Bagnaia wrapped up the 2022 cꦕhampionship in Valencia and will enter next year as the reigning champion with a new teammate, Bastianini, in the Ducati Lenovo Team.

They have already fought wheel-to-wheel this season and one of the biggest challenges of Bagnaia’s first title defence might be coping with Bastianini, having shared a friendly relationship this year with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller.

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“We know that your teammate is always the guy you want to beat because he has the same material,” sporting dire🅷ctor Ciabatti told BT. “It has always been like this.

“Jack and Pecco? J𝔉ack 🍷is a great human being, a nice guy. They had a special relationship.

“We have had 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Dovizioso and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Lorenzo - differe💃nt characters - working together and we share the data.”

Reminded that Bagnaia and Bastianini are not particu🧔larly friendly, Ciabatti said: “I know, I know. We don’t need the teammates to be friends.

“We need them to respect each other.

“Pecco won seven grands prix this year, En🍌ea won four. They are No1 and ꦇNo2 so will be the strongest team.

“Man🌄aging two Ital♌ians in the team might be a challenge.

“There might be some spice for the championship!”

Bastianini earned the nod over the outgoing Miller and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Jorge Martin to step up into Ducati’s factory team in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2023 MotoGP rider line-up - the stakes have since 🔜risen with future teamma🦄te Bagnaia becoming world champion.

“Starting from Tuesday we will test the 20🍰23 bike,” Ciabatti said. “Hopefully it will be a step forwards for the competitiveness of the bike. We want to start next season in a better way [than the start of 2022].”

He said about the moment Ducati knew Bagnaia could overhaul Fabio Quartararo and win the 2022 title: ✨“The fourth consecutive win that Pecco had put us in a position to say: ‘Yes, we can do it’. 𒅌It gave us a boost.

“It’s been 15 years since Casey Stoner [Ducati’s last champion] and the championship has💟 changed. We always had a competitive bike but could never put it all together.

“ꦬFrom 91 points behind to win the🅘 title is incredible.

“I💙f you look at Pecco’s results; when he was not crashing, he was winning, winning, winning.

“We tried not to make any m🌸ore mistakes. We knew that we had the pace to be on the ♓podium in every race.

“Mathematically we knew that we could do it.