
A few days ago, at the launch of a new sports road bike in Rome, Ducati Team CEO Claudio Domenicali claimed that Francesco Bagnaia’s season would really begin in Qatar — where a run of tracks more suited to his taste begins.
The two-time MotoGP world champion endorsed the thesis on Thursday, citing the distribution of races in the MotoGP 2025 calendar as a major factor in the domination his new team-mate, Marc Marquez, has shown over him in the first two weekends.