“You force me to give you new pieces”. Like this Luigi Dall’Igna in Parco Chiuso complimented Enea Bastianini, which saved Ducati’s honor on Sunday in Qatar by leading the ‘old’ GP-21 to success ahead of Brad Binder’s KTM, Pol Espargarò’s Honda and Aleix Espargarò’s Aprilia. Of the five Ducati GP-22s at the start, only two reached the finish line and were also quite late, namely those of Johann Zarco and Luca Marini. Jack Miller had electronics problems, Francesco Bagnaia, on the other hand, in an over-optimistic overtaking attempt on Jorge Martin, ran into a crash that caused both of them and that could also have complicated the Spaniard’s season in light of the pain in his wrist reported following the disastrous accident.
There DucatiHowever, due to a clear technical and commercial strategy, he has a wide range of arrows in his quiver – no house comes close to the 8 Desmosedici on the starting grid – and the one with the number 23 on Sunday in Qatar at Lusail hit the mark, crowning an end a dream week for Enea Bastianini, who is the leader of the World Championship and is aware of being a rider capable of winning at the highest level of speed motorcycling. Francesco Bagnaia asked Ducati to stop changing its set-up after a start of the season between tests and the first race weekend of continuous experiments, a dynamic that made the top rider of the Borgo Panigale manufacturer lose his bearings. Since Sepang Bastianini has not grown to his head when he was the best rider of the Italian company, aware that the factory riders had the normal difficulties encountered when dealing with a new bike.
Bastianini’s goal is obviously to share the garage with Bagnaia in 2023, but he wants to deserve this honor on the track: “I am in Ducati very well. The goal is to become an official driver, if another house comes I don’t close the door in my face, but for now I see the future here. I would like to deserve the works team, but if Martin or Miller are in front, I adapt. I am for the right “ said in an interview granted to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The riders market has yet to get to the heart of it, only Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia have the guaranteed saddle respectively in Honda and Ducati in 2023. Bastianini was a prized piece of the market, now he is even more so. Ducati will have to pamper the Beast enough to repel the assaults of the competitors.
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