MotoGP, Teruel GP: Ducati in free fall: what happens in Borgo Panigale?



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What happens in Borgo Panigale?

It seems that suddenly the best bike of the last three seasons has become a supporting actor. By now, seeing a red up front during practice has become a mirage. Factory team drivers often start behind the satellites and sometimes even Avintia team drivers do better than they do.

further the Grands Prix, one after another, do not seem to offer the additional data that one would expect and capable of giving our products an immediate improvement in performance.

Unlike Dovizioso and Petrucci wrap themselves in the spirals of their problems until they almost suffocate. It seems that they have lost the end of the ball that should help them to get out of the maze they are in.

An absurd and unpredictable situation, since, Marc Márquez absent, the favorite of this championship should have been Dovi.

Insurance, the Forlì rider continues to fight for the world championship, but more for the merit of his rivals than for his performances.

The following table summarizes the comparison between the first day of testing at the Aragón GP and this one in Teruel: If last week at the end of the first day Dovizioso had the 13th time, today he has only the 19th with a deterioration of more than two tenths.

Petrucci went from 15th to 17th, but at the very least he shelved his time, while Miller dropped from 14th to 18th, also worsening by two tenths, in line with Bagnaia’s performance who lost one position while doing a little better.

The only one who improved his time was Zarco, less than three tenths, but he lost two places. Rabat has collapsed.

Today they told us that Danilo was held back by a lack of grip in the middle of the corner, while Andrea suffered from various unspecified problems.

Since the beginning of the year, Ducati and its riders have complained about the new Michelins, but this is the 11th Grand Prix and the excuse no longer applies. In the sense: even with a small performance gap by now, it should be out of the tunnel. And yet it is not.

There was a time when Ducati and its pilots lost the train of evolution. Suzuki and KTM have made giant strides forward, Yamaha has maintained their strengths, Honda seems to have found itself after the shock of leaving Marc Márquez.

Alone Ducati seems to have dropped the Ariadne thread indispensable to get out of the labyrinth of doubts. And one wonders, at this point, whether to delve so deeply intoDaedalus Island it was the team, or rather the drivers.



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