Marc Márquez will be on the Gresini team in the 2024 MotoGP season, where he will have a Ducati Desmosedici GP23. The rider’s talent is recognized, being a strong potential candidate for the title… facing four riders who will have the most updated version of the bike, unlike him.
Nothing that bothers the general manager of Ducati Corse, Gigi Dall’Igna, as he assured Motorsport.com: ‘If Marc wins the next championship, it will be because he was the best, and because he deserved it. The equation is very simple. I don’t see how this could harm Ducati’s image. I never thought about whether the rider or the bike counts more. It’s the combination that wins. For me, someone who wins the World Championship with a previous year’s prototype has never been a problem‘.
The experienced engineer cited examples that happened under his management with Marco Simoncelli, Gabor Talmaci, and Héctor Faubel in the MotoGP access categories, and emphasized: ‘My goal is to win, and I have to use all the methods at my disposal to achieve it. Eventually, it may happen that the new prototype does not improve the performance of the previous one. Where is the problem?‘.
