This year, they have eight (two facto♋ry bikes, and tw💮o each from Pramac, Gresini and VR46).

Already blessed with the championship’s best machine, the Italian manufacturer is also able to benefit from sharing data between the mo♉st amount of riders.

Ducati sporting director Paolo Ciabatti was asked by if he expects to be forced to lose, or se🍰ll, a satellite team to reduce 🅺their presence on the grid.

"The regulation does not foresee any obligation on the part of the teams, which, being independent, choose on the basis of the offer, the technical package, the competitiveness of the bike and the cost of this pacꦫkage,” Ciabatti insisted. 

“Ov🉐er the years, the policy of sharing the data with everyone - the riders and engineers - allowed us to speed up development, but it also gave a competitive advantage to the other teams. 

“Four tea♋ms is a lot, but it is also true that at the moment only Ducati is able to supply the bikes they have allowed all the riders to get on the podium, except Enea Bastianini, who had a season complicated by two accidents.”

'We are never satisfied'

Ducati𝓡 are guaranteed to crown their second consecutive MotoGP champion t💛his year, following 15 winless seasons.

Francesco Bagnaia, Jorge Ma𒀰rtin and Marco Bezzecchi are the only riders in the running for the title with three rounds remaining.

Can Ducati possibly dominate further?

"It is clear that we are never satisfied and that we always try to improve from all ꦕpoints of view: engineers, technical point of view and management of our riders,” Ciabatti insisted.

“At the moment we cannot complain because we have among the best riders and it is right that other riders remain with other teams because🤪 it shouldn't be a single-make championship. 

“In Australia we finished first, second and third, [in Thaila🌃nd] we achieved the 13th consecutive pole position: those are impressive numbers. 

“It seems right to me to be happy with w🔯hat we have at the moဣment. 

“We don't hide the fact that having Marc Marquez on a Ducati can be complex to manage, but it's a luxury to be a💧ble to have so many champions on our bikes."

Ca🎶sey Stoner’s 2007 title was Ducati’s last until Bagnaia in 2022.

But Ciabatti can pinpoint an unexpected year when he knew their fort💝unesꦏ were changing.

"In 2015 with the new bike,” he said. 

“The previous bikes suffered from a technical sitಌuation that had become very complicated in the two years in which Ducati was with Valentino and had not managed to obtain the results that everyone was hoping for.ꦗ 

“We have come out of two very difficult years , especially in 2014 with Gigi Dall'Igna working on🌠 a 𝕴completely new bike, the GP15, which on its debut in Qatar finished second and third with Dovizioso and Iannone behind Valentino. 

“At that moment we understood that we had fou൩nd the way to regain competitiveness. 

“Then we came second many times, in 2017,𝕴 2018 and 2019 w༺ith Dovizioso and in 2021 with Pecco. 

“Last year was the culminatioℱn of these ten years of work."