MotoGP: Enea Basitianini has taken out the British Grand Prix ahead Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia.
Ducati, Aprilia, KTM, Yamaha and Honda – the MotoGP manufacturers that make up the 2024 grid, meaning the world championship is a fight between five … right?Ducati’s rate of progress this year has been so significant that last year’s GP23, used by Francesco Bagnaia to win his second world title in succession, is in a second-tier class of its own one season later. Ducati has won nine of 10 Grands Prix this year, but not one of them by a rider on the 2023 version of its bike.
Ten rounds into 2024, only Maverick Vinales for Aprilia in Texas has prevented a Ducati clean sweep. Since the Spaniard’s round three win in Austin, Ducati has locked out all three podium places for seven straight races, a GP24 winning all of them between Bagnaia, Martin and Bagnaia’s factory teammate Enea Bastianini, who took his first victory of the season at the British Grand Prix.
The average advantage of the best-placed GP24 at each race over the GP23 is six seconds; the average gap over the best non-Ducati is over seven seconds, a number brought down because of what’s increasingly looking like an anomalous Aprilia win for Vinales at the Americas GP.Vinales winning for Aprilia in Texas in round three is all that stands between Ducati and a clean sweep of 2024.
“But as we showed today, if we work in a good way … we can be on a good level to fight with them. But always on the limit. At VR46, Bezzecchi has one third place to his credit, but has largely been shown the way by Di Giannantonio,On the GP24s between Ducati’s factory team and the factory-supported Pramac Racing, Martin, Bagnaia, Bastianini have shared nine Grand Prix wins between them; Morbidelli, meanwhile, is 180 points and 11 places behind championship-leading teammate Martin, and hasn’t finished better than fifth in a Grand Prix, which he managed in round nine in Germany.
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