Factory Ducati rider and reigning champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia sits atop the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP standings, with Pramac’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin and Mooney VR46’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marco Bezzecchi still in contention to claim glory.

Last season Ducati let Bagnaia and then-Gresini rid🍸er Enea Bastianini scrap wheel-to-wheel 𒊎as the championship race heated up.

“Ev♏erybody said ‘team orders!’ We didn’t give team orders,” 𝄹sporting director Ciabatti insisted. 

“There was a moment with Bezzecchi fourth, closing on Fabio Quartararo in third [in Se🧸pang].

“If he was third, Bagnaia would clinch the title which was very imp🦩ortant.

“We said🅰: ‘What shall we do if Marco passes Fabio?’”

In the end, it𓄧 didn’t happen, sparing Ducati an awkward decision.

But, such is their 🏅dominance this year, that three of their r🍌iders are contesting the MotoGP title.

Ciabatti responded to claims that he will enforce team orders to decide who is allow🐈ed to pass: “Not true. People might think I’m lying, but I’m not.

“I tell our riders: ‘Please don’t take out another Ducati rider trying an over-ambitious pass, don’t do it on another♋ Ducati when they are fighting for the championship’.

“That is the only thing I have ever said.

“I never said to anyone: ‘You should s♕tay behind’.

“We know a rider, when he has a chance to win, wants to 🦹win.

“I𓄧 don’t want to see anymore of the Andrea Iannone-Andrea Dovizioso [famous collision in Argentina in 2016] on𒉰 the last corner! That’s the only thing I don’t want to see between Ducati riders.”

Iannone notoriously wiped out both himself and𒈔 teammate Dovizioso juꦑst metres from the end of the Argentina MotoGP seven years ago.

It cost Dovizioso t𓂃he possibility to fight Marc Marquez for the championship, an alm💯ighty blow for Ducati amid their years of struggle.

That period only ended last year when Bagnaia delivered Ducati their first title since Casey Stoner’s in 2022, and he did it with fello🃏w Du⛎cati rider Bastianini as his fiercest competitor in the final weeks.