Ducati’s season of dominance continued on Saturday at ꦯthe 2024 MotoGP Thailand Grand Prix as it occupied the top eight places in the sprint.

After locking out the top six spots in the Australian GP𒐪 last weekend to become the first manufacturer to do that since Honda in 1997, Ducati✱ tightened its grip on the 2024 grid on Saturday at Buriram.

With Enea Ba🔯stianini winning ahead of Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia, it enjoyed a podium lockout on Sat💎urday in the sprint.

But it went even further than that, with all eight of its riders l𝔍ocking out the top eight places, with Marc Marquez in fourth followed by Alex Marquez, Franco Morbidelli, Marco Bezzecchi and Fabio Di Giannantonio.

This is the first time that a manuf🍒acturer has done this in any capacity since Hon🐽da in Barcelona in 1996.

The first non-Ducati rider was KTM’s Brad Binder, who scored a solitary point in ninth, but was 13.692s away from the win and two sꦐeconds away from Di Giannantonio at the end of the Ducati train.

From Binder’s perspective, he has no hope of stickin𒁏g with any of the Desmosedicis once grip disappears on his RC16.

“Well, I can fight with them with fresh ty🌺r🦩es,” he said.

“But the second the grip goes away I don’t have the tools to d🐭o anything anymor♋e.

“It was a litt♛le bit tricky. I really wanted to get involved in that Ducati fight, but it’s🅷 the same last week.

“Anyway, we have a good opportunity tomorrow to try to figure t🐼hings out and make another step forward, and let’s keep fighting and see what we can do.”

Pedro Acosta in recent rounds has been ♛the only rider to h🦹old a candle to the leading Ducatis in terms of pace, with the Tech3 rookie inside the top five in the early laps before crashing.

His explanation for Ducati’s dominance is simply its strength in numbers and the fact �ඣ�the “average level of riding is quite high” for those riders.

“Well𝓰, having eight bikes,” Acosta replied when asked where Ducati is making the difference.

“It makes sense, ♚because we have manufacturers that have only two [bikes].

“We [KTM] have four. For this, it makes a 💛lot of sense [why Ducati is so strong].

“Also, the average level they have of riding is quit🌳e high.

“But the thing that you have from eight [bikes], you have six guys who can go fast, which is the case, for example, the lev𓆏el of everythi🎀ng arrives faster to a top level.

“We are always in 🐓delay. For this, this makes them stron🔯g because at the end they have much more info than anyone else.”