Franco Morbidelli will begin the MotoGP season at a disadvantage compared to his competitors. Due to the crash during training in Portimão in January, he missed the entire preseason, so it will be in the first Grand Prix races that he will have to get to know the Ducati Desmosedici GP24 and deepen his relationship with the Prima Pramac team.
The Italian noted that it will be essential to have the appropriate approach, not focusing on the top positions but rather on recovering what needs to be catched up:
– It will be important to have the right approach and the right approach is to don’t look too much at what the top guys are doing and how big maybe the gap is going to be. Because I know that I have some ground to catch up. So for sure to catch it up in a race is a tricky thing, but that’s what we’ll try to do and that’s what we have to do, and that’s what we’ll try to do in the best way.
For the moment, Morbidelli emphasized he has no plans or expectations about how long that catch up process will take: ‘Starting from the point that nothing is impossible, I’m not making any plans, any clear expectation on when I’m going to catch up completely, or when I’m going to catch up enough to fight for the positions I want fight for. So I’m not planning any of this, I’m just planning the next step’.