Ducati boss responds to Aprilia, Jorge Martin MotoGP rule change proposal

The MotoGP rule change proposed by Jorge Martin and Aprilia has💦 been met with Ducati resistance.

Davide Tardozzi, 2025 Buriram MotoGP Test. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Davide Tardozzi, 2025 Buriram MotoGP Test. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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Ducati’s Davide Tardozzi says that Aprilia’s proposed rule change to allow injured MotoGP riders to conduct a test before returning to racing sho👍uld not be implemented in 2025.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aprilia’s proposed change would allow riders wh🎀o have missed multiple races through injury to return to riding a MotoGP bik🎶e at a private test, rather than being thrown straight into a race weekend.

It would have an immediate impact for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aprilia Racing rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin, who has been injured since preseason testing and won't return to racing 🍰until at least the Qatar Grand Prixꦍ in April.

Davide Tardozzi said that, while he a꧋greed with the idea of the rule change, he expected it would be something to be implemented for the 2026 season, rather than midway through this year.

“I think that it could be a good idea for the future,” Tardozzi told MotoGP.com pit lane reporter Jac🌠k Appleyard during 🍰FP2 on Saturday morning in Argentina.

“I think that we fa💖ced the same problem with [Enea] Bastianini [in 2023], but nobody gave us the opportunity to let him test.

“So, I think that it could be a good opportuni🐷ty to change the rules for next year.”

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ducati Lenovo Team manager added that he doesn’t think Martin is in need of a test before he returns to MotoGP, and w🅘ill be one of Ducati’s rivals regardless.

“I think t🎃hat Jorge [Martin] will not need a MotoGP test,” Tardozzi said.

“I think that when 🐎he is recovered, he will be one of our [rivals]. We know very well Jorge, and we know that he will be one of the guys that will fight with us for the victory.”

Current MotoGP rules ♏mean that only manufacturers in concession tier ‘D’ – currently only Honda and Yamaha – are able to conduct tests with M✃otoGP machinery with their official race riders.

Additionally, private training carried out by riders must be condu🉐cted with production b💧ikes.

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