Ducati must share th✨e blame with Marc Marquez for the Race of Champions incident, it has been suggested.

Marquez’s first World Ducati Week saw him nudge Nicolo Bulega into the gravel in the fin🌟al moments🌳 of the showpiece event last weekend at Misano.

Marquez has since held his hands up for the collision - but eyebrows should also be raised at Du𓃲cati’s timing.

“Do you know who I blame? I’ll ex🌼plain what happened,” Neil Hodgson analysed on T🧸NT Sports.

“It was World Ducati Week, where all the Ducati riders are invited. It’s part of their 𝔉contract.

“T𝔉hey ♛turn up, it’s a fun weekend, they have the Race of Champions. It’s a recipe for disaster!

“You put the best riders in the world from MotoGP, World Superbikes [and British Superbikes], you give them the brand-new Panigale V4 so it’s a level playing field. They have two praꦦctice sessio﷽ns, qualifying and a race.

“In third was Nicolo Bulega but M🍎arc 🌟was closing on him.

“I thought: ‘Marc is going to attack on the last lap’ like you’d expe𒐪ct him to do in a race.

“At Misano with three corners to go,✃ that’s the last overtaking opportunity♏. If you don’t pass before, it’s pretty much done.

“On the las💟t two, you can’t overtake unless a rider makes a mistake.

“Bulega did make a mistake. He turned into the last corner, Marc did a very a🏅ggressive block pass. There was contact, and he knocked🥀 him flying. Marc finished third.

“After, it 💟was almost embarrassing for🤪 Ducati - ‘we didn’t want that to happen…’

“I smile t🤡o myself. Who’s t𒐪o blame? Of course, Marc Marquez.

“But the quality of Marc, the champion in him, the attacker… t🅘hat’s what he’s going to do.

“So who do y𝔍ou blame? You’ve got t♛o blame Ducati for putting these guys out there!

“They are obviously competitive. Of course there will be brave, dangerous, silly, wild moves. That’s the❀ way I saw it.”

Sylvain Guintoli replied: “This is a risky week to organise it, in the middle of the seꦛason.

“When you see how faജr behind Marc was Bulega at the last turn, you can’t do it. You just can’t.

“It’s a short braking zone. There 𒐪is no room on the inside unless you already have the front wheel there. He came from five metres behind.

It was, let’s say, a very late move…”

The Race of Champions at World Ducati Week was not supposed to be a competiti𝐆ve event♈.

Alvaro Bautista, for example, made his 🌌intentions cꦉlear by riding casually near the back.

🍸But Guintoli warned: “It’s like a rugby 🔯match friendly, France vs England. It’s not going to be friendly!”

Hodgson likened it to a ‘frien♚dly’ football match: “Basically, Marc did a two-footed tackle! Studs up! Because ൩the game wasn’t going according to plan for him.

“There’s no ꧃way that, on equal machinery, Marquez wanted to be b🔯eaten by Andrea Iannone and Nicolo Bulega. He wasn’t having it.”

Marquez 🍎ad🌠mitted fault for last week’s collision when he arrived at Silverstone for the British MotoGP.

“I tried something there that I'm usꦅed to doing with the MotoGP bike but in the moment I didn't understan🦩d that I was riding a street bike," he said.

"Even if it's a really good bike, the reaction of the bike I didn't expect and couldn't stop well. It was a mistake. I cannot say anything more.ꦓ"

Marquez is in action at S🧜ilverstone for qualifying and the sprint race at the British MotoGP on Saturday.