Luigi Daligna has signed a number of MotoGP riders as general manager of Ducati Corse, with Marc Marquez being the latest hire for his factory team in 2025.
The Borgo Pangale group is named Dale Igna As General Manager in October 2013, Bernhard Gobmeyer joined the wider Volkswagen Motorsport Group 10 months later. Ducati. Dall’Igna officially took up the role for the Ducati MotoGP team in November 2013.
Ducati in 2010 He hired Daliegna after seeing him guide Aprian to strong success in the World Superbike Championship, including co-ordinating Max Biaggi’s WSBK titles in 2010 and 2012. Ducati did not secure a podium in 2013. MotoGP seasonThey go to the fourth place in the group stage.
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Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden formed the Ducati rider line-up for the 2013 season, with the Italian sitting eighth as the best Ducati pilot on 140 points. Ducati also signed Cal Crutchlow in August 2013 to replace Hayden from the 2014 season.
Dall’Igna did Andrea Iannone. In the year Having made his first signing as Ducati general manager in August 2014, he was quickly chosen to replace Crutchlow from the 2015 season. Several riders have come through the team since then, and MotoGP News has ranked all of Dall’Igna’s Ducati signings.
7) Andrea Iannone – 32 races, 1 win and 300 points for Ducati
Iannone became the first rider to sign for Ducati ahead of the 2015 MotoGP season. But the Vasto native’s time at Borgo Pangale would eventually last for only two seasons.
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Ducati reaped the rewards of taking over from Iannone, ahead of Dovizioso in eighth, having finished fifth in the 2015 riders’ standings. However, at the start of 2016, as the pressure mounted on the two Andreas as they battled to secure his future at Ducati for 2017, Iannone cracked.
Dali Igna had signed a new rider and quickly knew who he would replace when he took out Iannone Dovizioso on the final lap of the 2016 Argentine Grand Prix. Iannone tried to make a late move for P2, but came up behind with too much speed.
It wasn’t enough to save Iannone’s first Grand Prix victory for Ducati in 2010 after Casey Stoner won in Australia, beating the Austrian doctor. So the Italian joined Suzuki from the 2017 season, while Dovizioso stayed at Ducati and emerged as a title threat.
6) Inea Bastianini – 31 races, 3 wins and 470 points for Ducati
Dall’Igna started the 2022 MotoGP season following that form. Ine Bastianini And George Martin could produce a satellite Ducati Desmosedicis alongside Gresini and Pramac, having already decided to sign one of the two riders for the Bologna Bullets for the 2023 campaign.
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Bastiani eventually beat Martin to the factory Ducati seat and signed a two-year contract in August 2022. The Italian impressed Daleignan as a year-old with GP21 wins in Qatar, USA and France, and another Grand Prix victory followed in Aragon in 2022.
But Bastianini’s introduction to the factory Ducati team got off to an auspicious start when the Italian broke his right shoulder in a MotoGP sprint race at the 2023 Portuguese GP debut. VR46’s Luca Marini took Bastianini to Portimao, and would miss a total of five laps.
Another four-round absence followed in 2023 after Bastianini caused a multi-rider crash in the first round of that year’s Catalan Grand Prix. Even a season-ending victory at the Malaysian GP was not enough to save Bastianini’s first season with the factory Ducati team in 2023.
Bastianini’s tenure with Ducati ends in 2024 after the Bologna Bulls signed his successor in June after starting his term with only intermittent podiums. His tendency to start Grand Prix slow and save his rear tire held Bastianini back.
5) Danilo Petrucci – 33 races, 2 wins and 254 points for Ducati
Ducati raided their satellite team Pramac to sign in June 2018 Danilo Petrocchi And they’ve ended their search for another teammate for Dovizioso. But while Petrucci scored an emotional win for Ducati at the 2019 Italian Grand Prix, his time at the team didn’t work out.
Petrucci struggled to adapt to the rear tire introduced by Michelin in 2020, with his win at the French Grand Prix the only highlight of his second and final season as a factory Ducati rider. It will be his only platform during the 2020 campaign.
