Ducati’s team manager Davide Tardozzi has defended MotoGP’s ride height devices as the debate on their safety conti🐟nue♑d after start issues at the Aragon Grand Prix.

In both the sprint and the grand prix, Francesco Bagnaia suffered a large amount of wheelspin off the line ⛦as he tried to launch away from third on the grid.

In the sprint, he was lucky not to be hit by Gresini’s Alex Marquez (though the pair would then collꦅide late in the grand prix), while several others - most notably Aleix Espargaro - also had similar issues.

Aft🍎er the spri🐽nt, the state of the resurfaced Aragon track came under fire from the riders, as did the lack of proper cleaning they felt hadn’t been carried out.

The track was swept on Saturday ev♔ening, though overnight rain brought d🔜irt back onto the circuit for the grand prix.

Some have pointed the finger at the ride height devꦍices, with TNT Sport’s pundits arguing that Bagnaia’s woes specifically were directly attributed to them.

“I think that the device helps,” Tardozzi began.

“Yesterday [the sprint] was another matter. It was a matter of sand on the ground and race direction did everything that🌊 was possible for cleaning the race track, the start positions.

“But unluckily it rained sand and it was too sandy. Where the riders don’t pass in practice, it was complete🍷ly dirty.

“MotoGP is the maximum of technology.

“You have to go ahead. If you♍ want to go back 20 years, like somebody is asking to have the bikes of 20 years ago or 10 years ago, it’s not our view.

“We are looking forward to have more things, more technology, more future.♕”

Tardozzi repeatedly argued that the 🐽rear ride height device help🅷s to reduce rear spinning.

Parallels between Bagnaia’s start issues and Marc Marq𝐆uez’s in Austria, where he could re-engage his front start device and almost had contact with Franco Morbidelli off the line as a result, were drawn.

But Tardozzi r🌊efuted these, arguing that Marquez’s issue was his own mistake, as he accidentally disengaged his front device tryi𝓀ng to get heat into his front tyre.

“Yeah, but Marc has a problem because of what happened to the front tyre,” Tardozzi added, referencing the fact Marquez’s problems stemmed from his tyres needing to be put onto a new rim because of a broken valve halfꦗ an hour before the Austrian GP.

“Then he was thinking that he had to put the front device in the last moment because he wanted to carry the corner as fast as possible to try to make the front tyre hotter a💟nd hotter.

“That’s why he mad💃e a mistake. In Austria Marc made a mistake.”