Ducati insist “real mistake” with Valentino Rossi won’t happen with Marc Marquez

"It's a com🐼pletely different gamble," Ducati insist after high-profile failures

Valentino Rossi
Valentino Rossi

Ducati insist that bringing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez into their factory team will not backfire in similar fashion to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi's ill-fated spell.

Rossi had already won all nine of his world championships when, in 2011, he opted to lea🅘ve Yamaha for Ducati.

His two-year stint was infamously unsuccessful and he fled back ܫto Yamaha, although would never win another MotoGP title.

The manufacturer insists that recruit⛄ing eight-time champion Marquez will end differently.

"It's a completely different gamble because of the preparation we have today as manufactur🐻er, bike, management and technical management," team manager Davide Tardozzi ꧂told .

"This ꧑was the real mistake when we brought Valent🎶ino to Ducati. We weren't prepared.

"Ducati wasn't prepared to manage Valentino.

"Today, we are very prepared. Let me remind you that also we now have the two-time wor🔯ld champion.

"The moment you manage Francesco Bagnaia, I don't see why we c💦an't also manage Marc Mar🅺quez.

"It's not that Pecco is anything less than Marc. He's a rider who's proving that he wants to win, an♔d he does it in the most gentlemanly way possible. I'm talking about what happens off the track.

"With Valentino, it was 🔯completely the wrong timing.

"With Jorge Lorenzo, in my opinion, he ﷺmade a mistake sig൩ning too early with Honda.

"If he had waited even a few🉐 days, things could've been different.

"Jorge did a 30.9 lap at Misano, which was 🎶mind0blowing, and he had done it in 2017. Too bad."

Lorenzo arriꦛved on a big-money deal with Ducati in 2017, already🎀 as a three-time MotoGP champion.

The manufacturer was desperately trying to end a wiꦯnless streak dating back to Casey Stoner's title in 2007.

But🐻 Lorenzo, like Rossi befor💝e him, fell badly short on a Ducati.

Marquez represents their third attempt at bringing in the most high-profile rider in the sport. Th🍬e difference now, however, is t🌳hat Pecco Bagnaia has already delivered two titles for Ducati, and they have the best bike in the sport.

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