Gigi Dall'Igna: "Ducati has suffered for Bagnaia

The 2025 MotoGP season saw Marc Marquez and Ducati dominate, thanks to the work of Gigi Dall'Igna and a bike clearly superior to its rivals. Although it wasn’t the absolute best year for every rider, Ducati secured the Triple Crown, winning the riders’, constructors’, and teams’ titles. In a post on LinkedIn, the general manager highlighted both the positives and the negatives.

Gigi Dall'Igna recalled all the successes of the Lenovo Ducati team in the latest MotoGP championship. "We won 17 of the 22 scheduled GPs, took 12 pole positions, 19 sprint races, and set a record streak of 88 consecutive podiums with at least one Ducati present." And this is exactly the record he is most proud of, the 88 consecutive podiums. "It means that Ducati had at least one rider on the podium 88 times in a row. From Aragon 2021 to today, and next year we’ll be in 2026: an incredible streak!"

Dall'Igna is more than satisfied with his rider line-up. "In MotoGP we won everything: constructors’, team, rider, rookie, and independent team titles. And all our riders stepped on the podium at least once; four out of six won at least one race."

However, one rider stood out more than the others—the one who won the world championship and notched nearly 50% of the victories: Marc Marquez. 545 points, 11 GPs, 8 pole positions, and 14 sprint races with 10 doubles, 7 of them in a row. "He is the first Ducati rider to achieve 15 consecutive wins across Sprints and GPs, the first to reach the podium in 11 consecutive races, and the first to end the season with more than ten wins in both Sprints and GPs."

"But what is equally important, if not more so, is that his return to the grid—initially with a satellite team—his tenacity, and his enthusiasm embody an ambition that isn’t financial, but that of a champion who longed to regain the feelings lost in his true odyssey of recent years. He is an example to everyone, and it is an honor for the factory team to have him."

From gratitude for Marc’s success to Bagnaia’s struggles. "The team suffered for Pecco who, it must be said, luck did not forgive. Especially towards the end of the championship, he wasn’t able to get everything he could have, even in less-than-ideal circumstances. Undoubtedly, things should have gone differently, but when you add bad luck into the mix, everything becomes much more difficult, both for the team and for the rider. To learn valuable lessons, I am convinced these situations must be absorbed like antibodies, to draw even more determination to move forward and get back to being ourselves."