Aprilia's MotoGP entrant this season is, well, a rocketship. With Marco Bezzecchi behind the bars, you might as well be trying to catch smoke with your bare hands. It's just not doable. That is, unless you're the wunderkind that is Ducati's Marc Marquez, who, despite being on a worse motorcycle, is still at the front of the pack.
That sorta happens when you're a 9-time world champion. Even when you're presented with something trash, you still make it onto the podium.
But Ducati is getting real about its apparent deficit this season, and saying things likely other teams wouldn't say about their own machines. Chief among them, it's not as good as they wanted it to be, and more importantly, they can't only rely on Marc Marquez being Marc Marquez, i.e., a superhuman speed machine. And that's honestly refreshing.
