Launch season has officially started, and Neil, Adam, and David sat down after the Ducati launch to chew over what we learned from both the Gresini Ducati launch and the factory Lenovo Ducati launch. We talk Ducati's new, more powerful GP24, why they spend so much money on the launch, what we think of Pecco Bagnaia's chance of defending the title, whether Enea Bastianini will be in the factory team next year, and what we thought of Ducati's new Desmo 450MX motocross bike.

Neil and David were at the Gresini launch, and we discuss what we found out there, and what Marc Marquez said about his future and the coming season. We also have interviews with Ducati Corse Technical Director Davide Barana, on aerodynamics and losing engineers to other factories, and we talk to Frankie Carchedi about his first experience of working with Marc Marquez, and what to expect from Marquez once the season starts.

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