VR46 rider Bezzecchi was an outdoor contender for the title throughout his breakthrough 2023 marketing campaign, the place he ultimately completed third within the standings to champion Francesco Bagnaia and second-placed Jorge Martin after scoring victories in Argentina, France and India.
However the Italian’s outcomes have nosedived since he switched to final yr’s GP23 bike, with the opening six rounds of the season yielding solely a single podium end, a third-place end at Jerez.
This has allowed Martin and new Gresini rider Marc Marquez to emerge because the frontrunners to accomplice Francesco Bagnaia on the manufacturing facility Ducati group in 2025, when Enea Bastianini’s two-year contract with the marque runs out.
Whereas Bezzecchi admits his type in 2023 would have made him a worthy contender for the seat at present occupied by Bastianini, he conceded that Martin and Marquez are merely doing a greater job than him in the meanwhile and therefore are being favoured by Ducati.
“I am not upset as a result of in the meanwhile they deserve this extra, so it is regular,” he stated at Barcelona.
“After all, I confirmed good issues final yr so I feel I additionally deserve a manufacturing facility seat. However in the meanwhile it is regular that they have a look at them, so I do not blame anybody.
“For the second my goal is simply to return again very robust. With this, if I obtain this then I’ll have extra chance to go searching to attempt to have a manufacturing facility seat which is the goal of each MotoGP rider.
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“Martin, to begin with, but in addition Marc and Bastianini, they deserve this extra in the meanwhile.”
Bezzecchi careworn that whereas he does dream of getting a manufacturing facility contract, Ducati’s edge over the competitors means he has to contemplate whether or not it makes extra sense to proceed on a satellite tv for pc bike with the Italian marque.
“After all, I’ve the ambition to be in a manufacturing facility group, to turn into a manufacturing facility rider however I additionally need to be aggressive to have good races,” he stated.
“So if I’ve to go away my group proper now to go in a much less aggressive bundle I do not know, as a result of Ducati fortuitously could be very aggressive anyway if it is not a manufacturing facility bike.
“I need to see what chance I’ll have, I must give it some thought. We’ll see.”
Bezzecchi sits a distant tenth within the championship after final weekend’s Catalan GP, having accrued solely 42 factors from the opening six race weekends.
At this stage in 2023, he was the closest rival to eventual champion Bagnaia within the championship, with a tally of 110 factors in comparison with 131 for his extra skilled countryman.
Whereas the stoop in type may at the least partly be defined by the soar Ducati has made with its up to date MotoGP contender raced by the likes of Bagnaia and Martin, Bezzecchi has additionally scored 20 fewer factors than team-mate Fabio di Giannantonio up to now in 2024, suggesting that his lack of outcomes are all the way down to his personal troubles to a terrific diploma.
Talking about his issues, the 25-year-old revealed a key space the place he has been lagging behind in 2024, as he reiterated that he’s nonetheless struggling to adapt to the GP23.
“Diggia is excellent on releasing the brake, which is the half the place I am struggling probably the most sadly,” he defined.
“I attempted many many occasions to launch the brake as he did, but in addition as Marc and all of the GP23 riders do many occasions.
“However after I do that I all the time have loads of understeer and the bike would not flip so effectively, so I hold pulling on the handlebar to attempt to make the bike flip and I destroy the entrance tyre.
“We’ve to discover a strategy to make the bike flip higher and attempt to keep away from my strategy to pressure the bike to show.”
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