This year, they have eight (two factory b♕ikes, and two each from Pramac, Gresini and VR4💛6).

Already blessed with the championship’s best machine, the Italꦡian manufacturer 🦹is also able to benefit from sharing data between the most amount of riders.

Ducati sporting director Paolo Ciabatti was asked by if he expects to be for🙈ced to lose, or sell, a satellite team to reduce th🙈eir presence on the grid.

"The regulation does not foresee any obligation on the part of the teams, which, being independent, choose on the basis of the offer, the t꧑echnical package, the competitiveness of the bike and the cost of this package,” Ciabatti insisted. 

“Over the years, the policy of sharing the data with everyone - the riders and engineers - allowed us to speed up development, but it also gave a competitive🌺 advantage to the other teams.🦄 

“Four teams is a lot, but it is alꦇso true that at the moment only Ducati is able to supply the bikes they have allowed all the riders to get on the podium, except Enea Bastianini, who had a season complicated by two accidents.”

'We are never satisfied'

Ducati are guaranteed to crown theiꦍr second consecutive MotoGP champio꧑n this year, following 15 winless seasons.

Fran𒁏cesco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi are the only riders in the running for the title with three rounds remaining.

Can Ducati possibly dominate further?

"It is cl🐟ear ℱthat we are never satisfied and that we always try to improve from all points of view: engineers, technical point of view and management of our riders,” Ciabatti insisted.

“At the moment we cannot complain because we have among the best riders and it is right that other riders remain with other teams because it shouldn't ♔be a single-make championship. 

“In Australia we finished first, second and third, [in Thailand] we achieved the 13th consecutive po🌊le position: those are impressive numbers. 

“It seems right to me to be hap🦩py with what we have at th﷽e moment. 

“We don't hide the fact that having Marc Marquez on a D🏅ucati can be complex to manage, but it's a luxury to be a🀅ble to have so many champions on our bikes."

Casey Stoner’s 2007 title wa🐽s Ducati’s lastﷺ until Bagnaia in 2022.

But Ciabatti can pinpoint an unexpecte𒆙d year when he knew their fortunes were changing.

"In 2015 with the new bike,” he said. 

“The previous bikes suffered from a technical situation that had become very complicated in the twღo years in which Ducati was with Valentino and had not managed to obtain the results that everyone was hoping for. 

“We have come out of two very difficult years , especially in 2014 with Gigi Dall'Igna worki﷽ng on a completely new bike, the GP15, which on its debut in Qatar finished second and third with Dovizioso and Iannone behind Valentino. 

“At that moment we understood that we had found๊ the way to regain competitiveness.&nbᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsp;

“Then we came second many times, in 2017, 2018 and 2019 with Dovizioso and𒅌 in 2021 with Pecco. 

“Last 🥃year was the culmination of these ten years of work."