AUDIO Pirro at MotoG-Podcast: “I hated Dall’Igna, but he was right. And Rossi …”

He is the extra weapon of Ducati, the man who every year grinds thousands of kilometers often in perfect solitude to find that little bit more that can allow Francesco Bagnaia, Jack Miller, Johann Zarco and the other riders of the red to try to fight for the victory. And he is so integrated into this project that Michele Pirro at a certain point in the chat on MotoG-Podcast, the Gazzetta talk conducted by Paolo Ianieri and Zoran Filicic, comes up with a nice “we are a motorcycle”.

Yes, because being part of Ducati means something more than racing or representing a normal team. “Unfortunately, I always feel like a pilot, but to go to a certain limit to try certain things and go to the limit, if you don’t have the attitude of a pilot it becomes impossible. I still feel like a pilot, fast, someone who can still give a lot. And at Mugello up to two laps from the end I was fighting with Vinales for 9th place ”. In recent years, Pirro has become a staple for Gigi Dall’Igna, the General Manager of Ducati Corse. “At the beginning it was tough with Gigi, for years I asked him to let me run, at one point I ‘hated’ him, but it must be said that he was right. I had the hope of doing it when Stoner arrived, so that I could lighten my role and instead he had come, in quotes, for his ego. Those pilots there are not inclined to make themselves available for others, and to do my role you have to be willing to put aside personal hatred ”. A chat that enters into what is the Ducati of today and tomorrow (“I’d like to see Valentino Rossi try the Ducati, you know how many times I said to him, ‘if I drove the one now instead of the one of your time …’) and with an eye on next week’s GP in Austria. “How does it end? First Ducati, second Ducati, third Ducati. And I also put Ducati fourth, with Jorge Martin – laughs Pirro -. But I’m relatively interested in how it ends in Austria, what we want is to be world champions at the end of the Valencia race ”.