Marc Marquez has been riding in MotoGP since 2013Throughout this time, he has been able to experiment with different types of machines, at Honda and Ducati, and has witnessed the sport's evolution from the inside. In recent years, aerodynamics has become as important a science as electronics was at the beginning of the last decade, and it has had a crucial impact on the development of motorcycles. The Ducati factory rider now regrets the prominence this aspect of development has taken, knowing that the 2027 motorcycles will certainly have no less of it; something he also lamented.
Marc Marquez spoke about this in an interview given to Bike World. "It was in 2014, 2015 and 2016, without the aerodynamics, that I had the most fun riding these motorcycles." he asserted. Indeed, at the time, wings were rare (Ducati had already tried them a little earlier), or even non-existent. Aesthetically, it was also something else entirely.
He's not a big fan of these new machines, but that doesn't stop him from winning with them. « Sure, they're very pleasant to drive, but it's more like being a robot.. Aerodynamic constraints must be respected and the motorcycle's behavior should not be forced. If you force it, you go against the aerodynamics and you become even slower. » he added.
Marc Marquez is nostalgic for the MotoGP of yesteryear.
According to him, extreme wings are not unrelated to the increase in crashes that we are seeing. « On the 2014, 2015 and 2016 models, without aerodynamics, a fast pilot could overpilotThe front end was slipping, you just had to know how to deal with it. Now it's unrecoverable, because the current problem is that with the aerodynamic downforce we have, When the front end is lost, you press on it so hard that it can't come back, and that's when you fall. » he concluded.
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