Qatar MotoGP: Ducati dismiss idea of using team orders ‘especially if a rider is faster’

Team orders are yet to b🍎e used by Ducati so far this season, although the Qatar MotoGP produced one of the first situations where it appeared as though that was the case.
A mapping 8 message wa🐟s sent to Fabio Di Giannantonio, which in the past has been used by the factory team to tell Jorge Lorenzo not to attack Andrea Dovizioso, in 201𒐪7.
- Di Giannantonio: “It’s just my second year, I thiཧnk I’m doing everything on time
- Bagnaiaဣ: “Jorge꧑ will have to attack, we are in the best position”
But the meaning was different when Gresini sent that to Di Giannantonio’s dash, leaving Ciabatti ♍sur🍬prised.
“Actually I didn’t know and I don’t know how it came out,” said the Italian when speaking to MotoGP.com. “Anyway, we always said that we never want a rider with a chance to win to renounce winning, especiallyᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ if he’s faster. Fabio was faster than everybod🦄y else.”
Ciabatti also spoke about the title fight from Jorge Martin’s perspective, after the Pramac rider suffered a shoc༺k result on Sunday.
After winning the sprint and looking like a favourite to repeat that in the main race, Mꦿartin never got anywhere close to the front, instead dropping down to tenth come the end of the race.
Ciabatti added: “It was an incredible weekend of racing. On Saturday Jorge ⭕🀅did a fantastic race and Pecco was struggling because he could not find the same pace as Friday and Saturday morning, but today he was able to pull away.
“Emotional in a way because Di Giann🐭antonio is in a strange situation at the moment and his maiden win in this manner was well deserved.
“Pecco second and Mari🐼ni third; another three Italians on the podium [together] happened some time ago꧟.
“It was a shame for Jorge because he had some trouble and could not do the race he🅠 was expecting to do.
“Now we go to Valencia knowing it will be a Ducati1-2-3 in the c𒁃hampionship becau♓se Marco is third.”