Stoner’s title in 2007 was Ducati’s last for a 15-year m🎃iserable spell that saw Valentino Rossi, Andrea Dovizioso an♒d Jorge Lorenzo fall short.

Bagnaia, finally, won the cha🔯mpionship for the Italian manufacturer last year after edging Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo on the final day.

But Stoner saw signs in the team’s behav👍iour that he didn’t like.

“When they start going up and down the paddock to all their teams, it’s not just asking a teammate ‘don’t cause any problems to your teammate, stay behin🐽d’,” he told TNT Sports.

“It was an entire manufacturer that they were controlli🌸ng.

“I didn’t like seeing 🍸that, and I know Pecco didn’t want it.

“I feel for Pecco. Th🅘ey p🍸ut so much stress on situations. They could learn to be better in that area.

“They’ve not been great at handling riders🔜, and understanding the pressures they go through.

“They think in their own dimension.

“They’ve had the best bike f🍌or a while now but still struggled to win a championship until last year, and this year.

“It’s not been about the bike. It’s about the way the programme i💎s run. 

“Tꦍhey need to give more credit to the riders. Let them have a say. And take pressure off, not put it on.

“Let them race! And they’ll figure it out.”

Th𝔉e topic of Ducati team orders is likely to crop up again over the final three rounds of ಞthis season.

The top three riders in the standings - Bagnaia, Jorge🥃 Martin and Marco Bezzecchi - are the only ones mathematically capable of winning, which means Ducati has guaranteed itself a second title in a row.

But Pramac Racing’s Martin is the in-form ri♚der, having won both races at the Thailand MotoGP last weekend.

There has been little sign of team orders so far but, aꩲs crunch time approaches, the team will come under scrutiny.