As far as PR goes, yes maybe Ducati won't have no. 1 plate but they will have no. 93 which is not any less of a PR you can imagine. 😂😂

Pecco would've been the champion if they remove the sprint format

Marquez sells motogp. No its not fair to Martin. It just shows what this sport is about. Racing and talent is not of the first priorities.

I fear Marquez will pay his entry with crashing Martin he crashed people for the sake of it before...

6:48 "They deserve some credit",.The fans, in fact, most fans, maybe with the exception of Bagnaia's fans, know that Ducati has done the right thing. There are no PR issues here, you gentlemen are trying to create controversy where there is none.

Wei should thanks Ducati for not ruining MotoGP. Remember those race with the best guy with the best guy with 5+ sec to the second ? If you like that you can Watch F1 last season or season 20/21, not exactly enjoyable

Isn't this bad for Aprilia that everyone will remember/say that they inherited the No. 1 plate and then Ducati got it back the very next season. Not a good look for Aprilia I would say.

Pecco lost cause of Sprints...and zero's...and to me is insane that all of his falls came in sprints and races and zero in practices

I wonder how he'll look next year against Marc.

The choice wasn’t between Pecco or Martin, it was Marquez that was chosen over Martin by Ducati.

Martinator!!!! 💪

I think Ducati knew this was going to happen at some stage. They been selling the most updated bike to Pramac for some years now, so to finally see Pramac beat Ducati Corse in their bike is not really a surprise to them. I do think Ducati are trying to move away from this and would prefer that Pramac buy the older bikes like Gresini which has lead to Pramac switching to Yamaha for the next 7 years. I feel like this could kill the title fights but then again MM93 is on his way to DC next year.

In any way they surely get back that #1 plate next year

Ducati just make it fair with everyone., instead of Martin getting the factory seat they gave the #1 plate to Martin and Ducati get the duck who lays a golden egg through Marquez

The fact that Ducati are dominating isn't the problem. The problem is that they've turned MotoGP into F1 an the racing has suffered as a result.

Pecco is funny man😂 U have the best engineers,bike and full priority and you are loosing to a satellite rider... Gigi is ruthless..I guarantee you that they have lost faith in Pecco.. Ducati yearn what Yamaha had with Valentino and Honda with Marc Next season is a do or die for Pecco...

Of coarse they will, they nearly as many bikes as the other manufacturers combined. It's absolutely b.s. motogp is garbage, the fia is grossly biased towards the Italian brands and it's a f*cking disgrace

We've had clean professional racing on the track, off the track its also great that Ducati aren't trying to manipulate the championship. This has been a great year for MotoGP! Wish to see more of this and less of unprofessionalism (don't need to name names or highlight incidents, we all know what I mean). Hoping next year and many more to have the same type of clean great racing on and off the track.

If Martin wins, Ducati and Bagnaia will look really foolish. Sure, the title will still be won on a Ducati bike (which is all what Ducati needs), but here's where the cold, harsh truth comes in - Jorge Martin will leave for Aprilia (who would move heaven and earth to convince Martin to switch to the No. 1 plate) and the team he is currently riding for (Pramac) will end its 2 decade association with the Bologna manufacturer after they decided to cut the number of 2025 factory bikes from 4 to 3 and gave the extra 2025-spec to the VR46 team (I'd also like to know how Gresini feel about this). As for Bagnaia - this loss will look even worse if he gets beaten by Marquez in '25. MM93 was occasionally spanking Pecco while being on the older GP23 (he has more points than the other GP23 riders combined) and if he bests Pecco in an equal machinery the following year people will say that had Marquez had the GP24 from day one, he would've won the 2024 title mid-season. With 24 point gap between them it will be a tall order for Ducati to influence the results in Pecco's favour. There's absolutely no way other manufacturers will be willing to help them, so this means that Ducati will need to rely only on their own riders and out of all only Marquez has been able to be consistently on par with both Pecco and Martin. Also, Bastianini has no incentive to help Pecco or Ducati Lenovo as well since he's leaving the manufacturer too anyway (the same goes for Bezzecchi, who happens to be Martin's future teammate)

Pecco was/is the better rider.

Great video, Ducati will lost no1 to Aprilia and it will be interesting to se Aprilias PR next year 😂😂😂😂

I applaud how Ducati conducts themselves and the overall spirit of Motogp racing. This discussion and mentality lives in F1 and doesnt not need to corrupt the bike scene when offers excellent racing, even while ducati as dominating the constructors. Seeing Marc on last years Duc is more a testament to Marc more than Ducati as well, seeing him drag it fairly regularly on the podium. Hopefully Aprilia pick up the slack and together with Jorge they will be challenging for wins next year.

