Ducati MotoGP team manager Davide Tardozzi has praised tꩵhe 'huge effort' made by superstar s☂igning Jorge Lorenzo to adapt to the Desmosedici.

Although often in the shadow of a specta🌌cular season by team-mate and title contender Andrea Dovizioso, Lorenzo led races and claimed three podiums on his way to seventh in the 2017 world championship.

Tardozzi feels the five-time world champion has now done as much as possible to adjust to the bike and it is now up to Ducati to tune the 201ꦏ8 machine so that Lorenzo can exploit his renowned strengths, which proved so effective at Yamaha.

"Jorge made a huge, huge effort to change his riding style, to adapt his riding style to Ducati, and finally he got some results," Tardozzi told wuqian0821.com.

"He's still doesn't have what he needs to be fast, but it is our problem♐. We must bring something for him to allow him to be even fast🍷er,

"Because he adapted himself to the bike, but now it's time﷽ that we do something for him. And whenever we do this, he will be amazingly f♛ast!"

In which area does Lorenzo need these changes?

"Corner speed. We need to let him 𒀰have the bike in the hands on the entry of the corner and carry the corner speed 🎐much faster, as we know he can."

Speaking separately, sporting director Paolo Ciabatti expla♔🐎ined that all Ducati's factory riders will benefit if they can provide the corner speed Lorenzo needs.

"We know we should develop the bike in o🅘rder to help his riding style. We did a few steps in the r♚ight direction.

"I think as you can see, since we came out with the new aerodynamic package Jorge has been using it in every race, regardless of rain or dry conditions. 🍬It gives him a better feeling in the front, which is wಞhat he is still missing.

"I thinꦰk if we can ཧsolve some of the problem, mainly on the chassis side of our bike, all riders using the same bike will benefit. Jorge, Andrea and Danilo Petrucci. Whatever we do to improve the bike in that area will be a benefit for all riders using the bike."

Meanwhile, Tardozzi added that it had 🦂been good for Dovizioso to have multipꦏle MotoGP champion Lorenzo as a team-mate.

"Absolutely, yes," he replied. "I think that Jorge in a way helped Dovi to convince himself that he can be a top rider - not only a fast rider. That's🎃 the diffe൲rence."

Ducati will hold their 2018 team launch on Monday (January 15) ahead of the opening Sepang test at the end of this month, when the full version of the GP18 sh🔜ould be seen on track for the first time.

Casey Stoner is again expected to help shakedown the new mꦍachine.