MotoGP rider Marco Bezzecchi has denied that he’s the strongest man on a grid that’s lacking world champion Marc Marquez.
Bezzecchi has received three of the final 4 dash races and was clearly the quickest man on the final two conferences in Indonesia and Australia. He has solely didn’t win the respective grands prix as a result of his incident with Marquez at Mandalika and the ensuing double lengthy lap penalty at Phillip Island.
However the Italian was eager to minimize prompts that he was the “strongest rider”, suggesting as an alternative that he nonetheless had work to do earlier than reaching his peak.
The Aprilia man was responding to the query within the Thursday press convention forward of this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix, which an injured Marquez will miss following the Indonesian conflict.
“I don’t actually know methods to reply… it’s a really sophisticated query,” stated a poker-faced Bezzecchi. “As you already know, in sport… you may make the distinction if you end up continually at your high [performing at your best]. I’m making an attempt to do that however I don’t assume that I’m at that time proper now.”
The 26-year-old was equally reluctant to say Aprilia had the strongest bike on the grid, although impartial rider Raul Fernandez strengthened the case for that along with his victory in Australia.
Bezzecchi and Fernandez shared the spoils for Aprilia in Australia
Picture by: Martin Hold / AFP by way of Getty Photographs
However Bezzecchi, who moved into third place within the championship following the Phillip Island race, did admit that this weekend’s race at Sepang would supply measure of Aprilia’s progress. That’s as a result of the pre-season check on the identical venue was the place the Rimini native, who moved from VR46 Ducati for this season, first bought to know the bike forward of what was a gradual begin to 2025.
“Truly, I’m tremendous joyful to be right here as a result of it’s the one observe the place I’ve a little bit of a reference from the testing, and I’ve to say that we have been struggling a bit [then]. So, I’m very curious to see how the primary response with the bike might be and the primary sensation on this wonderful observe.
“In fact we made many adjustments in the course of the season to date, so will probably be essential to attempt to see how we’ve got improved.
“Aprilia has accomplished a tremendous job. We’ve been working tremendous arduous for the reason that starting and so they have additionally made many enhancements on the bike. It’s tough to [name] just one, however possibly from my private viewpoint the one which helped me probably the most was the steadiness in braking.”
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