4) Jorge Lorenzo – 32 races, 3 wins and 271 points for Ducati
Dale Igna put the fortune of Ducati on the table to convince George Lorenzo Leaving Yamaha in April 2016 as the Borgo Panigale brand offered the three-time MotoGP champion a two-year €50m (£43.5m) deal. But Lorenzo struggled to adapt to the Ducati bike at first after the transfer.
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Lorenzo endured a miserable first season for DucatiHe went from challenging for the title in eight consecutive seasons to finishing seventh without a Grand Prix win. The Spaniard has finished more races out of 10 (5) than he has on the podium (3).
Therefore, Dall’Igna quickly decided to replace Lorenzo with Petrucci in June 2018, but Ducati then saw the former finally turn a corner. Lorenzo won the 2018 Italian GP and the Catalan GP back-to-back and took a further victory at the 2018 Austrian GP before injuries marred his run.
Lorenzo missed four of the final five rounds of the 2018 season after dislocating a toe and fracturing the second metatarsal in his right foot in Thailand and later requiring surgery on his left ankle. Without the injury, Ducati might have regretted letting him go.
Ducati finally saw what Lorenzo could produce when he felt comfortable on their bike After starting the 2018 season by failing to finish 10 Grands Prix in the first four rounds, he added a layer to his gas tank. The extra padding allows Lorenzo to use his legs more.
3) Jack Miller – 38 races, 3 wins and 370 points for Ducati
As Ducati offered, Daleigna once again took the path of raiding Pramac, who tried to sign another rider in May 2020. Jack Miller A one-year agreement to join their factory team. It only took Miller the first four rounds of the 2021 season to take two wins at Ducati.
But Miller’s early promise failed to translate into consistent results, as he regularly floated off stage. The Australian will take just one more Grand Prix win for Ducati in the 2022 Japanese GP, which comes after KTM signed Miller to a two-year deal.
2) Francesco Bagnaia – 99 races, 31 wins and two titles for Ducati
Francesco Bagnaia He will go down as one of the most important riders in Ducati’s history as a MotoGP team. Like his Italian compatriot Dovizioso, Bagnaia helped turn Ducati into a dominant team early in the championship’s aero revolution.
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Bagnaia signed in September 2020 to graduate to Pramac, where he has raced on a factory Ducati contract since debuting in MotoGP in 2019 after Dovizioso opted not to renew his deal. It proved to be one of the best decisions Dale Igna ever made.
Bagnaia emerged as a title contender when he joined Ducati and is close to winning the crown in 2021, 26 points clear of Yamaha’s Fabio Quattararo. Finally, it was second time lucky for Bagnaia in 2022, sealing Ducati’s first title since Stoner in 2007.
The native of Turin has won back-to-back championships in 2023. He is 10 points clear of Martin in 2024 when the Spaniard won the championship on satellite Ducati at Pramac. And beyond the title, Bagnaia was a Ducati leader alongside Miller and later Bastianini.
1) Marc Marquez – 18 races, 11 wins and one title for Ducati
Dale Igna has decided that Ducati will not offer Bastiani a new contract at the start of the 2024 season. And it didn’t take Dall’Igna time to decide whether Ducati should sign him. Marquez Ahead of Martin to join Bagnaia, the Spaniard has agreed a two-year contract from June 2024, starting in 2025.
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Ducati chose to sign Marquez over Martin After seeing what he could achieve aboard Gresini’s Year GP23, he left the factory Honda crew for the satellite Ducati team in 2024. Ducati decided to sign Marquez before he won a Grand Prix with Gresini.
Ducati has no regrets about taking on Marquez as Martin won the 2024 MotoGP riders’ title by beating Bagnaya before joining Aprilia in 2025. The Cervera native was in a different league to any other rider in 2025, having won his first title since 2019.
Marquez won the 2025 MotoGP title in five roundsHe left Motegi with a 201-point lead over his brother Alex Marquez following the Japanese Grand Prix. In the 18 rounds he competed in, he scored 11 Grand Prix, 14 Sprint wins and eight pole positions.
