Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali has been grilled about his infamous insistence that he wouldn’t sign 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez.

While Marquez was still tied to his big-money Honda deal, but was crashing frequently and struggling badly, the Ducati boss was first asked about signing him.

“It's not the right thing for us. W💧e have a group of extraordinary riders that we have raised,” Domenicali told Sky in June 2023.

Weeks later Marquez was signed up to the Gresini satellite team and, a year later, Ducati allowed Jorge Marti🍸n and Marco Bezzecchi to walk away due to their desire to move the eight-time champion to their factory teಞam.

Domenicali has revisited his major U-turn.

“If we no🅷w have Marc with us, it’s because we made a choice that was carefully addressed,” Domenicali told .

“We did it, also thinking about the overall pe🤡rformance we could achieve.

“Last year, his performance was a great reference. We made our observations and thought it was a good choꦫice.”

Marc Marquez set for COTA MotoGP

The signing of Marquez represented a major pivot away from Ducati’s philosophy which had begun to serve them♉ well.

Francesco Bagnaia was the first of their riders, brought the Ducati structꦛure, to win the MotoGP ti♔tle in 2022.

Martin, Bezzecchi and Enea Bastianini were other young and promising riders on their books - all left at ๊the same t🅰ime as Ducati chose Marquez for their 2025 factory team.

But that decision has been partl🙈y justified by Marౠquez’s sensational start to the season.

He ha🐬s won the first four races across two rounds in Thailand and Arge🍷ntina.

This weekend, he𓃲 heads to the Americas Grand Prix which is typically one of his favourites.

“I think Pecco started with two races that were💟n’t among hi♌s favourites,” Domenicali said.

“He finished winter practice with somಌe problems that didn’t depend on him, so we’re not seeing his true potential.

“I’m convinced we’ll see it, start💯ing with the upcoming races, although maybe not in Austin which is a circuit that’s particularly suitable to Marc.

“But I think 𓂃we’ll s🥂ee a championship that is different from Qatar.”