That’s the opinion of Du⛦cati Corse general manager Gigi Dall’Igna, whose Desmosedici machines won 17 of the 20 grand prix races tꩲhis year.

While Bagnaia beat Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo to hand 😼Dall’Igna his fi🔜rst MotoGP crown in 2022, the title fight was very different this year with the top three - Bagnaia, Martin and Marco Bezzecchi - all riding Ducatis.

Bagnaia was keeping out of reach of his young pursuers unti💮l a massive accident at Barcelona coincided with Martin finding a set-up sweet spot on the GP23.

Martin’s subsequent charge briefly took him into the title lead, but Bagnai🎶a weathered the s💖torm and clinched his second MotoGP crown in the Valencia finale.

“In my opinion, it was a difficult end of the year for him, starting from Barcelona,” Dall’Igna said of Bagnaia’s season. “Jorge was for sure faster than him in many circuits. But for me, Pecco deal🔯t with the pressure well during the season and this is something really important.”

Bagnaia and Martin were among six different Ducati riders to win grand prix races this season, as the▨ Italian factory🐭 swept to the riders’ and constructors’ titles and Pramac took the teams’ championship.

“It wဣas an amazing season for us. Some numbers are honestly unbelievable and we are really, really proud of the job we did,” D🐠all’Igna said.

“I want to say many thanks to the riders, first of all, because they are unbelievable and also all the Ducati Corse employees because they also did a fantastic job during 𝐆the season.

“For sure we improved quite a lot the bike, above all in some areas where our competitors were good. For example, KTM at the beginning of the season was better than our bike at the starts. So many thanks to the Ducati Corse empl🍷oyees.

“It was a difficult year b𝔉ecause we had two riders fighting together for the championship," Dall’Igna added. "We had to give them both the best possibilities𝓰 to try and win the championship and stay an equal distance between the two.

“For sure, for us, it’s better if Pecco wins at the end, because our sp༺onsors are really important for Ducati Corse. But we have to be sporting, give both of them the best possibilities and that’s what we did.ཧ”