Ducati gave updated engine to three of its MotoGP riders at Thai GP

Marc Marquez, Francesco Bagnaia and Fabio Di Giannantonio all raced with a unique engine in comparison with Ducati’s different MotoGP riders on the 2025 season-opener in Thailand, Motorsport.com has discovered. 

The three riders used a extra up-to-date mannequin, whereas Alex Marquez, Franco Morbidelli and Fermin Aldeguer raced with the 2024 specification final weekend. 

This comes after Ducati initially announced that all six of its Desmosedicis would use last year’s engine for the 2025 season, following suggestions from its riders after testing. 

However the Italian marque has now gone towards its announcement, with two various kinds of engines being utilized by the reigning producers’ champion.

“Certainly, they’re two totally different specs,” a Ducati spokesperson confirmed to Motorsport.com. “The one for Marc, Pecco and Diggia contains some small modifications in comparison with the one for Alex, Franco and Fermin.”

“Within the extra fashionable specification, we now have taken into consideration Marc and Pecco’s feedback,” added the spokesperson, who emphasised that the variations between the 2 fashions “are small”.

Ducati dominated the 2024 marketing campaign, profitable 19 of 20 grands prix, and it carried that kind into the 2025 Thailand Grand Prix.

Marc Marquez dominated on his manufacturing unit Ducati debut profitable the dash race and grand prix, whereas youthful brother Alex of Gresini and Marc’s team-mate Bagnaia joined him on the rostrum in each contests.

Morbidelli made it an all-Ducati prime 4 in the primary race, whereas di Giannantonio was down in tenth with Aldeguer three spots decrease.

Because it was the primary grand prix weekend of the season, the producers which can be required to freeze their engines needed to homologate what they may use in Buriram.

This included Ducati, Aprilia and KTM, as Honda and Yamaha had been excluded attributable to concessions that favour these on the again permitting them to develop the ability unit all through the marketing campaign. 

Within the homologation, Aprilia and KTM submitted an engine to the technical workers of the Worldwide Street Racing Groups’ Affiliation (IRTA), which is able to function a pattern for the related checks throughout 2025. Ducati, for its half, submitted each engines that had been finally utilized by its riders.