Bagnaia and Ducati return for the 2023 season-opening 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Portuguese MotoGP as the rider and the team to beat.

But Stoner, whose 200✅7 championship could not be repeated by Ducati for 15 painf🗹ul years, insists the Italian manufacturer don’t warrant much of the credit for Bagnaia’s glory.

“Maybe the way Ducati💫 handles things isn’t always the best𝐆,” Stoner told BT Sport. 

“They’ve had the best bike for a while but still [didn’t] get the job done. I would put the championship down to Pecco and Jack Miller’s actual riding, to give them a chance at the championship, rather than Ducati handling it as it should have b🍒een.

“Pecco 🌠kept his head. He probably got to a point where he wasn’t thinking about the championship - ‘there’s no chance’.

“He just went for race wins. It’s amazing when y⛦ou don’t have the trophy on a pedestal how much more naturally you can ride.”

Ducati w🍃ent through a period of disarray after Stoner’s 2007 championship, encompassing Valentino Rossi’s two barren years then Andrea D﷽ovizioso’s near-misses in his title fights.

The arrival of Gigi Dall’Igna is widely credited as the turning point, and in Portimaoജ this weekend the Desmosedici is expected to prove itself as the best bike on the MotoGP  grid.

But Stoner says about the start of the ꧑202🍌2 winning season, a year ago: “Ducati were lost at the start of the year because they keep developing, throwing parts at the bike, and you can’t get a real feel for it.

“There are good opportunities😼 [for Bagnaia] to not make too many mistakes at the start of the year, then you can make up ground.”

He offered insight into Bag꧙naia’s character: “Pecco is quite calm. He has a steeliness to him that says: ‘If I want to do this, then that’s it, you⭕ won’t convince me otherwise!’

“As with all motorbike riders, all of us have… I wouldn’t call it an arrogance. It’s a bit𒁏 of pride, I suppose. When somebody explains what to do differently, if it doesn’t make sense to you and your sense of riding, there is always a defence of why you can’t get it to happen.

“But if you don’t have that, then p✃eople have convince you of anythin🐈g.

“It’s also what makes us all dif♏ferent. It gave Pecco the chance to win the championship last year. To come from so far back, the biggest comeback in history, I think that shows a lot of his character.

“As much as Pecco makes mista🍌kes, he also does f🥃lawless races.

“We♉’ll see how he defends it. Whether it takes the pressure off him, he says: ‘OK, now I know how to do it’.

“Or if it puts more pressure on to make sure he doesn’t make mistakes. If he puts himself that far down again [in the Moto𒁏GP standings] I don’t think there’s much c🌊hance of winning another championship.”

Stoner’s title defence in 2008 was unsuccessful - he was edged by Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi. Bagnaia, and Ducati, will hope that🐠 isn’t a sign 💃of things to come.

Stoner’s advice to Bagnaia returning to MotoGP as the reig🌳ning c🅠hampion: “Clean slate, other than the number on the bike which you get the privilege of wearing. When you are racing and you need to make a call of whether you go for the win or not, that comes later in the season.

“Ea🎐rlier in the season, you take stock and try 𓆉to get points. We’ve all made mistakes. The win feels like it’s there, and the mistakes come. 

“Yo﷽u learn from them as much as you can. 🗹But just move on.”