Paolo Ciabatti has revealed Ducati’s ethos for team orders with three of their riders battling for the MotoGP title.
Ciabatti responded to claims that he will enforce team orders to decide who is allowed to pass: “Not true. People might think I’m lying, but I’m not.
“I tell our riders: ‘Please don’t take out another Ducati rider trying an over-ambitious pass, don’t do it on another Ducati when they are fighting for the championship’.“We know a rider, when he has a chance to win, wants to win. “I don’t want to see anymore of the Andrea Iannone-Andrea Dovizioso [famous collision in Argentina in 2016] on the last corner! That’s the only thing I don’t want to see between Ducati riders.”Iannone notoriously wiped out both himself and teammate Dovizioso just metres from the end of the Argentina MotoGP seven years ago.
It cost Dovizioso the possibility to fight Marc Marquez for the championship, an almighty blow for Ducati amid their years of struggle. That period only ended last year when Bagnaia delivered Ducati their first title since Casey Stoner’s in 2022, and he did it with fellow Ducati rider Bastianini as his fiercest competitor in the final weeks.
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