Ducati MotoGP riders explain brand’s dominance

The top eight finishers in the Thai MotoGP Sprint ෴were filled by Ducati’s ✤Desmosedici.

Franco Morbidelli leads Fabio Di Giannantonio, Marco Bezzecchi, 2024 MotoGP Thai Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Franco Morbidelli leads Fabio Di Giannantonio, Marco Bezzecchi, 2024 MotoGP Thai Grand Prix…
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For the🐻 first time in its history, Ducati locked out the top eight positions in a MotoGP♓ ‘race’ in the Thailand Sprint.

Since Sprint results aren’t counted among official statistics as ‘races’, Ducati’s latest milestone is only half-true, but it nonetheless remains a fact that not a single one of its motorcycles was beaten by one of another brand on S🍷aturday in Thailand.

The final two of the Ducatis over the line were the VR46 duo of Marco Bez𒆙zecchi, and Fabio Di Giannantonio.

Bezzecchi was the seventh of the eight Ducatis to lock out the top eight po🅺sitions in the Sprint. His theory on why the Bologna brand was able to achieve such a feat in Thailand was quite simple.

“The bike is very quick,” he said.

“The GP24 bike here is really fast, but also our bike [GP23] here is fast,🉐 through the season has been🐎 fast.

“So, they work very well. I nev🍸er tried other bikes, so I can’t judge or make a comparison. For sure the bike is competiti📖ve, you can see from the result.”

Bezzecchi’s teammate, Fabio Di Giannantonio, was m🍰ore clꦉear about what he thinks is the key to Ducati’s current dominance of MotoGP.

“I thꦍink the bike is really consistent in every condition, and also we make the tyre work in a really proper w🍸ay,” he said.

“Even when we chꦜange the construction the bike is working really good, we don’t feel much change on it, so that’s the main thing.

“Also, in the MotoGP of today, we have not the best bike in one area, but we have a 9/10 bikꦛe in every area, and this means the bike is the best bike to compete.”

Di Giannantonio’s 2025 teammate, and Bezzecchi’s 2025 replacement, Franco Morbidelli, had his💙 own fairly straigh🌳tforward view on why the Ducati — a bike on which he is completing his first season — is so strong.

“It’s the first time it happened this year,” Morbidelli s๊aid. “I mean, this is ಞa reflection of a great machine that the Ducati is. GP23, GP24, it doesn’t matter. It’s a great machine.”

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