The first round of MotoGP’s bold new era was filled with controversies and dramas aplenty, as Ducati kicked off its title defence in perfect style. Here are the top 10 things we learned from the 2023 PortugueseGP ⬇️
now. While the move drew much ire from the partisan Portuguese crowd and the keyboard special forces on social media, Marquez’s crash was a mistake.
Happy at some of the tweaks made from Friday to Saturday that ultimately helped him to pole, Marquez proved with his Oliveira incident that has ruled him out of the Argentina GP that his unearthly talents will only go so far while the bike is as uncompetitive as it is.Average qualifying masked Aprilia's potential - it again appears best-placed to challenge DucatiAprilia’s breakthrough 2022 campaign was one of the most interesting storylines of the year.
Pre-season wasn’t the easiest for Yamaha and it only made a breakthrough with its 2023 bike on the final day in Portugal. That did not carry over into the grand prix, however, as after Friday Quartararo felt he was “on the limit” – and that was only good enough for sixth. With Franco Morbidelli 14th and last of the classified runners in the grand prix, Yamaha looks no further forward than it did at the end of 2022, and if anything has taken a step back.Miller briefly led the sprint as the Australian made a bright start to life at KTMNobody had much positive to say about KTM when winter testing concluded, as problems with drive grip seemed to persist for the Austrian manufacturer.
“So, our plan coming into this grand prix was just normal race weekend stuff; let’s play with settings, get the bike in a decent position and work on myself riding the bike. I think we’ve been able to do that. We won’t know till we get there, but I really do think that the strategy we’ve got now and the electronics we’ve got in place and the way we’ve got the chassis working, we can make it work in the coming places.
Even so, it was nice to see riders jumping off the wagon ferrying them around the Algarve track on Sunday mornings to fire t-shirts into the crowd. The hero walk in the paddock was packed out with fans waiting for pictures and autographs, and the riders all duly obliged.
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