Appointments are starting to be made for the presentations of the MotoGP troops for the 2020 season. Suzuki was the first to announce February 6, the day before the return to the Sepang track. At Honda, we have promised the ceremony for the WSBK with the new and highly anticipated CBR RR-R for January 21 in Japan. Now, it is Ducati which is scheduling a meeting for January 23 in its stronghold of Bologna.
It's official: the team Ducati MotoGP will present itself on January 23 in Bologna. The preliminaries of a season which promises to be crucial. It has in fact been three years now that the Red Army has been content to play the role of a Marc Márquez which makes Honda happy. Being runner-up is not dishonorable, but when it becomes habitual, it is like an admission of powerlessness.
Last year, the Ducati fairing revealed a “Mission Winnow” sponsor from a tobacco company which then went up in smoke. What will be the registration this time for the machines of the VAG automobile group which directs its credits towards electric propulsion? We will see, as we discover this GP20 which would be equipped with surprises that could make the difference. It will be possible to follow the event in streaming on the official Ducati team channels.
Andrea Dovizioso will spearhead a campaign that rumor assumes will be the last of his career. He will be flanked by a Danilo Petrucci who already has the pressure on his shoulders. Only one victory and two podiums in 2019 do not give him the legitimacy necessary to keep his handlebars lasting.
Especially since we will have entered a period where the transfer market will be agitated in view of the 2021 and 2022 deadlines. The men of Ducati will logically try to remove Marc Márquez to Honda, but it is towards Maverick Vinales et fabio quartararo that they will concentrate all their hopes. So Jack Miller et Pecco Bagnaia warned, especially since Johann zarco will be in ambush with a GP19 from Avintia: we will have to put on the gas in 2020!
