While the Desmosedici GP increasingly dominate the MotoGP world championship, the Ducati continues to set prestige records over the seasons. During the last Malaysian GP, contested on the Sepang circuit, the Borgo Panigale firm offered itself one more, thanks to the podiums of Pecco Bagnaia, Jorge Martín and Enea Bastianini.
Fifty is the number of appearances on the box that Ducati has just reached in the year 2024 alone. Having once again blocked the three places available on the podium at Sepang, the Italian factory has become the first manufacturer to achieve this score in MotoGP during a season.
The brand is not seizing here any mark set by one of its competitors, since it is simply extending its own personal best in one season. In 2023, the manufacturer took advantage of the twenty events on the calendar to score a total of 43 podiums. Before the last round of the season, she therefore has seven more.
This also means that Ducati has left only seven podiums to its competitors so far, while 57 top-3 places have been on the line over the first 19 races of this season.
It is Pedro Aocsta who has challenged for the most podium places at Ducati in 2024, with a total of five top-3 finishes in the main race since the start of the season. Apart from the young rookie, Maverick Viñales deprived Borgo Panigale of a victory during the GP of the Americas. For the moment, this is the only victory that has eluded Ducati this season.
Finally, Brad Binder's second place, during the inaugural round of the championship in Qatar, is the last place that Ducati has failed to secure on the podium this season.
A figure all the more symbolic for Enea Bastianini, who won Ducati's fiftieth podium in 2024 while signing her fiftieth career podium.
Note that with Bagnaia's victory, Ducati continues its series of consecutive successes. The Bologna factory is now only four lengths away from the absolute record of twenty-two triumphs in a row, achieved by Honda between the 1997 Malaysian GP and that of Assen the following season.
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