By now everything is ready for MotoGP's return to the track. With the conclusion of the shakedown, which saw the Sepang track warming up with the rookies and test riders in anticipation of the return of the big guys scheduled from the 5th to the 7th of this month, one feeling is vibrating in the air, that the 2025 World Championship will be an exclusive head-to-head between the newly formed Ducati Lenovo team pair Bagnaia - Marquez.
A likely two-way battle that will see the others only as bit players capable of getting on the podium, but nothing more.
Whether this will actually be the case we will only find out in March when things kick off in the championship, for the moment we can only rely on the guarded and generic statements of the protagonists and their boss Gigi Dall'Igna who, during an interview with TG2 Motori stopped to reflect on the complexity of the motorcycles that compete in the series, increasingly bare-bones prototypes as well as full of cutting-edge technology like only Formula 1.
A comparison, that with the top category of motor racing, that the engineer from Veneto wanted to embrace only in part, pointing out on the contrary the differences between the two worlds.
"Single-seaters can download data in real time, while we store everything and only when the bike is stopped can we get information.
When the bike is in the pit, we proceed to analyze its reaction in terms of reliability and performance, and then go to identify possible solutions to implement engine response or set-ups.
Telemetry is undoubtedly as important as it is in the Circus, but with us, the opinion of the rider still matters a great deal.
His feedback is and always will be crucial," he remarked, "His figure is the pivot around which everything revolves, as this is an individual sport, so the rider is the one who brings home the result, but in the same way the team must know how to work well to make changes and evolutions that allow those on the bike to do well."
As mentioned, today's MotoGPs are a kind of technological "workshop," but not everyone is ready for this approach. Pecco himself confessed to preferring analog.
"For sure electronics gives a lot and it is good that it is there, but personally I prefer to limit its use as much as possible and ride freely," were his words.
More open to its use, Marc pointed out an important aspect, however. "The presence of electronics means that those who are riding are dependent on it, however, we must grasp the positive element, which is that of greater safety.
Equally it should be stressed that technology by itself is not enough, you always have to be able to rely on someone who is able to make it work.
Let's say that what we see in our category then benefits the bikes for sale. Everything, including aerodynamics you find on the road bikes," the Spaniard concluded.
