The Ducati factory, dominant in 2022 in MotoGP, is promised a great fratricidal duel between its two riders Pecco Bagnaia, reigning World Champion, and Enea Bastianiani, third in the same championship with four victories including two acquired on the wire at the expense of the first quoted. For a few you would think it was the presentation of a boxing match when the fighters weighed in. Exactly…
On the snowy slopes of Our Lady of Campiglio everything went well in a good spirit during the presentation Ducati. Almost too good in fact, and that is perhaps all the better because the two Italians who will live together in the red box until 2024 had thought of a mischief to disrupt the ceremony.
Pecco Bagnaia: “ I would have liked to see the faces of Ciabatti and Domenicali«
It is Pecco Bagnaia himself who reveals it in the columns of GP One. By Enea Bastianini, he had decided to make fun of this constant quest of their national media to want to pit them against each other.
We read thus: “ Enea and I wanted to play a prank on the presentation stage: fight like boxers at the weigh-in ". And Enea Bastianini confirms: “ the idea was in the pipeline, but then it was rejected ". To Pecco’s great regret: “ I would have liked to see the faces of Ciabatti and Domenicali. Tardozzi? It's Davide 'Balboa', he would have participated » he assures, smiling. And say that Carmelo Ezpeleta said that he did not want to see in his MotoGP example exacerbated rivalries between the riders, taking as an example not to follow the weigh-in of the boxers…
