Despite staying with Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team riding a Ducati, Marco Bezzecchi will have a different version of the bike – the Desmosedici GP23, while last year he rode the GP22. Thus, he will need to do some adaptions.
The Italian said that there aren’t significant changes, but he needs to adapt his riding to the bike: ‘The bike is a bit different, of course. It’s nothing crazy compared to my last year’s bike. But when you get used to ride the bike in a certain way, then it’s always difficult to change even if the change is very small. In Valencia I felt some positives, but also some points I need to improve – especially on my riding because the bike needed a different manouver from me’.
Bezzecchi is now looking forward to the Sepang tests, hoping to have positive feelings on the bike: ‘I can’t wait to go to Malaysia because it’s another track, it’s a bit different, it’s a track that I really like and normally I really enjoy riding there. So I want to see how I feel with the new bike and try to go away from there with positive feelings. And I can’t wait to ride the bike’.