The Italian Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia and the Spanish Jorge Martín, on Ducati Desmosedici GP23 paths, should be the benchmarks in the restart of the MotoGP competition with the dispute this weekend of the British Grand Prix in the Silverstone circuit, in which the Spanish Marc Márquez and Joan Mir must be some of the drivers to take into account.
Before returning to competition, the legendary Silverstone circuit, the longest of the season at 5.9 kilometres, will be in the news for various reasons. The first of them is due to the fact that the workshops will be changed, which will move to the area known as ‘The Wing’, which means that the start and finish line will change compared to previous editions of the British race.
In addition, since the English race there has been a change in training approved by the organization of the championship, which has decided leave a single official qualifying session for the two classifications, those known as Q1 and Q2. Thus, the first training sessions of the weekend, on Friday morning, will be free and will not be valid for any classification, with the second training session on Friday, which takes place after noon, which will establish the order for the official qualifications. .
Together with this change and from the Great Britain Grand Prix, the MotoGP tire pressure monitoring system for the ‘sprint’ race and the grand prix, which will entail a series of penalties, initially of time at the end of the race and which, depending on the recidivism, could end in disqualification.
Despite all these changes, the focus will once again be on Ducati riders, with ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia and Jorge Martín in the lead, although without forgetting the Italian Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) or the Frenchman Johann Zarco (Ducati Desmosedici GP23).).
the south african Brad Binder (KTM RC116) will be another rider to watch out foras well as his teammate, the Australian Jack Miller, although the main novelties will come from two other Spanish representatives, Pol Espargaró (Gas Gas RC 16) and Joan Mir (Honda RC 213 V).
Both return to competition after recovering from injuriesAlthough in the case of the first, the natural rider from Granollers, has been inactive since the first Grand Prix of the season, in Portugal, at whose Portimao circuit he suffered a serious fall and will now need the logical process of adaptation to recover the level and the pace of the competition.
For Joan Mir it will be something similar, but in his case to continue with an adaptation process to your new Honda RC 213 V that it is costing him much more than he himself could have imagined.
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Like Mir, his teammate Marc Márquez will once again be another center of attention at Silverstoneboth for his performance and for his sporting future, on everyone’s lips at the possibility of starring in a “change of scenery”.
However, the most important thing will be to see and “calibrate” what the Honda engineers have been capable of in these five weeks of summer break when it comes to evolving a motorcycle that is one of the least competitive of all those that make up the starting lineup of MotoGP in 2023.
It will also be interesting to see the steps taken by the Yamaha and Aprilia factories to equip their pilots, the French Fabio Quartararo and the Italian Franco Morbidelli in the Japanese and the Spanish Aleix Espargaró and Maverick Viñales in the Italian, to approach the best prototypes in the category in this second part of the season, in which all the drivers will have to face a hectic calendar of twelve races in seventeen weekends.
Alex Márquez is another of the pilots who can stand out in this second part of the championship, after a first half in general well above his own expectations at the handlebars of the Ducati Desmosedici GP22 of the Gresini Racing team.
One of the novelties of the race will be the presence once again of the official Honda Superbike rider, the Spanish Iker Lecuona, as a substitute for the still convalescing from his injuries Alex Rins, who continues with his recovery process in Andorra.
2023-08-03 21:46:53
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