Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali has been grilled about his infamous insistence that he wouldn’t sign 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez.

While Marquez was still tied to his big-money Honda deal, but was crashing frequently and struggling badly, the Ducati boss was first asked about signing him.

“It's not the right thing for us. We have a group of extraordinary riders that we have raised,” Domenicali tol🍰d Sky in June 2023.

Weeks later Marquez was signed up to♋ the Gresini satellite team and, a year later, Ducati allowed Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi to walk away due to their desire to move the eight-time champion to their factory team.

Domenicali has revisited his major U-turn.

“If we now have Marc with u꧅s, it’s because we made a choice that was carefully addressed,” Domenicali told .

“We did it, also thinking about the overall performance we could achiev♉e.

“Last year, his performance was a g𓆏reat reference. We made our observations and though💖t it was a good choice.”

Marc Marquez set for COTA MotoGP

The signing of Marqu꧅ez represented a major pivot away from Ducati’s philosophy which had begun to serve them well.

Francesco Bagnaia was the first of their riders, brought tꦿhe Ducati structure, to win the MotoGP t𒐪itle in 2022.

Martin, Bezzecchi and Enea Bastianini were other young and promising riders on their books - all left at the same time as Ducati chose Marquez for their 20꧙25 factory team.

But that decision has been partly justified by Marquez’s sensational start to th꧋e season.

He has won the first four rac🥃es acrossꦅ two rounds in Thailand and Argentina.

This weekend, he heads to the Americas Grand Prix which is typically one of his favouritesﷺ.

“I think Pecco started with two races 🔜that weren’t among his favඣourites,” Domenicali said.

“He finished 🌄winter practice with some problems that didn’t depend on him, so we’re not seeing his true potential.

“I’m convinced we’ll sܫee it, starting with the upcoming races, although maybe not in Austin which is🌳 a circuit that’s particularly suitable to Marc.

“But I 🧜think we’ll see a championship that is di🍌fferent from Qatar.”