Ducati’s dominance of the opening round of the 2025 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike🦩 Championship was one of the most substꦍantial displays of superiority a manufacturer has exhibited in the recent history of the series.

It was so stark that reigning World Champion Topr๊ak Razgatlioglu suggested that he could quit🦄 the series if the Ducati domination wasn’t addressed after the Bologna brand locked out the t🧔op-five in both of Sunday’s races in Austr🔥alia last weekend.

While Razgatlioglu focused on the technical superiority of the Panigale V4 R, one of the theories for the dominance put forward by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:the Duca𝓡ti riders themselves in Australia was that many of the series’ܫ best riders are on Panigale V4 R machinery.

Toprak Razgatlioglu unhappy with Ducati domination

This wꦑas something with which TNT Sporꦇts commentator and former World Superbike Champion James Toseland agreed – at least in part.

“I think there’s a bit of everything,” Toseland s🌃aid on TNT Sports after Race 2 at Philli✤p Island last weekend.

“The best riders are on the Ducatis, you’d say, at thꦬe minute.

“But, still, the♏re’s a clear speed advantage down the straights compared to the other manufac𒁃turers.

“It’s a bespoke, luxury product, the Ducati, and they price it as suchᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ; and the Japanese manufacturers have never been that, have they?

“You never walk into a Honda dealership or a Kawasaki dealership and want to spend £40,000 on a motorc෴ycle – it’s just not the case. So, what they produce, the Japanese manufacturers, needs to even out.

“Ducati are able to sell motorcycl෴es at that price and produce motorcycles that are ready for th🐻e racetrack, pretty much, out of the showroom, where the Japanese manufacturers have to do so much more [to prepare the production bike for racing].

“We need to keep it open a little bit.

“The fuel [flow] thi🃏ng could be really interesting, taking a little bit of fuel off them🙈 [Ducati] should just reduce the horsepower.”

Toseland added a com𒉰parison๊ with Ducati’s compatriot brand, Ferrari.

“It’s like Ferrari, isn’t it,” he said.

“They build cars just to go racing, and Ducati are very similar: they build bik🦹es to go racing; whereas the other manufacturers build them for the people on the roads to enjoy, and that’s a comp﷽letely different concept.

“So, something doe🐟s have to be evened up. But take nothing away💦 from the Bologna factory.”