The team instructions at Ducati have been a recurring debate which has animated the 2022 season. While the facts, with Enea Bastianini, demonstrated that they were very far from being obvious, the theory of the number, with eight motorcycles on the track, linked to the intoxication of the subject by a Formula 1 which never asked the slightest question about the iron discipline to be imposed in its ranks, convinced certain minds more than the images transcribed through the small skylight. We are in 2023 and the debate between Pecco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini will certainly take another turn, since they are now teammates in red suits. But to put the 2022 file in order, Maverick Viñales brings his last piece.
When we ask Maverick Vinales if he has seen team instructions in the 2022 MotoGP season now filed away in the souvenir aisle, he readily answers yes. However, by being so affirmative, he also proves convincing that he did not detect anything in this regard in Ducati. The Top Gun believes that the Italian had to give everything on the track to fight for the champion title. The pilot Aprilia also remembers overrunsEnea Bastianini while nothing had yet been decided.
« I didn't see any help » comments the official Aprilia on motorcyclesports. « Enea made two or three good passes against Bagnaia. I don't know if there was help or not... What is clear, they have a lot of data. But ultimately, you have to ride, win races and get ahead. When you are fighting for a World Champion title, the pressure is very different. It's not like you come in and have a good race, you can't fail. They had a good championship, of course. Not just Bagnaia, but also the team ».
Maverick Vinales: “we have always tried to give Aleix Espargaró the necessary strength to try to improve and to move him forward"
But then, where did he see the solidarity of the team playing out in this 2022 season. In fact, as close as possible to him… “ As far as we are concerned, we did everything for Aleix Espargaró. In fact, during the qualifications we always tried to give him the necessary strength to try to improve and to push him forward, but it was not a success. At Ducati they were better ».
In 2023, we will see how the atmosphere will evolve at Aprilia, now with three drivers capable of winning races, with an RS-GP that everyone takes seriously today.
