Mattia Pasini is a rider, currently without a motorbike; Livio Suppo is a team manager, currently without a team. Both free from any involvement they gave us their point of view on the MotoGP line-ups who is about to leave. Simple questions, straight answers: riders, manufacturers, teams for each a positive and negative comment in order to enhance the possibilities and limits of each protagonist. Let’s start with Ducati, with its World Champion bike and rider, who will have to contend with Aprilia, Yamaha, Honda and KTM/GASGAS.
NUMBER ONE
It has been a long time since the reigning MotoGP champion put the number 1! It was time. some text, in Ducati they are condemned to win: the Lenovo factory team not only has two very strong riders (Pecco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini, with number 23) but also the infernal general manager Gigi Dall’Igna (in the center), who turned the Desmosedici inside out like a sock making it, in just a few years , from Cinderella of the World Championship to a bike to chase. It is the most advanced in terms of innovations for which others, especially the Japanese, can do nothing but try to ban them first… and then copy them. From the side wings we arrived at the hulls with the step, the “spoon”, the diffusers that increase the ground effect…
– THE DESMOSEDICI
Pro
Suppo: excellent base, not distorted and already ready
Pasini: it’s the bike of dreams
Against
Suppo: when you are so dominant, you risk becoming obnoxious
Pasini: complicated to fix, you need a good team
– FRENCH BAGNAIA
Lenovo official team
Italian, 26 years old
Pro
Suppo: it’s the strongest
Pasini: prickly calm
Against
Suppo: He doesn’t look like a super hero
Pasini: I swear, I can’t find any
– ENEA BASTIANINI
Lenovo official team
Italian, 25 years old
Pro
Suppo: the talent
Pasini: pure talent
Against
Suppo: the management of the locker room
Pasini: I’m afraid he will drive ignorantly about Pecco
-GEORGE MARTIN
Team Prima Pramac
Spanish, 25 years old
Pro
Suppo: killer look
Pasini: explosive speed
Against
Suppo: it is not constant
Pasini: too explosive
-JOAN ZARCO
Team Prima Pramac
French, 32 years old
Pro
Suppo: the talent has it
Pasini: plays the piano well
Against
Suppo: it is unfinished
Pasini: neither meat nor fish
– LUCA MARINI
Team Mooney VR46
Italian, 25 years old
Pro
Suppo: it’s a diesel, slowly arriving
Pasini: pure intelligence
Against
Suppo: brother of a phenomenon
Pasini: he takes himself too seriously
– MARCO BEZZECCHI
Team Mooney VR46
Italian, 24 years old
Pro
Suppo: new man, nice, light-hearted
Pasini: the one with the greatest margins for growth
Against
Suppo: so much pressure to manage
Pasini: too instinctive
– ALEX MARQUEZ
Team Gresini
Spanish, 26 years old
Pro
Suppo: see Luca Marini
Pasini: gorgeous style
Against
Suppo: see Luca Marini
Pasini: the surname
– FABIO DI GIANNANTONIO
Team Gresini
Italian, 24 years old
Pro
Suppo: Inherits Mir’s Chief Engineer
Pasini: he has a good manager
Against
Suppo: in ’22 he was the worst Ducati fan
Pasini: when he’s going fast he doesn’t know why. When it goes slow… fine
