Gigi Dall’Igna has p♒raised Marc Marquez for his brilliant Australian MotoGP win.

The Gresini rider fell from second to 13th after a bizarre start - an insect hit his visor, and wh𝔍e🐼n he removed his tear-off it got stuck under his bike, creating wheel-spin.

But Marquez roared back to overtake pole-sitter Jorge Martin for his third grand prix win on a Ducaওti.

It was further justification for Ducati boss Dall’Igna’s decision to pick Marquez ahead of Martiꦍn for next season’s factory ride.

Dall’Igna analysed the Australian MotoGP: “Sixteenth win of the season! Six of our bikes in the top 6 positions: another historic first to celebrate together. Another wonderful opportunity to thank all those who make 🐈up🐼 the great Ducati Corse family.

“An awesome Marc Marquez bags his third 2024 success to reaffirm, as if needed, that he is very much 🐲there, back at the top of MotoGP.

❀“And he does it in his inimitable way following an unbelievable comeback that took h🥃im immediately, and with disarming authority, close to the leaders and then on to the nail biting duel with Martin.

“A true masterpiece on a track most congenial to himღ. He went ‘wild’, as he does when he can scent victory, sparing hims❀elf nothing. Irrepressible.

“But the true measure of his strength, his specific weight, is all in his having immediately recovered from a very unlucky start, imposing himself over everything𝓡 and everyone as the ‘winner-takes-all’.

“Even ove🧸r a Ma🍨rtin who, truth be told, had undoubtedly more to lose than Marquez.

“Still, Jorge tried to prevail, with great merit but not at all costs; he got off to a good start and stayed there at the front un🌊til the last laps, not backing down when it was time to engage in a gripping fight with M🌳arc, but giving due consideration, after having given everything, to the possibility of gaining points that were most important.

“Fast and with the right maturity, he 💜thus moves up to +20 on🌟 Pecco.

“A Pecco who experienced a rather lacklꦿustre weekend, always missing something 💟on a track that is hostile to him: having never really found a feeling with either bike or track.

“Everything was also conౠditioned by Friday’s weather. Conditions that prevented him from carrying out tests that had been planned to optimise set-up on a track characterised by new tarmac, and to metabolise the automat🗹isms he needs to best express himself.

“He raced defensi⛦veಌly putting his all into it, fighting with the leaders as long as he could and then gradually losing ground, especially in the last part of the race.

“But it is preciseᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚly in these situations that the traits of a fighter come to the fore, of one who manages to limit the damage even when everything seems to conjure💃 against him.

“He d⛎id very well, seizing an important podium: even though more could really not have been done, he still wanted to have his say, he was there with the frontrunner꧟s ready to challenge for it.

“Special kudos to [Fabio di Giannantonio’s] great race, may it also bode well for what he has to faceꦓ. An excellent performance, starting from the 12th grid position, he closed with a promising 4th place.

“In the leading group of contenders, fast and tenacious, with a better qualification, who can say..🐽. I remember him here last year with his first podium in premier class.

“Just enough time t🦂o muse on the race in Australia, and it’s already time to th♕ink of the Thai tarmac: another page to be written, anticipating a finale to be savoured.

“Come on, Ducati!”