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MotoGP, VIDEO - Dall'Igna: "No. 1 on the Aprilia? It's a nice game, Ducati won the world championship."

"I love Aprilia, it's a brand that taught me so much and I still have many friends there. For 2025 we have prepared so much material. We will choose to use only what we are sure of because all you need is a moment and you go the wrong way. There will be complicated situations that we will have to handle."

MotoGP, VIDEO - Dall'Igna: "No. 1 on the Aprilia? It's a nice game, Ducati won the world championship."
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Along with motorcycles, the mountains are another great passion of Gigi Dall'Igna, and starting the season in Madonna di Campiglio could not make him any happier. At dinner he looks after Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez, his two riders, while on the ski slopes he tries to beat them, waiting to start getting serious in a few days' time at Sepang for the first tests of the year.

Meanwhile, the new liveries have been unveiled, on Pecco's Desmosedici there is no longer the #1, while Marc's #93 has appeared on the other. Two new features.
"I am living this moment very serenely - assures Gigi - The #1 is just a number, the important thing is to win the world championship and we did it last year, albeit with a rider who is no longer with us. Marc is one of the most important riders in the history of motorcycle racing and I'm glad he decided to join us."

You will see 'your' number 1 on the Aprilia, a manufacturer you have long been linked to. Is it a twist of fate?
"Definitely it's a nice game, I love a brand that taught me so much and I still have many friends there. Now clearly I work for Ducati and I have to work for the good of this company, so I have moved and will move to succeed."

Yesterday you said you will not overhaul the Desmosedici completely, but that in Sepang you will have new engine, chassis, fairing, lowering device, aerodynamics...
"We are preparing because we don't know how our rivals are moving, so we have prepared really a lot of material that we think will be good. Deciding whether to use it or not is another matter. We will choose to use only what we are sure of because all you need is a moment and you go the wrong way. Sepang is a very complete track, but also very particular because there is not so much grip and we will find particular conditions. It is a circuit that can be representative, but not completely. It will be important to be very careful in material selection and also make choices based on what our rivals will do."

Marquez said that Bagnaia is the most experienced rider in the team and will be the one who will have the final say on the development of the new bike. Will this really be the case?
"Marc is not a rider like everyone else, but neither is Pecco. As we said, it's a Dream Team and that means it's made up of special riders, each in his own way. We will try to do the best for both of them."

We have a seen Bagnaia and Marquez very close these days. Did you expect everything to go so smoothly?
"This is the easy part of the job, we are in a wonderful place having fun (laughs). We will have to evaluate things when they actually get serious. I am convinced that the intelligence of both of us works in our favor, but there will be complicated situations that we will have to handle."

Recently, in the French magazine GP Racing, you stated that Martin's non-reconfirmation was a money issue. What did you mean by that?
"The economic problem was to keep all three riders. The goal we had was to do that, but obviously it was not possible and we had to go for one of the two."

You say that when you overachieve you risk becoming disliked, are you ready to take that risk again?
"I hope not to be disliked, because I suffer from that, but we have to do the best for Ducati and we want to keep winning."

 

Translated by Julian Thomas

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