The 2023 MotoGP preseason is over.
The 2023 MotoGP preseason is over. Precisely two weeks from now, the primary race of the World Championship will start in Portimão with the playing cards already dealt after the final take a look at session on the Portuguese observe: the Ducati are scary, they took 7 of the highest 8 positions, with the champion Pecco Bagnaia destroying the clock, Quartararo's Yamaha is the closest to it... and Marc Márquez together with his Honda continues to be far behind: he closed the take a look at in 14th place.
If the pre-season exams are to be trusted -the solely attainable reference-, the Ducati shouldn't have an excessive amount of opposition within the first race of the championship, on March 26. They've began the yr as they completed the earlier one: being the quickest bike. This winter, they've monopolized the six days of exams: first in Valencia (Luca Marini), in Sepang (Bezzecchi, Martín and Marini), and now in Portimão, with the 2 days dominated by Bagnaia.
The champion, of the official Ducati, impressed on the final day. He led the agenda and smashed the Algarve observe file - which was his, from pole place in 2021 - by 7 tenths.
Though, to inform the reality, as much as 12 pilots exceeded that reference time. From Bagnaia to the Aprilias of Espargaró (tenth), Oliveira (eleventh) and Viñales (twelfth). Symptomatically, they had been left with out reducing him from the Honda -Joan Mir thirteenth and Marc Márquez, 14th- backwards.
At Honda they trusted that the final two days of testing would serve to investigate new changes and components that may deliver the winged motorbike nearer to its Italian opponents. Marc Márquez was testing "nice issues" on the primary day and on the second, the tires for the race on the twenty sixth, he made just one time assault that provisionally introduced him nearer to ninth place (0.6s behind Bagnaia), however as quickly because the Ducatis placed on the softest compounds, Marc dropped again to 14th place, 8 tenths behind the Italian.
At the least, the Catalan was in a position to get nearer to Bagnaia from someday to the subsequent, from 1s3 (nineteenth on the primary day) to 0s8 (14th), that's, 5 tenths, half a second much less. Though, in comparison with Sepang only a month in the past, the progress shouldn't be seen an excessive amount of: Marc in Malaysia was tenth, 7 tenths behind Luca Marini.
Analyzing his instances in lengthy runs within the final take a look at in Portugal, the 93 shouldn't be to date in tempo with Bagnaia: he rode a run of 11 consecutive laps (a simulation of a Dash race) with a roughly fixed tempo in a low 1m39s, whereas that Bagnaia accomplished two lengthy runs (of 12 laps) with most laps in 1m38s and low 1m39s.
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