The Mooney VR46 Racing Group made its MotoGP debut this 12 months with encouraging outcomes. It noticed Luca Marini place twelfth within the championship and Marco Bezzecchi 14th as the most effective of the rookies, even securing a podium end. By groups, Valentino Rossi’s staff completed eighth – a trigger for satisfaction for director Uccio Salucci.
Salucci advised SPEEDWEEK.com that it was a season above expectations for the Italian staff: ‘If somebody had advised me in February of this 12 months that we might do a season like this, I’d have signed with my blood. I am actually glad. We have labored arduous on all fronts, particularly at house. I am pleased with our folks and our riders. Vale can also be very blissful.’
He then stated: ‘The stability is tremendous constructive: Bez is Rookie of The 12 months, however Maro [Luca Marini] was all the time very quick, particularly within the final races of the season. Bez has additionally had a podium, and we have completed 4th a few occasions. As a staff, we ended up not far behind the Suzuki manufacturing unit staff and forward of Repsol Honda.’
Regardless of the satisfaction with this primary season within the premier class, the Italian harassed that he’s not resting on his laurels, pondering already about what might be improved in 2023: ‘I am actually blissful, however on the similar time I am a man who can by no means get pleasure from a state of affairs like this. Since you all the time need to attempt to preserve working, to enhance and to seek out one thing to be higher subsequent 12 months.’
