Davide Tardozzi: “I will not change my approach” for Pecco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez

“I have no doubt that it will be very easy to work with th🌳💯em”

Marc Marquez, Davide Tardozzi
Marc Marquez, Davide Tardozzi

Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi insists it will be ‘very easy’ to manage MotoGP champions 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia and new signing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez in the same garage this season.

Although Ducati had to navigate an all-Desmosedici Bagnaia vs Pramac's Jorge Martin titlᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe battle for the past two seasons, 2025 looks set to be the first time two Official team riders have gone head-to-head for the championship.

Many are predicting fireworks, sooner or later.

But former racer Tardozzi - whose hea♛rt-on-a-sleeve reaction to the highs and lows of racing are frequently caught on camera in the Ducati garage - is adamant champions are easier to work with than newcomers.

“I will not change my approach because in the endꦅ it’s much more easy to work with champi💞ons than with young ‘kids’,” Tardozzi said at the Ducati team launch.

“I already know very wel✱l Pecco, while I am starting to know Marc. I thin✃k it will be very easy. And what supports my opinion is the respect that I see between them.

“They speak a lot. They are working together to try to improve the bike and then in the end it will be the racetrack that ⭕will say who is in front and who's in the back.

“But this is something that whoever is behind🦹 will take as a stimulation to be better for the following race. So 🌠I have no doubt that it will be very easy to work with them.”

The Italian, 65, pledged: “As we did in the past, we will support both riders. We have thꦓe power to do it. We will support those two champions - because we have two champions♐, not only two riders - and we are proud to have them.

“We will support them in the best way, and if one or the other will take a different way [with set-up or parts], we will try to support him in the♉ best way.”

Tardozzi won the first ever WorldSBK round at Donington Park in 1988 and later oversaw e🎀ight Ducati Superbike riders' titles before joining the factory in MotoGP.

For many years, Tardozzi faced Marquez as a rival, the Repsol Honda rider thwarting Ducati’s title hopes with Andrea D𝕴ovizioso in 201ಌ7, 2018 and 2019.

Nonetheless, there were some thrilling victories by Dovi against Marquez, such as a last-turn shoꦡwdown at Austria in 2017, with Tardozzi at the centre of the post-race celebrations.

“We already spoke with Marc about that!” Tardozzi s♐aid. “I was so happy w𓃲hen we beat him because I knew that we were beating the best rider of the moment.

“So when we fought with him, I was super happy and the teamꦑ was super happy because beating Marc on those time🅺s was for us something incredible.”

Bagnaia handed Tardozzi his first MotoGP titles as a team manager in 2022 and 2023 befor💧e losing out to Marti𓂃n at the final round of last year.

Ov💛erlooked by Ducati in favour of Marquez, Martin and the number 1 plate are 🐽moving to Aprilia this season.

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