Davide Tardozzi: “I will not change my approach” for Pecco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez

“I have no doubt that it will 🎉be very ea𓆏sy to work with them”

Marc Marquez, Davide Tardozzi
Marc Marquez, Davide Tardozzi

Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi insists it will be ‘very easy’ to manage MotoGP champions 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia and new signing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez in the same garage this season.

Although Ducati had to navigate✨ an all-Desmosedici Bagnaia vs Pramac's Jorge Martin title battle for the past two seasons, 2025 looks set to be the first time two Official team riders have gone head-to-head for the championship.

Many are predicting fireworks, sooner or later.

But former racer Tardozzi - whose heart-on-a-sleeve reaction to the highs and lows of racing are frequently caught on camera in the Ducati garage - is adamant champions 🐬are easier to work with than newcomers.

“I will not change my approach because in the en𓆏d it’s much more easy to work with champions than with young ‘kids’,” Tardozzi said at the Ducati team ꦓlaunch.

“I a🌼lready know very well Pecco, while I am starting to🍒 know Marc. I think it will be very easy. And what supports my opinion is the respect that I see between them.

“They speak a lot. They are working together to try to improve the bike and then in the end it will be the racetrack that will say who is 💜in front and who's in the back.

“But thi꧋s is something that whoever is behind will take as a stimulation to be better for the following race. So I have no doubt that it will be very easy to work with them.”

The Italian, 65, pledged: “As we did in the past, we will support both riders. We have the pow🍎er to do it. We will support those two champions - because we have two champions, not only two riders♒ - and we are proud to have them.

“We will support them in the best way, and if one or the oth♎er will take a different way [with set-up or parts], we will try to support him in the best way.”

Tardozzi won the first ever WorldSBK round at Donington Park in 1988 and later oversaw eight Ducati Superbike riders' titles before𝓰 joining the factory in MotoGP.

For many year🌄s, Tardozzi faced Marquez as a rival, the Repsol H♈onda rider thwarting Ducati’s title hopes with Andrea Dovizioso in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Nonetheless, there were some thrilling victories by Do൲vi against Marquez, such as a last-turn showdown at Austria in 2017, with Tardozzi at the centre of the post-race celebrations.

“We already spoke with Marc about that!” Tardozzi said. “I was so happy whe♔n we beat him because I knew that we were beating the best rider of the moment.

“So when we fought with hꦐim, I was super happy and the team was super happy because beatinꦉg Marc on those times was for us something incredible.”

Bagnaia handed Tardozzi his first MotoGP titles as a team manager in 2022 and 2023 ဣbefore losing out to Martin at the final🍃 round of last year.

Overlooked by Ducati in favour of Marquez, Martin and the number 1 plate are movi💜ng to Aprilia this season.

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