision on the main floor of the Mattighofen factory to speed things up by cloning the Ducati method. To do this, they used their checkbook and included important people from Borgo Panigale Reparto Corse in the MotoGP project. But not only did the strategy not work, ‘Italianization’ failed. Those who were hired have been liquidated and those who were separated have returned to the MotoGP project. They will have to look back on what they have done and find a new direction. And in races, shortcuts rarely work… even if you have a wallet full of bills.
Mandalika, the test of nine for Yamaha and Honda. After acceptable results in the last Emilia-Romagna GP for Honda and the good performance of the lone Yamaha in the hands of Fabio Quartararo, this weekend’s Indonesian GP is important for the two Japanese factories. Those directly involved look forward to tomorrow’s training sessions with high expectations, only us spectators are curious. Could Misano be green shoots or a mirage resulting in running two GGPPs and after a full day of testing? I think it’s safe to say that we all want it to be first. And for Japanese manufacturers it is a necessary injection of morale – and even dignity, I would say – seven days after the World Cup ended there, in Japan.
Source: La Verdad
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