Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali has been grilled about his infamous insistence that he wouldn’t sign 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez.

While Marquez was still tied to his big-money Honda deal, but was crashing frequently and struggling badly, the Ducati boss was first asked about signing him.

“It's not the right thing for us. We have a group of extraordinary riders that we have rais🐷ed,” Domenicali told Sky in June 2023.

Weeks later Marquez was signed up to the Gresini satellite team and, a year later, Ducatꦏi allowed Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi to walk away due to their desire to move the eight-time champion to their factory team.

Domenicali has revisited his major U-turn.

“If we now h𝓡ave Marc with us, it’s because we 🙈made a choice that was carefully addressed,” Domenicali told .

“We did it, 🌺also thinking about the overall performance we could achieve.

“Last year, his performance was a greatꦏ reference. We made our observations and thought it was a good choice.”

Marc Marquez set for COTA MotoGP

The signing of🔯 Marquez represented a major pivot away from Ducati’s philosophy which had begun to serve them well.

Francesco Bagnaia was the first of their riders, brough🌼t the Ducati structure, to win the ♛MotoGP title in 2022.

Martin, Bezzecchi and Enea Bastianini were other young and promising riders on their books - all left at the same time as Ducati chose Ma🌌rquez for their 2025 factory🔥 team.

But that decision has been partly justified by Mar🤪quez’s sensational start to the season💧.

He has won the first four ra꧙ces across two rounds in Thailand and Argenti🐎na.

This weekend, he heads to the Americas Grand Prix which is ty🦄p🦩ically one of his favourites.

“I think Pecco started with two races that weren’t among hiꦗs favourites,” Domenicali said.

“He finished winter practice with🐽 some problems that didn’t depend on hi🦹m, so we’re not seeing his true potential.

“I’m convinced we’ll see it, starting with the upcoming races, although maybe not in Austin which is a circuit th♚🍰at’s particularly suitable to Marc.

“But I think we🐠’ll see a 🐻championship that is different from Qatar.”