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Marquez "will raise the level" of Ducati's MotoGP competitiveness – Tardozzi

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On Tuesday, eight-time world champion Marquez will make his first MotoGP appearance on a bike other than a Honda for the first time in the post-season Valencia test. Marquez will ride the 2023-spec Ducati that won the world championship this year in Gresini colours next season, after electing to leave Honda with one season left on his contract following a difficult campaign. How Marquez will assimilate into Ducati has been a topic of discussion since the announcement that he will leave Honda came last month. Tardozzi, who believes Ducati's approach to satellite teams has helped raise Ducati's level in MotoGP , says Marquez will take this even further in 2024. "Raising again the level of the competitivity," Tardozzi told Motorsport.com when asked what he thinks Marquez will do for Ducati. "He will raise the level because tomorrow Marc will be very, very, very fast. I almost bet in him [finishing] in first position at the en...

New Jersey gambling revenue up nearly 14%, but most casinos still trail pre-pandemic levels

New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that take sports bets and the online partners of both won over $457 million in June ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- New Jersey's casinos , horse tracks that take Sports bets, and the online partners of both those types of gambling won more than $457 million in June, an increase of nearly 14% from a year earlier. But the key metric for Atlantic City's nine casinos — the amount of money won from in-person gamblers — continued to lag at seven of them, according to figures released Friday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. The amount of money the nine casinos collectively won from in-person gamblers in June narrowly surpassed the pre-pandemic level, at $241 million. But that was largely due to strong performances from the only two casinos whose in-person gambling revenue was higher last month than it was in June 2019: Hard Rock and Ocean. Those are the city's two newest casinos, having opened five years ago and steadily seizing marke...