Beating your team-mate is the first rule in MotoGP - like any motorsport - and has seen riders go to e🎐xtreme lengths to keep the secrets of their success away from the other side of the garage.

Not so in the case of And𒁏rea Dovizioso and new tea🐎m-mate Danilo Petrucci.

To help make the most of what could be a 'life-changing' factory Ducati chance, Dovizio🎃so has taken Petrucci under his wing to prepare forꦰ the 2019 season.

Petrucci will be based close to Forli to be with the double MotoGP title runner-up. But they won't just train together,🦂 Dovizioso has given the younger Italian access to the same sport psychologist he cr⛎edits with helping him become Ducati's most successful rider since Casey Stoner.

"Now we have the same doctor, the same psycholog❀ist. Dovi gave me everything, he said, 'In the last two years, I've improved because I stayed with these people. Now these people are availab🔯le for you, because I think if you are very, very fast this year it can change your life. So you have nothing to lose'," Petrucci revealed.

Petrucci, who has taken six podiums😼 and a best of eighth in the world championship at the satellite✱ Pramac team before being hired to replace Jorge Lorenzo, admitted he was initially confused by the extent of Dovizioso's generosity.

"I said, 'Okay, but why are you doing this? Wh𓄧y are you telling me all your secrets?'

"And he said, 'I need your help, maybe at the beginning you need more my help, but since the first test I will need you for a comparison because I know you are fast in certain situations and yo♓u can give m🤡e a help.

"So 𒆙when you are not fast I give you a help and we can [help] each other, riding together from motocross [training] to Mot♈oGP'.

"Working together with Andrea especially I notice a change in his way of life. It's quite different. It's more cautious of his potential. And this makes me very calm and positive about the𝕴 future.

"Also staying with him at home ꦐis important for me because I can pick some secrets around and it's useful for me at this moment!"

Pressed on 💫what has changed fr♉om his previous MotoGP preparation, Petrucci began with the physical side:

"🧜In the past I followed a ꧋sport medical group coming from Formula One and, we are still friends, but Dovi gave me this chance and it's a different way of thinking about the preparation.

"When I started to work together with Dovi, training together at his place ♛with a motocross bike and in the gym, he said, 'but what are you going to do, the Olympics or MotoGP?’

"Because for me it was normꦛal to have three hours of tra💫ining per day.

"And he said, 'you don’t have to focus on the quantity, you have to focus on the quality. You have to train shorter, but more intense, for what you need. And I can give you my advice and my psychologist who will help you to understand your body and mind toꦏ become better’.

"Because usually I had so much training that I arrived at the races already tired. And you are training, training, training, and you arrive at the race and in the last five laps – not always, but sometimes – I said, 'okay, what do I miss to be more fast?'ꦦ"

In terms of the mental 🍌aspect with the sport psychologist, Petrucci said:

"I was already very prepared as far as mental training in terms of reaction, reflex and concentration, because in my past I worked a lot with Formula Medicine with th🗹ese kind of things.

"But I said, 'I need really a psychologist that gi😼ves me a key to solve a problem that, maybe when I see all dark I need to look at something in another way'.

"So [the psychologist] gave me an exercise for this 🐼month, which is not to complain.

"It's not easy! Because I say, 'Oh f**k, it’s raining'. But I have to try to look at everything from the other perspective. It's raining so I have time to maybe prepaဣre all my things at home, read a book. The exercise is like this.

"Because you canღ train the brain. If you are always complaining, then you are always looking at the 1% that doesn't fit and not at the 99% that is good. You say 'yeah, but…'. There is always a 'but'.

"You have to look at what yꦑou have and do your best with what 🅺you have.

"It's not easy but I feel more happy and I feel more conscious about myself. For sure talk is easy, making results is another thing, but I💃'm really looking forward to jumping on the bike to see how everything is go💎ing in this way."

Asked about their traini✨ng partnership, Dovizioso said:

"With Danilo, I did just one training [so far]. We created a different situation. I think he will li🌜ve close to my city of Forli. We will train a lot together on the bike, all the sports we 🥀can do apart from the real training in the gym.

"𓄧He is also able to work on some other stuff like me [the psycologist], and I think that can help him a lot in his situation now. Because he is so fast, already in the last two years he showed a lot of speed, but he had to learn in some other parts.

♌"I think we can make a really good work togetꦕher, but we'll see."

Petrucci said he has no qualms about changing his approach to racing given the level of success twelve-time🅷 MotoGP winner Dovizioso has achieved.

"I've never had a team-mate that on paper is, for sure, really better than me," he explained. "Jack [Miller] was a challenge last year and we made many races together. In the past with Scott [Redding] it was the same level,꧋ but at the end of the championship I was above my team-mates.

"So this year is the opposite maybe. I have to look to another rider that I can only learn from. So I think to stay c🌄lose to Andrea is a big help… we need each other. Because Andrea wants, truly, to win the championship and I want to be useful for him and for Ducati. To make a great season and fight for the top five in all 🌞the races."

Ducati Corse general manager Gigi Dall’Igna wants a similar level of co-operation between his riders during MotoGP events, suggesting the team suffered due toꦅ the breakdown in relations bဣetween Dovizioso and Lorenzo.

"One of the thi🐼ngs we have definitely changed [this year] is the rider strategy. We have chosen to move from two riders who think independently of each other, acting in their own interest, regardless of the good of the team, to a system that if possible, will attempt to optimise the overall results of the team," Dall’Igna said.

"I'm not talking about team orders, but I'm talking about the synergy i🔴n the development of the bike, and in the setup of the bike during the race w🐭eekend."

Petrucci is the only factory rider on a single-year contract and knows the likes of Jack Miller and Francesco Bagna☂ia are waiting to take over should he not make a success of 2019.