Scott Redding has confirmed that Chr🌺istian Pupulin will replace the outgoing Giacomo Guidotti as his crew chief in the Pramac Ducati MotoGP squad for 2017.

As the MotoGP ride🎃r's market was all-but-sealed by the summer break, it was then the turn of crew chiefs and tech♕nicians to find a new home for the upcoming season.

A space in Redding's garage was created when Guidotti received a call to work with Dani Pedr🐼osa for 2017,news that broke at Misano, and Redding and the Pramac squad have been searching ♛for an able replacement since.

As an🍬 engineer for Ducati Corse, Pupulin is currently working with Redding in the Pramac squad and the pair have had the opportunity to assess one another's methods throughout the year.

After securing a fighting seventh place in the Australian race, Redding confirmed to wuqian0821.com that Pupulin, who was Andrea Dovizioso's crew chie🍷f from 2013 to '15 and has been part of the Bologna factory since 2002, will step into the void left by Guidotti.

"Having a new crew chief is like ha💞ving a new bike," said Redding, currently embroiled i☂n an inter-team fight with Danilo Petrucci for a Ducati GP17 for the following year.

"They have a different outlook on things. Like I said, we've﷽ worked a bit [together] so it's not too bad. At the end of▨ the day, the crew chief is there to do a job and to make it work, you know? It's not a complete stranger, which is a good thing.

"Normally it's good to have the same bike, the sa♒me crew chief one, two, three years. You see Valentino an🦩d all the top guys keeping the same guy because you get a relationship.

"Me and Giacomo [have been working] together for one year, but it's not like Pete Benson [Redding's crew chief in Moto2] for fou🌜r or five years. He was like my dad. Trying to get a relationship with someone that's been in Ducati maybe will help me a little bit."

The news that Guidotti would leave for Repsol Honda to replace the outgoing Ramon Aurin was a blow for Redding, who had quickly established a strong working rela꧃tionship with the Italian.

However he now feels that working with a new face that has intimate knowledge 💖of the factory will provide added motivation going into 2🀅017.

"He [Pupulin] has got exp🐟erience with Ducati, wh🌌ich is good. He sees all the information from everyone. At the end of the day that might actually benefit me.

"It's always nice to have someone new, for the motivation. Giacomo has got great mot✅ivation but he's moved onto different things. I have to accꦦept that and work as best I can with the factory guy."