Factory Ducati rider and reigning champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia sits atop the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings, with Pramac’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin and Mooney VR46’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi still in contention to claim glory.

Last season Ducati let Bagnaia and then-Gresini rider Enea Bastianini scrap wheel-to-wheel as the championship race heated🦋 up.

“Everybody said ‘team orders!’ We didn’t give team orders,” sporting dir💟ector Ciabatti insisted. 

“There was a moment with Bezzecchi fourtꦦh, closing on Fabio Quartararo in third [in Sepang].

“If he was third, Bagnaia would clinch the title which was ver♎y important.

“We said: ‘What shall we do if🦄 Marco passeꦇs Fabio?’”

In the end, it didꩵn’t happen, sparing Ducati an 🥃awkward decision.

B🍒ut, such is their dominan🧜ce this year, that three of their riders are contesting the MotoGP title.

Ciabatti responded to claims that he will enforce team orders to decide who is allowed to pass: “Not true. People might think I’m 🍬lying,🃏 but I’m not.

“I tell our riders: ‘Please don’t take out another Ducati rider trying an over-ambitious pass, don’t do it on another Ducati when they♓ are fighting for the championship’.

“That is the only thing I have ever said.

“I never said to anyone: ‘Yo𒁃u should stay behind’.

“We know a rider,𒀰 when he has a chance to win, wants to win.

“I don’t want to see anymore of the Andrea Iannone-Andrea Dovizioso [famous collision in Argentina in 2016] on the last corner! That’s the only thing I don’t wan𓄧t to see between Ducati riders.”

Iannone notoriously wiped out both himself and teammate Dovizioso just metres from the end of the Argentin♍a MotoGP seven years ago.

It cost Dovizioso the possibility to fight Marc Marquez for the championship, an almighty blow for Duca🎐ti amid theꦯir years of struggle.

That perio🌟d only ended last year when Bagnaia delivered Ducati their first title since Casey Stoner’s in 2022, and he did it with fellow Ducati rider Bastianini as his fiercest competitor in the final weeks.