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In the 2022 season, Ducati won the MotoGP World Championship for the first time since 2007 (Casey Stoner). Pecco Bagnaia triumphed against Yamaha star Fabio Quartararo and Enea Bastianini ensured another Ducati success with third place in the World Championship. One year later, Ducati riders occupied the top three places of the MotoGP World Championship with Bagnaia, Martin and Bezzecchi. In the 2024 season, the ingenious Ducati race boss Gigi Dall'Igna further extended the dominance - the top four riders in the World Championship standings ride a Ducati Desmosedici!
In view of this blatant superiority (in addition, 18 of 19 MotoGP World Championship races have been won so far in 2024), the loss of the Superbike World Championship to BMW (thanks to Toprak Razgatlioglu) does not hurt that much. Even the loss of the Pramac customer team to Yamaha seems bearable.
The departure of three Ducati top riders could be more painful: World Championship leader Jorge Martin moves to Aprilia Racing, Bastianini goes to Red Bull KTM Tech3 and Marco Bezzecchi will ride the second factory Aprilia in future. This means that the VR46 Riders Academy has delivered another rider to a MotoGP factory team - after Bagnaia, Morbidelli and Marini.
Ducati Corse triumphed in the Constructors' World Championship for the fifth time in a row this season. All eight Ducati riders are running in the top 12 in the World Championship, they have won 18 of the 19 races and scored no fewer than 49 of 57 possible podium places.
Fabio Di Giannantonio has not yet achieved a podium with the GP23 at VR46 Racing this year. “Diggia” was hired there a year ago as a stopgap because Luca Marini announced his switch to Repsol Honda in mid-November – he replaced Marc Márquez. Fabio secured fourth place three times in 2024. However, things went better at Gresini Racing last year: victory in Doha, 3rd place at Phillip Island.
The late transfer to HRC of Rossi's brother was certainly financially lucrative, with the fee likely to be 1 or 1.2 million euros, but it has proved to be a sporting disaster. Luca Marini has clearly turned out to be the relegated rider of the year: Marini shone in 2023 with four podium finishes in the Sprints, as well as a second GP place in Texas behind Rins and third place in Doha. In the current season, Marini has not scored a single point in the Sprints. On Sundays, however, he has scored also at least 14 points, but finishing eighth in the world championship on the Ducati, Luca collected 201 points last year. Marini is only 22nd in the current standings - behind him are only the wildcard riders Pol Espargaró, Dani Pedrosa, Stefan Bradl, Remy Gardner and Lorenzo Savadori.
Marini is in good company at Repsol Honda with this dismal performance: last year, Joan Mir finished 22nd in the World Championship with a total of 26 points. Now the 2020 World Champion (on Suzuki) is similarly far down the table with 21 points - in 21st place. The Spaniard cannot be accused of a lack of consistency.
There are still some decisions to be made in the two smaller classes at the finale in Barcelona. In the Moto3 class, the question of the runner-up in the world championship between Dani Holgado and Collin Veijer, who will go into the final round of the world championship tied on points and then both move up to Moto2 and meet as team-mates at Red Bull KTM Ajo in 2024, still has to be resolved.
In the Moto2 World Championship, Boscoscuro rider Ai Ogura managed to the first World Champion from Japan in this category. But manufacturer and Speed-Up team owner Luca Boscoscuro (riders: Aldeguer and Alonso) arrives at Barcelona 36 points down on German manufacturer Kalex in the Constructors' World Championship. Kalex has already won eleven consecutive Constructors' World Championship titles since 2013. But the Boscoscuro riders could still pick up 45 constructors' points by finishing first and second in Montmeló
Riders World Championship standings MotoGP
1.Martin, Ducati, 485 points. 2. Bagnaia, Ducati, 461. 3. Marc Márquez, Ducati, 369. 4. Bastianini, Ducati, 368. 5. Acosta, KTM, 209. 6. Binder, KTM, 206. 7. Viñales, Aprilia, 189. 8. Di Giannantonio, Ducati, 165. 9. Morbidelli, Ducati, 161. 10. Alex Márquez, Ducati, 155. 11. Aleix Espargaró, Aprilia, 146. 12. Bezzecchi, Ducati, 144.
Standings Constructors' World Championship
1. Ducati 685 points. 2. KTM 316. 3. Aprilia 285. 4. Yamaha 119. 5. Honda 73.
MotoGP Teams' World Championship
1.Ducati Lenovo Team 829 points. 2. Prima Pramac Racing 646. 3. Gresini Racing MotoGP 524. 4. Aprilia Racing 335. 5. Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team 309. 6. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 290. 7. Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 236. 8. Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP 139. 9. Trackhouse Racing 137. 10. LCR Honda 84. 11. Repsol Honda 35.
Podiums Ducati MotoGP 2024
Martin: 15 podiums (3 x 1st, 10 x 2nd, 2x 3rd)
Bagnaia: 15 podiums (10 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 4x 3rd)
Marc Márquez: 9 podiums (3 x 1st, 3 x 2nd, 3x 3rd)
Bastianini: 8 podiums (2 x 1st, 2 x 2nd, 4x 3rd)
Di Giannantonio: no podium
Morbidelli: no podium
Alex Márquez: 1 podium (1x 3rd)
Bezzecchi: 1 podium (1x 3rd)
Riders' World Championship Moto3
1. David Alonso, CFMOTO, 396 points. 2. Daniel Holgado, GASGAS, 236. 3. Collin Veijer, Husqvarna, 236.
Constructors' World Championship Moto3
1.CFMOTO 396. 2. KTM 320. 3. Honda 284. 4. Husqvarna 263. 5. GASGAS 245.
Riders' World Championship Moto2
1. Ai Ogura, Boscoscuro, 261 points. 2. Aron Canet, Kalex, 209. 3. Sergio Garcia, Boscoscuro, 181. 4. Fermin Aldeguer, Boscoscuro, 175. 5. Manuel Gonzalez, Kalex, 175. 6. Alonso Lopez, Boscoscuro, 171. 7. Celestino Viettio, kalex, 165. 8. Jake Dixon, Kalex, 155.
Constructors' World Championship Moto2
1.Kalex 412. 2. Boscoscuro 376. 3. Forward 16.
