Ducati issues rider warning: ‘Don’t do stupid things’
No team orders at Ducati in title fꦦight but one warning issued

Ducati is see𝔍mingly carrying on with its no team orders policy in the 2024 MotoGP title battle finale, but has urged its stable “don’t do stupid🔜 things”.
Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia head into next weeke🅷nd’s season finale in Barcelona split by 24 points, with the former needing to outscore his rival by two to 𒁃win the championship.
For weeks, Ducati riders 𝓰have been asked about being given factory orders, with the Ital👍ian marque electing against this.
One of the biggest issues Ducati faces in implementing any orders i♔s the fact that Martin and Ba🦄gnaia have been a clear step ahead of their rivals.
At the Malaysian GP, third-placed 🉐Enea Bastianini was seven seconds away from Martin and 10.4s away ꦕfrom team-mate Bagnaia.
The two Ducati riders able to get into the lead group - Bastianini and Marc Marquez - have also got their own battle for third in the st🧸andings to consider, with the latter ♒heading this by a point.
For Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi, 🍸he sees organising any factory orders as “very difficult” - but says the marque will continue to issue the same warning ♔it has all year.
“It’s very difficult because Jorgꩲe and Pecco are playing for number 🎃one, but the two riders who can help this situation one way or the other are Marc and Enea,” he told TNT Sport.
“And they areꦜ playing for number three [in the championship].
“In tꦅhe end, third place in the championship iﷺs not bad for many reasons.
“So, I think it will be difficult to discuss sไomething like that. On top of that, I like to le𒐪t the riders be free to play for their own championship.
“[We say] what we’ve said already since the middle of the year: don’t do stupid things between you. We don’t want to have really baඣd [blood] or something like that between our top guys.”
The most famous example ofꦰ Ducati team orders came in 2017, when Jorge Lorenzo was twice issued a ‘mapping 8’ message to his dashboard as code to let team-mate Andrea Dovizioso through.
While Dovizioso ended up ahead of Lorenzo at the Malaysian GP after this message was given, there was no compliance at t𒁃he Valencia fina🎀le.
In the last two years, Ducati has also elected against issuing factory orders.
