MotoGP, Ducati does not yet have a favorite if we listen to Uccio Salucci: “at Mugello we will have an updated technical package”

The Ducati version of the VR46 team in MotoGP is undoubtedly having its best season since its creation, to the point of confirming itself as a candidate for the title with its spearhead Marco Bezzecchi. An outcome? This is a poor understanding of Valentino Rossi's men who see the period more as a stage before the next one. The ambition is to climb higher in the hierarchy and to do this, team manager Uccio Salucci is laying the groundwork by walking on Pramac's toes after showing that he could do as well as Gresini last year. The academy's appetite is insatiable, which will not fail to raise awareness about the relationship between Pecco Bagnaia and Marco Bezzecchi...

Public chat GP One, Uccio Salucci entry announcement the color for a next Italian Grand Prix where the notion of national honor will be exacerbated with as one of the major players the team of Valentino Rossi : " Gigi Dall'Igna always gives us something, and at Mugello we will have an updated technical package ". This should appeal Pecco Bagnaia, but at Ducati, we have always made meritocracy a concrete notion. And the dynamics are so good within this VR46 that one wonders where it will all end...

In any case, the Doctor's right arm and lifelong accomplice has no intention of stopping there: " we are not a flash in the pan but an important reality » assures the Italian. “ We have a technical package that works very well. We have the bikes from last year that are super developed and our riders really like them. We demonstrate that a satellite team, after 5 Grand Prix, can fight for the championship ».

The VR46 rival of the official Ducati team for the title? “ We'll see what happens, but we're going to be tough and we'll sell our skin dearly »

The kind of remark which has already given rise to interpretations “ out of context » annoying a reigning World Champion, but for once, the position ofUccio Salucci does not suffer from any ambiguity: “ by the end of the year, the officials will grow up and we won't. We'll have to see how far they can go. It seems to me that everything in MotoGP is now at the extreme, so you can make some developments during the year but not that much. I don't think we can improve by half a second per lap, or even by a tenth or a tenth and a half, This is what we will have to compensate for, and we will find a way to do it ».

Bezzecchi will therefore play the title against bagnaia. Ducati is warned… “ We'll see what happens, but we're going to be tough and we'll sell our skin dearly ". Furthermore, Uccio plays his own competition within the clan Ducati, with the intention of changing the situation: “ I have already spoken to Dall'Igna several times and told him that I would like Marco Bezzecchi remains in VR46 with a factory bike and a direct contract with Ducati ". A scheme previously reserved for Pramac.

So everything is said with Uccio Salucci and we cannot say at home Ducati that we didn't know. It remains to be seen what consequences this great ambition will have in the relations between the academy's classmates who are Bezzecchi et bagnaia. For the moment, it remains good-natured… “ They are raising the bar more and more and that is the strength of the Academy. Always training together is a constant challenge, at the moment I am enjoying them. Bagnaia and Bezzecchi represent the values ​​of sport ". May it last and hope that Bezzecchi do not one day slow down or bagnaia at one point favored for noble security reasons.