Strong Friday at Red Bull Ring for Marc Marquez on GP23, but can he challenge the GP24s?
The competitive gap between the GP23 and GP24 Ducati MotoGP bikes has become one of the big talking points following a British Grand Prix two weeks ago in which the 2024 machine held a clear advantage over its predecessor.
While the difference in engines between the GP24 and GP23 won’t be huge, the factory ride height device of the former seems to help in this area. At the end of Friday’s running, Bagnaia has a clear advantage in terms of raw speed. While 0.350s covering the top four isn’t much - 0.281s of that gap belongs in Bagnaia’s back pocket. Winning the Austrian GP in the last two years, it’s no surprise he has come out of the blocks swinging on Friday in the 2024 edition.
Morbidelli’s best on a 10-lap old tyre was 1m30.078s with an average of 1m30.073s. Team-mate Martin did most of his work on Friday on the soft rubber and put in an impressive turn on it. Across a grand prix distance of 28 laps for the Austrian GP, Bagnaia is currently on pace to win on Sunday by 5.824s over the next-best GP24 - which, in this sample, is Morbidelli. That isn’t beyond the realms of possibility, either, as Bagnaia beat KTM’s Brad Binder by 5.191s in last year’s Austrian GP.
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