After missing the preseason due to a complicated injury, Franco Morbidelli finally made his debut for Prima Pramac at the Qatar MotoGP Grand Prix – also having his first contact with the new Ducati Desmosedici GP24.
He didn’t score points in any race, finishing 18th in the main race. Still, the Italian expressed satisfaction with this inaugural round, stating to the press:
– I’m very tired, but so grateful that everything went smoothly this weekend and everything went the right way. I feel good with the bike and I started to riding a bike at some point. Of course I was improving, improving and catching up on the top guys, but that’s not important: the important thing is that everything is okay with me, everything is okay with my head, and now is time to keep working and keep chasing the top guys.
Asked if nothing went wrong in Losail, Morbidelli confirmed and said that he wants to keep the same way: ‘Exactly. That’s how it should keep on being until we start doing the results that the bike wants to do’.