Ducati spoke to both Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo ahead of the crucial Malaysian MotoGP bow to try and ensure the Italian’s title chances remained open until Valencia, team boss Davide Tar🍌dozzi has revealed.

Tardozzi said he was delighted with the attitude of both of his riders during – and after – the conversation, and felt it was clear that Lorenzo rode the 20-lap race in Malaysia with🀅 “the factory, the team and Ducati” in mind.

It𒅌 was a day in which the Bologna factory clinched its first one-two of the seas๊on, with Dovizioso’s win setting up a tense title decided at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in mid-November.

And while the mistake of Lorenzo, who was leading team-mate and title hopeful Dovizioso with four laps to go, at Sepang’s final hairpin was clearly not deliber🍃ate, a late attack to vie for a maiden win for Ducati was notab🌜le by its absence in the final laps.

Lorenzo sཧtated, “I wanted to win the race, to keep pushing to the end, but the front was at the limit and to stay with Dovi until the end💟, I needed to be too much on the limit.”

But Tardozzi’s words suggest the Majorcan was riding within hi🦩mself late on to ensure Dovizioso took a maximum points haul from Malaysia, ensuring championship leader Marc Marquez had to at least put his title celebrations on hold.

“We talked with the riders about what can happen,” said Tardozzi on Sunday evening. “Both of them knew the situation 💛and it was obvious that Jorge th🔴ought about the factory, the team and Ducati.

“[It was] Something that happened because we told to the riders that, in this situation, it is good to have the opportunity to have the championship open. I think that it would be stupid to give a present to Marc. We know it’s ve🐲ry difficult. Why not keep it open until Valencia?

“But it’s something we discussed before 🐽with the riders – just if there is an opportꦦunity like this, or if the situation is like that, that must be the result to keep open the championship. That’s it.”

In the midst of a tense exchange between the Ducati team-mates, Lorenzo received a dashbꦉoard message that read ‘Suggested mappinꦇg: mapping 8’, text that could have simply been instructing the Majorcan to change an engine map setting as the race neared its conclusion...

...Or, with the stakes so high, it seems it was probably a coded signal for 💙Lorenzo to let Dovizioso by. When pressed on this issue, Tardozzi gave little away💙, instead pointing to his belief that the five-time world champion was already aware of his supposed role in the race.

“Yeah, but it’s not a matter of messages,” said Tardozzi. “Jorge knows perfectly what is the scenario. With this scenario heཧ knows what is the result. Everything is really simple. We need to keep opeᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚn the championship and Jorge helps the team and Ducati to keep open the championship.”

In turn, Lorenzo 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:claimed he🦄 did not see the d🍷ashboard message when it was sent. “Honestly, I just see the laps to the end on the board. I was really focused to not lose the conc༺entratiℱon on the wet and the RPM and I didn’t see any message. I would say if it was true, but I didn’t see – just in the parc ferme they told me this message,” he said.

So was Tardozzi confident the Majorcan would have l👍et the Italian by without Lorenzo’s mistake at the final turn that allowed Dov﷽izioso through to lead?

“We haven’t spoken yet with the riders about t♈hat. We will do in the next days. But we are very happy about their attitude. They didn’t complain. They have their roles,” Tardozzi explained.

“This year Dovi is fighting for the championship while Jorge has a difficult year in some ways for what is his past. But then maybe next year is the opposit🐲e and being part of the team, part of Ducati means that you are somebody that has to do🍷 the job for Ducati. That’s it. That is simple.

“We were confident that wꦡe could have 🎉two riders on the podium, especially on the wet situation because they were first and third in the session they had in the wet. We were confident about that.

“Mainly, we see Jorge before the race and he was really focused. I mean, you can see in the eyes of▨ the rider before the race if he’s going to perform well or not, and Jorge really, as in the song, had the eyes of the tiger. While obviously Dovi’s condition, he is the top rider [in the championship], you know?”

Dovizioso’s win reduced Marquez’s lead🍌 to 21 points, after the Catalan could finish no higher than fourth in treacherous conditions. The Repsol Honda rider needs to finish eleventh or higౠher to secure his fourth premier class crown in five years, and that’s only if Dovizioso can win the final race at Valencia.

Still, today's events give the I🎃talian a chance, even if it's slim.

Marquez said Ducati's use of team orders on Sunday was 'tot✅ally normal' given the circumstanဣces.

Pramac Ducati's Scott Redding revealed 168澳洲𓆏幸运5官方开奖结果历史:he was told to finish be♊hind Dovizioso at the previous Phillip Island round.