{"id":325649,"date":"2025-12-03T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325649\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:16:06","slug":"too-much-drama-in-gp24-gp25-debate-says-one-ducati-motogp-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325649\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cToo much drama\u201d in GP24\/GP25 debate, says one Ducati MotoGP rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VR46 Ducati MotoGP rider Franco Morbidelli believes there has been \u201ctoo much drama\u201d in the debate between whether or not the GP24 was a better bike than the GP25.<\/p>\n<p>After sweeping 19 of the 20 races run in 2024 with its GP24, Ducati wasn\u2019t able to make a significant step forward with its 2025 package.<\/p>\n<p>In winter testing, it was forced to abandon its full 2025 engine spec and run an updated 2024 version instead.<\/p>\n<p>But the GP25 dominated the season, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a> winning 11 grands prix and 14 sprints on his way to a seventh MotoGP title.<\/p>\n<p>That form was contrasted with just two wins for team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911999\/francesco-bagnaia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pecco Bagnaia<\/a> who, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/995149\/fabio-di-giannantonio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabio Di Giannantonio<\/a>, struggled to be consistent on the GP25.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/935450\/alex-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Marquez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1043650\/fermin-aldeguer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fermin Aldeguer<\/a> scored four wins between them on the 2024-spec package at Gresini, with the former runner-up in the championship.<\/p>\n<p>For the satellite riders not on factory-spec bikes, there has been strong debate about whether or not they would be better off sticking with the GP24 instead of stepping to the GP25 for the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m riding a Ducati. I think it doesn\u2019t really matter,\u201d responded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/889477\/franco-morbidelli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Franco Morbidelli<\/a> to this line of questioning at the end of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDucati is a great package, is a great bike. Also, the guys with the \u201924 have struggled many times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you really want to look at things how they went, everyone struggled: \u201924, \u201925, doesn\u2019t matter, everybody struggles sometimes in some occasions. So, it doesn\u2019t really matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The GP25 only \u2018struggled once\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Morbidelli believes there has been \u201ctoo much drama\u201d over this debate, with the VR46 rider noting that the GP25 only genuinely struggled once in Indonesia, as Marc Marquez remained consistent on the package throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this year, what happened this year, there has been too much drama between the \u201924, \u201925, \u201926, \u201920-whatever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ducati is a great package, it works really well: \u201924, \u201925, \u201923, \u201921 &#8211; it has worked really well since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen the performance of the riders who have tried both of them who have been going back and forth with this spec, because of some doubts, or because of something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, sincerely, if I have to tell you if this package is clearly better than the other, I just can\u2019t tell you.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that both packages are really, really good when they work well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if they don\u2019t work at their top, they struggle, like we\u2019ve seen \u201824s struggling, like we\u2019ve seen \u201825s struggling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I have to analyse clearly, the \u201925 has been struggling a lot less than the \u201924 because we\u2019ve seen Marc P1, P2 basically all year long, and he was on the \u201925.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe struggled much less than everybody else. So, we saw his GP25 just struggling once [in Indonesia].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VR46 Ducati MotoGP rider Franco Morbidelli believes there has been \u201ctoo much drama\u201d in the debate between whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,8456,23688,806,805,803,804,15119,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-325649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ducati-lenovo-team","11":"tag-franco-morbidelli","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-pertamina-enduro-vr46-racing","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}