It can live with the title fight....it will regret having moved Marquez to the factory

I think playing fair and equal for Martin has gained more PR than losing #1 plate, for Ducati brand image. it doesn't matter if they don't have #1 plate on their bike, they are dominating anyway

As a fan, I see it as a massive PR win for Ducati by giving Martin full factory support right until the end. Makes it a fair and just championship.

Ducati has a lot of integrity. I hope that this continues for Fabio Di Giannantonio for when he gets a spec Ducati for 2025 and 2026.

They'll have it back by the start of 26. Tell me MM isn't gonna clean up.

Having won the title is probably much more important to them than not having the #1 plate next year. Also there is no real benefit in sabotaging Martin. This would make their satellite teams present and future distrusting. In exchange for what? Imho they are doing the right thing by just letting the championship play out as it is. It will go down in the history books as a Ducati championship and there is no reason to ruffle the feathers.

At the start of the season, I didn't want to put my money on Martin winning the title. Slowly, but surely, he looked convincing and now he is almost there. Wonderful insights from reading between the lines!

well hats off to ducati for doing what's fair and good for the sport. the idea that anybody could be questioning their moral decision making completely baffles me

I dont think it will be a pr blow even in the slightest if Martin takes the #1 plate to another manufacturer. He won that plate ON a Ducati. Now what would be a gigantic or blow is if they were to unfairly take away performance from Marin’s bike. This shouldn’t be trivial to anybody. Hats off to Ducati though for keeping it fair, as it should be for two riders representing Ducati at the end of the day

No matter what happens Ducati looks good in my eyes, props to them and the CEO

You could argue that Ducati actually gets a double benefit from playing it fair and square. Firstly there's the PR from being decent but secondly going into next season they can legitimately have no pecking order between Marc and Peco as without being the reigning champion Pecos position and leverage is severely weakened. They will also in all likelihood take the title back next season

Certainly not going to regret it. They scored a far better rider who will likely win it right back for them

They would want pecco to win but that's a tuff ask

How do we know for sure that they didn't try and subtly influence results? What I would suggest is from a PR viewpoint it would look awful for Ducati and VAG in general for that to be the impression, in a way that would have made any benefit of the "factory" winning not worth it.

I love that Ducati is dominating. So much better than just Yamaha vs Honda that we've had for decades.

Why will Bagnia not win the 2024 world championship? Because Bastianini can't ride the GP24. Bagnia doesn't have a reliable teammate to take the heat. Ducati fcuked up by not selecting Martin in 2022 as the factory rider. They don't need him now that they have a rider as good as Martin but with so much greater advertising pull Pecco/Marquez will be so dominating in 2025/2026 I'd be surprised if they don't bring in discriminating rules to try and stop Ducati.

Look at how Yamaha used to play games first with Tech 3, then with Petronas. Look what that got them in the end, no satellite team for a few years, no extra rider data, a huge disadvantage and utter humiliation at the hands of Ducati/Aprilia/KTM. The PR 'blow' of Martin winning for Ducati is negligible compared the PR disaster of being seen to rig the championship. That kind of thing would follow Ducati and Bagnaia around for years. It's the kind of thing sponsors and satelite teams especially would remember, nobody wants to spend millions on a team that isn't allowed to succeed (see Yamaha again).

Simply no... Coz it too easy to criticize Ducati before Next year

I don't think it's bad for#1 to go with Martin. No one thinks Aprilia has anything to do with it. Infact when Martin can't challenge on the Aprilia it will be that much more obvious how good Ducatis are.

Yet Pecco took 10 wins. I think the sheer resources in his favour shows itself on the main race. Martin makes it up for in Sprints where his raw pace is more essential

I'm predicting another era of absolute Marquez dominance until he smashes Rossi's title record and retires.

Martin winning the championship on a "satellite bike" is simply a masterpiece with which Ducati writes history more than they would otherwise. To have the number 1 on the bike is certainly a nice pr tool, but imo not nearly as much of a deal as you make it look like. Having the 93 will probably be more valuable in terms of merch sales and pr, so I really can't support your points here

Has a satellite team ever won the moto gp riders championship? 🤔

I think the previous two seasons have been very entertaining to watch just because of these two amazing riders. Yes it would be nice to have more manufacturers and riders in the front but I think letting these two race has been a very admireable decision from Ducati. Full credit to them.

To be honest if Martin wins and takes the number 1 plate to Aprilia, it’s doesn’t matter because the history says Ducati won machine won the championship not Aprilia. Ducati are being fair to Martin and that’s very nice of them as a brand and a team.

They did not and they will not. Ducati rarely dwell on the past, although the recent past tells us they have this under control. The domination part, anyway. ❤️🇮🇹🏍

You guys really need to fix your video export settings. The audio in every single one of your videos is so bad the videos are unwatchable. You really, really, really need to Google how to export video for KZbin. The audio could not be worse.

Hot take: if aprillia doesn’t improve great enough martin will be just as memorable of a world champion as Joan Mir