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Gigi Dall'Igna, the daddy of the Desmosedici could only have been pleased after the hat trick (with Morbidelli at the foot of the podium) of the Buriram GP. With the 10th place of the convalescent Di Ginnantonio and the 13th of rookie Aldeguer, it was a triumphant Grand Prix, although perhaps Gigi would have preferred to see Bagnaia on the second step.
"The first race is always the most complicated. Even if you come from a formidable season, you never actually know what your level is compared to the others," he told Sky TV, "You always come in with a bit of tension and so it's nice then to bring it home so well. Marquez rode a perfect weekend, but Pecco also did well. The MotoGP World Championship is not the 100 meters, the important thing is to finish well at the end of the race and the end of the championship to be able to fight for it. I think we learned last year that results are more important than wins, so they both did a very smart race and I hope it will lead them both to fight for the race at the end of the championship."
The Grand Prix had only one moment of pathos: when Marc passed his brother Alex to manage the temperature of his front tire. A mistake on the team's part?
"The pressure we set was definitely correct, because it was more or less what we had yesterday in the Sprint," underlined Dall'Igna, "The fact is that today the temperature rose a little less than we would have expected, even compared to the margin we normally keep to make the race. We have software that is supposed to allow the riders not to do the math during the race, so we suggest to the rider the behavior to have in the race, also to manage the possibilities that can emerge during a complicated race."
Marquez however flew under the radar today.
"I believe that Marc already has the bike in hand and already knows what to do," acknowledged the engineer from the Veneto, "Let's say that here he definitely had some margin compared to the others, and I have to say that doing the whole race at one meter from the rider in front, in these conditions, also from the physical point of view, is extremely demanding, because the bike temperatures went really very high. This is a sign that Marc is also very good from a physical point of view. For various reasons, I also think Pecco has room for improvement and I expect him to bring it out during the next races. Marc has definitely had easier tests, Pecco's have been more troubled instead, and that may justify him being a bit behind in his race preparation."
While there was much discussion last year about the difference between the GP23 and the GP24, this year the fact that Ducati has decided to start with an evolved GP24 is holding sway. A GP24.9, they say.
"There's obviously a difference in some details between the factory and satellite bikes," Gigi acknowledged, "We definitely have some other developments planned, but we'll try them at the Jerez test, so the next four races we'll do them more or less with this configuration, with only a few evolutionary details," he concluded.
