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Martin: "Bagnaia is in a team built to win, we are against the world"

Jorge Martin feels he and Pramac have been fighting “against the world” in MotoGP this year, with his rival Francesco Bagnaia racing for a factory Ducati team that is “built to win”.

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Ducati refuses team orders to help Bagnaia retain MotoGP title

Factory Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi has insisted that Enea Bastianini will not be expected to help team-mate Francesco Bagnaia win the MotoGP riders' championship over the final two weekends of the season.

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Bagnaia slams "ridiculous" towing problem in Silverstone MotoGP qualifying

Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia has hit out at other MotoGP riders for deliberately slowing down in British GP qualifying in order to get a tow from him, describing the situation as “ridiculous”.

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Ducati "in no hurry" to re-sign Bagnaia beyond MotoGP 2024

The Italian snapped a 15-year title drought for Ducati in 2022 when he beat Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo to the championship, marking the Italian brand’s first since 2007.

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Too early to say MotoGP 2024 will be "Ducati-only championship" - Bastianini

The Borgo Panigale marque also kicked off pre-season testing for 2024 on the front foot, with two-time champion Francesco Bagnaia leading a top four lockout for the Desmosedici.

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Dall'Igna: MotoGP concessions allow rivals to make mistakes Ducati can't make

On the 10th anniversary of his arrival at the Bolognese company, the engineer has been accumulating influence, in his team and in the championship, to the point of being seen by many as the Adrian Newey of the competition. After breaking most records last season, Ducati will face 2024 in…

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Dall'Igna: MotoGP concessions allow rivals to make mistakes Ducati can't

On the 10th anniversary of his arrival at the Bolognese company, the engineer has been accumulating influence, in his team and in the championship, to the point of being seen by many as the Adrian Newey of MotoGP. After breaking most records last season, Ducati will face 2024 in full…

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MotoGP Grid 2024: What is next season's rider line-up in MotoGP?

All rides are now confirmed for the 2024 MotoGP season, with seven teams changing its line-up.

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Bastianini: 2024 Ducati MotoGP bike “better from the start” in Valencia test

Just two days after the conclusion of the 2023 MotoGP season, the first official test of 2024 took place on 28 November.

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Bagnaia: Martin will be "more in trouble than today" for MotoGP title decider

With 21 points splitting factory Ducati rider Bagnaia and Pramac’s Martin coming into this weekend’s finale, the former could have won the championship in the sprint by outscoring his rival by at least four points.

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MotoGP Valencia GP: Vinales takes pole as Bagnaia heads Martin for title showdown

The factory Aprilia rider put in the first ever 1m28s lap at Circuit Ricardo Tormo with a 1m28.931s to take his first pole since Assen in 2021, two days prior to announcing he was quitting Yamaha a year early.He led from factory Ducati rider Bagnaia, who dominated Q1 before finishing…

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Martin 'doesn't care' if Bagnaia gets help from other Ducatis in 2023 MotoGP title chase

The Spaniard comes into this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix trailing Bagnaia by 14 points, after struggling to fourth in the Malaysian GP behind the factory Ducati team rider.

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Martin ‘doesn’t care’ if Bagnaia gets help from other Ducatis in 2023 MotoGP title chase

The Spaniard comes into this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix trailing Bagnaia by 14 points, after struggling to fourth in the Malaysian GP behind the factory Ducati team rider.

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The “joker” in Bagnaia’s arsenal for his 2023 MotoGP title fight

A double victory in Thailand narrowed the gap between Pramac’s Martin and his factory Ducati counterpart Bagnaia, which started at 27 ahead of the Buriram event.

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Bagnaia ‘keeping feet on the ground’ after latest MotoGP title swing

This time last week in Indonesia, Bagnaia lost the title lead to Martin after the Pramac rider won the sprint and moved seven points clear.But a crash for Martin in Sunday’s main race and a win for Bagnaia put the reigning champion 18 clear coming to Australia.Bagnaia qualified third having…

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Bagnaia 'cannot make mistakes' like India crash after MotoGP points lead slashed

At the start of the month, Bagnaia had appeared on course to score back-to-back titles, having arrived in Barcelona with a 62-point lead following his fifth victory of the season in Austria.

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MotoGP Catalan GP: Espargaro defeats Bagnaia in sprint race

A year on from losing a podium on home soil for miscounting how many laps he had remaining, Espargaro made up for this by beating world champion Bagnaia by just under two seconds.

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MotoGP Catalan GP: Espargaro tops Friday as Japanese manufacturers embarrassed

Having led an Aprilia 1-2 at the end of first practice in Barcelona on Friday, Espargaro carried on his strong home form to top the second session by 0.362 seconds from team-mate Maverick Vinales.

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MotoGP Austrian GP: Zarco edges Quartararo to top first practice

As has been the case since the British GP, the opening 45-minute session of the weekend does not count towards the qualifying groups for Saturday.

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MotoGP British GP: Espargaro beats Bagnaia in last-lap thriller from 12th

The Aprilia rider’s second career grand prix victory came after he threw his RS-GP up the inside of Ducati’s Bagnaia into Maggotts on the final lap and fended him off through the rest of the tour.

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MotoGP British GP: Bezzecchi leads VR46 1-2 from Marini in FP1

The Italian set a 2m00.295s on his final attempt to top the timesheet, with Marini just 0.036s behind him.

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MotoGP champion Bagnaia "accepts" criticism of his fraught 2022

MotoGP world champion Francesco Bagnaia says he accepts the criticisms he faced across 2022 for mistakes he made on and off-track, but says “without mistakes you can’t grow”.

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How the VR46 Academy moulded Bagnaia into a MotoGP world champion

MotoGP world champion Francesco Bagnaia has credited Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Academy for helping him become a title winner in 2022.

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The key moments that led to Bagnaia’s historic maiden MotoGP title

Francesco Bagnaia is the 2022 MotoGP world champion, ending a barren run for both Ducati and Italy in an historic turnaround across a dramatic season.

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Miller: My main goal is not helping Bagnaia to MotoGP title in Malaysia

Jack Miller says his main goal at the Malaysian Grand Prix is not to help Ducati teammate Francesco Bagnaia to the MotoGP title, but will assist if needed.

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