This weekend the Valencia Solidarity Grand Prix will be held in Barcelona, where the championship will close the curtain this season due to what happened in the Valencian Community.
Manuel Pecino is taking into account various factors for the races of the coming days, as they will be tense and exciting, with an astonishing equality between Jorge Martín and Pecco Bagnaia.
“He has clearly said to us Spaniards: 'In Barcelona it is time to race in line with Pecco',” he emphasised the words of Jorge Martín.
“Afterwards we will have to see when he is at his side, but because he had always said until now 'I am doing my own race', now he says no, that he is going to race as is logical.”
A championship so tight that it comes down to the last race: “Imagine, the championship organiser doesn’t care at all if there are 21 races and the guy finishes the 18th as world champion.
The organiser is only interested in what is happening this year, for example,” explained Manuel Pecino in relation to everything that MotoGP generates.
“Ducati will have the two best brakers in the championship, Pecco and Marc Marquez,” Pecino mentioned this important nuance.
“Dall'Igna has bet on not being overtaken by anyone when braking. He doesn't do anything without a reason.
If he has made a bike that is for braking, it is because he knows that when he accelerates, no one will overtake him either,” he said about the Italian engineer.
“The psychological blow that Martín suffered when Ducati first told him: 'you are the chosen one'. And 7 days later you told him no,” Manuel Pecino recapitulated regarding Ducati's decision to put a rider on Bagnaia's teammate's bike.
“Psychologically that was a kick, but not in the shin, but somewhere else,” he said.
“The countdown week has begun. Can you imagine how nervous Jorge Martín must be?” he stressed on this issue, as Jorge leads the championship with a 24-point advantage over his rival Pecco Bagnaia.
The Barcelona track is particularly favourable to the Italian: “Montmeló is a circuit that Pecco likes and he goes fast,” added Pecino.
“The Grand Prix will be called the Solidarity Grand Prix, precisely because of solidarity with Valencia for all the disaster that has happened, so all the money raised will go there,” he recalled the reason for this Grand Prix, which in addition to closing the 2024 season is totally charitable.
“We have to break a lance in favor of Dorna, because this time no one pays the entire cost, but Dorna itself covers it all,” he emphasized this good deed.
