The important thing homologation resolution dealing with MotoGP producers this winter considerations the aerodynamic package deal at the beginning of the season, as engine designs are already frozen, excluding Yamaha.
For the aero physique space, just one additional replace might be allowed throughout the season, rising the strain to make the proper selections throughout the restricted pre-season testing interval.
With testing days separated by simply 5 days between Sepang and Buriram, reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez defined how he makes use of totally different sections of the Malaysian circuit to simulate nook sequences at different tracks on the calendar.
The Ducati manufacturing facility rider returned to MotoGP after shoulder surgical procedure in October final 12 months, main the timesheets on the primary day and ending the take a look at in fourth place total.
Marquez’s finest lap of the week was 1 minute 56.789 seconds, set on the ultimate morning, and he was fifth in sector one, which incorporates the braking zone at Flip 1, eighth in flowing sector two, fourth in sector three, and quickest in sector 4, which consists largely of the lengthy straight and last hairpin.
Marc Marquez testing new and outdated aerodynamic elements, 2026 Sepang MotoGP take a look at (Gold & Goose).
Requested whether or not testing at simply two circuits was sufficient to decide on an aerodynamic package deal, Marquez replied: “Sure.
“No, however I can’t assist it! That’s why I’ve to watch out.
“This racecourse has several types of corners, so you need to think about you’re on one other circuit.
“In several elements of the observe, we are able to think about the corners to be roughly just like Qatar or Jerez. This provides us a future imaginative and prescient of how every aerodynamic package deal will carry out over the course of twenty-two races.”
Marquez seems to be in favor of maintaining no less than a part of the 2025 aero package deal by the top of the Sepang take a look at, however “we nonetheless have to determine it out in Thailand”.
The Buriram examination might be held from February twenty first to twenty second. Official aero approval for every rider should happen on the eve of the Thailand MotoGP weekend a couple of days later.
