Ducati general manager Gigꦕi Dall’Igna believes the marque will find it “impossible” to lockout the top five po𒊎sitions in MotoGP races like it did in 2024.

The 2024 campaign saw Ducati utt💫erly dominate, with it winning 19 of the 20 grands prix and romping to the co𓆏nstructors’ championship.

Jorge Martin became the marque’s thi🍬rd world champion rider when he guided his Pramac-run GP24 to a career-first premier class crown after a sea🔥son-long battle with Francesco Bagnaia.

On 14 occasions in 2024, Ducati locked out the podium, while it achieved 53 podiums from six of💞 its eight riders.

In the sprint race in Thailand, the top eight spots were all Ducati riders, while in the Japꦡanese GP it cemented the top five and the top six at the Thai GP.

Though facing a development freeze (along with all non-concession marques) ahead of the 2027 regulations change and losing two bikes from its stable, D💫ucat isn’t e⛦xpected to slip down the order.

But Dall’Igna is anticipating its dominationꦕ to become hard✱er.

“Next year it will be impossible to get results like♊ Japan (top five) and Australia,” Dall’Igna told Australian MCN.

“But even monopolising the podium like we have done lately will be more difficult. Ducati comes out wel🐷l especially from a sporting point with these results.

“The advantages that the others have, especial🍌ly Honda and Yamaha [with c🅰oncessions], are many, so I expected to have to suffer a bit more this season.

“That’s why we took a few more risks at the start of the year, knowing that the others could progress during the season and we couldn’t. And our rღisk obviously paid off💞.

“Every time I perceive a sli𝓀ght reduction in performance or that the gap with the others is closing, I push my guys significantly.

“These championships are a big tha♉nks to all the Ducatꦿi Corse staff.”

Next year Bagnaia will be joined by Marc Marquez at the factory Ducati squad, while its number of works b♚ikes shrinks from four to three.

The final GP2🐭5 will♕ go to VR46 rider Fabio Di Giannantonio.