He is not coming to the party.
The MotoGP test day in Valencia was the first time Marc Márquez rode Gresini’s Ducati MotoGP bike. This way, he can go into the winter break knowing a little more about what to expect from the new bike he will be riding in 2024.
The Spaniard explained as quoted by Motosan.es, the first impressions about the Desmosedici GP23: ‘The feeling of the front part is that when I start going straight I can’t be aggressive. If I am aggressive, I lose the front wheel. And then the bike starts to be a bit unstable, especially in the first corner. I have to be slower. But then the way I enter seems like it’s not going to work, because the bike is small. But the confidence is there, I still don’t know when I will lose the front part. Especially if you are very fast you can’t overload. If you overload, with the front part you have to stop with your arms before you go. If you go off, you feel a lot of weight on the back and the front is a bit slow with the throttle‘.
On the other hand, Márquez liked the sensations he had with the throttle: ‘In turn three and nine, the throttle is a very good throttle, with a very good feeling, and it’s easy to accelerate, and it’s very comfortable‘.
Márquez also stated: ‘You have to wait a bit for, upright, to accelerate, when accelerating more aggressively. When accelerating I was expecting 40 percent of the speed. To release the throttle I open 30 to 40 percent of the box and try to keep turning and feel like I’m going left. I’m going to use the throttle well and I’m going to take a bit off, I’m going to take, take, take, take, and I felt like I wasn’t using the rear part much. I was using it, but not much‘.
