Only the eagle-eyed may spot it amid all the human drama in the factory Ducati team pit, but there’s a little technical ritual every time one of its MotoGP bikes returns to the garage. As quickly as possible after the rider dismounts, a cable hanging from the roof gets plugged into the thoroughbred GP25 in question.
It’s a tiny but critical piece of the jigsaw puzzle that made up the Ducati Lenovo Team’s latest successful MotoGP teams’ championship campaign, which was sealed in the sprint race in Indonesia last weekend. Because that modest-looking cable plugs that bike into a powerful support network – one that goes far beyond the confines of the pitbox.
