On Friday at the circuit of Mugellowhen Sunday is run the Brembo Motorcycle Grand Prix of Italyyou live a little suspended, with that sense of waiting for those who know that for the biggest emotions you will have to wait about 48 hours, but at the same time the awareness that a lot is played on this free practice day.
Have theopportunity to enter the paddock – The area reserved next to the pits where the hospitality of the stables and the housing tracks of pilots and families are located, off limits to the public – Guests of the Ducati Lenovo Team It is a privilege that allows you to live the emotions of the Day Before of an event expected for a whole year by those who, like the Bolognese team, play at home alongside the champions of the two wheels and teams.
Everything is expired in a very precise way. It starts the day before, the Thursdaywhen the pilots, in the case of Ducati Marc Marquez and Francesco Pecco Bagnaia, arrive in the mobile village Composed of gigantic structures that come to life in a very short time and which are just as quickly after the end of the Grand Prix are dismantled and loaded on trucks that will lead them to the next destination, where everything will start again.
“Almost always in the afternoon they are engaged in the pre -race press conference, followed by various promotional events of the weekend race, which can also take place outside the paddock, in the neighboring territory”, says theOperations Manager Del Ducati Lenovo Team, Paola Braiato.
Commitments of public relations that usually end up in a couple of hours and which are followed by private meetings between the pilots and the respective team composed of different professionalism, who have the task of preparing them physically and psychologically for the Sunday challenge and to the previous steps. Meanwhile mechanical and engineers led by the General Manager of Ducati Corse Luigi Dall’Agna They are at work for the latest changes and the assembly of motorcycles for the free free free. A usually armored moment, open in this case to the press in the way completely exceptional.
The evening arrives and it’s time to Dinner prepared by chef Emanuele Bertolasolight and often composed of chicken Or other Healthy proteins and carbohydrates accompanied by a small amount of vegetables. Then everyone to sleep early to load the batteries in view of the first day of true sports commitment.
Friday Arriving at the paddock in the first part of the morning he was welcomed by rumble of motorcycles of the lower series already engaged in the former free practice. At 10.45 it is the turn of the MotoGP, which takes to the track under the eyes of Many fans tough on the hills around the circuitequipped with smartphones and very long eye, necessary not to lose the moment when your idol passes.
Lucky ones have access to the Service Road of the circuit, an area very close to the track where not even the torrid heat of a Florentine June manages to dampen the emotion of See the bikes darting a few meters away. Immortulating the salient moments with the mobile phone is very difficult because when you think that the bike for which you cheer is sufficiently away to make a decent video or a photo that you refer even a minimal part of the pathos is already late, and on your screen you just have the empty asphalt.
Better this is perhaps the emotions, which are only at the beginning, they must be experienced.
At the end of the first free practice to an external eye everything seems perfect but so it is not and therefore You go back to the pitswhere the pilots, each with their own team of engineers and mechanics, analyzes what went on the track and what not. The weather is very little: at 15.00 other free practice are scheduled which will determine the exit methods of the following day.
«This moment is very reconciled – he explains Yuri de Cassan, Operational Marketing Manager Del Ducati Lenovo Team – When a motorcycle falls back to the pits first they disassemble saddle and tires and then a visual check list is done to make sure there is no obvious damage. Although they seem indestructible after the session are subject to mechanical stress and all the components must be looked at thoroughly ».
We then move on toAnalysis of any critical issues found by the pilot on the tracksuch as the bike that slips into a certain curve, which are crossed with the data collected by the approximately 50 sensors on each bike. Thanks to the Lenovo technology, technological partner of Ducati since 2018, during each weekend of the race, Ducati Corse collects 100GB of data from the eight Ducati Desmosici GP that run on the trackwhich are analyzed on site but also in the Ducati Lenovo Remote Garage, a station located in Borgo Panigale, in the Ducati headquarters, where a team of engineers receives data in real time from the box, performs complex analyzes and collaborates with the circuit team to optimize the configuration of the motorcycles before they return to the track.
In no time they pass two hours and it is already time to new free practicewhich conclude the day of the pilots, expected at a weekend marked by very specific moments: Saturday qualifying at 10.50 (divided into Q1 and Q2 based on the trend of those of Friday) and Sprint Race at 15.00; Sunday race.
Two high voltage days that Marc Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia live together with friends and relatives. “It is very important for the pilots to be surrounded by a group of trusted people – explains Paola Braiato – in Europe thanks to reduced distances this is easier, while for great prizes very far away where nobody can follow the risk is that they suffer a little solitude”.
Fortunately there is the Great family of their teamwho lives almost in symbiosis 11 months a year: “The seasons are ever longer, they start in January and end up in November, and among us there is inevitably a micro cosmos made of sincere friendships and affections, where obviously there is no shortage of quarrels”, he jokes Brasiato, aware that the strength of the group always fight that of the individual.
The team is all What matters, in life as on the track. Now just chat, however, it is late. Everyone to sleep that tomorrow we return by motorbike.
Source: Vanity Fair
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