Luca Marini is in great difficulty in this first part of the 2022 MotoGP season. Sports director Alessio Salucci points the finger at the aerodynamics of the Ducati GP22.
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Since Friday's free practice, Luca Marini had sounded the alarm in the Mooney VR46 box: the gap with the big names of MotoGP and its brand comrades remains significant. Despite the possibility of making a few steps from one session to the next, the gap with the top of the ranking remains unchanged. 18th time in FP3 with a gap of more than 8 tenths on the best lap of his companion Pecco Bagnaia, and on the starting grid he will occupy 19th place, while his teammate Marco Bezzecchi was unleashed in Q2 and will start eighth…
Something is wrong with the Luca Marini-Ducati GP22 package. After solving some problems inside the pits in Qatar, he had to face the difficulties of his youth on the new Desmosedici factory bike. In the first five races of this MotoGP World Championship, 11th place in Argentina is his best result, but the top 10 is still far away. The sports director Alessio salucci tries to analyze the situation of the Tavullia rider, struggling in the straight, where Ducati should make the difference with its powerful V4. “ In the straight line we lose three tenths, perhaps the new fairing is too small for the one who is tall. Coming out of the corner the bike rears up, you have to work on the electronics and you lose power. It's a dog chasing its tail…Why does this happen? You should ask Dall'Igna "Says Salucci.
Luca Marini is far from the MotoGP summit
Luca marini attempts to go into the details of this difficult moment which seems to have no way out. “ It seems to me that in the last races we are not improving. During the weekend, the feeling with the bike grows, but the gap with the first is still the same. Today was really a disaster because I couldn't go fast even in qualifying, at least at the start of the season I was fast in the laps. Now I'm struggling there too, you can't understand why, no one can tell me exactly how to improve and get back to interesting times. But we continue to research. »
Paradoxically, the brother of Valentino Rossi loses at the end of the straight, the movements of the opponents and other Ducati riders are studied with the images of track coach Roberto Locatelli. “ Since Austin the problem is always the same, but we can't find a solution: I accelerate very slowly out of the corner, I roll a lot and then at the end of the straight I lose three or four tenths and it shouldn't be like this. The engine pushes, the bike moves forward, but you will have to try to counter the wheelie and in the fast turns, which are generally my strong point. I lose a lot of speed and I can't get the bike to turn in the middle of the turn. Tomorrow we will try to pull hard and do overtaking » concludes Luca Marini, who are " I'm going to try to have fun and then we'll see ».
MotoGP Spain J2: qualifying
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