- With 2-metre social distancing impossible to maintain in the hectic environment of a MotoGP pit box, Ducati are to experi✨ment with the use of microphones for rider-to-team communication.

Goggles, masks and visors will be used for mechanics working closer than 2m together but, "You cannot put a rider behind Plexiglas and a mask when he's just got off the bike because he needs to breathe," Ducati team manager David👍e Tardozzi told GPone.com.

"We're geari🅰ng up to solve the problem either by making team members take all precautions or by using a microphone connected to our headphones so everyone can hear what the rider has to say. We'll try this ꦆsystem at Misano next week."

The Ducati test tea𒊎m and Michele Pirro will be on track alongside KTM, Apriliꦗa and Suzuki at the Italian circuit from June 23-25. ()

- Giꦍacomo Agostini has become the latest to express surprise that Alex Marquez could be dropped from Repsol Honda's 2021 line-up before completing a racing lap in the premier-class.

The reigning Moto2 champ♕ion is joining MotoGP alongside brother and reigning champion Marc this season, but it increasingly looks like Pol Espargaro will take over the seat next season.

"I do not know how thꦏe situation is with Pol Espargaró but I would not understand if Alex lost the seat before starting his MotoGP career," said 🗹the 15-time world champion, echoing recent comments by another legend of the sport, Mick Doohan.

- Speaking of Ducati, the Italian factory has revealed it is now using Artificial Intelligence (or 'machine learning') to helജp analyse huge amounts of data faster than would be possible by humans.

"It is capable of managing an incredible amount of data, something that we can🌃not do, it does correct calculations and gets parameters in real time," said Gabriele Conti, Ducati's director of electronic engineering.

"The next step, and it's somethꦇing we're already working on, wil𒀰l help the track engineers develop the new bike." []

Marc Marquez probably takes more risks than 🐽any other MotoGP rider, but even the eight-time world champion thinks racing at the Isle of Man TT is a step too far.

"I have a lot of respect for the riders that race there, but I don't like it," GPOne.com reports M🅠a♍rquez as saying, during an event for sponsors Estrella Galicia.

"I like to have fun, to enjoy riding🦩, to look for the limit; to go to the Isle of Man is to gamble away your life, that's how I sಞee it. I ride bikes to have fun, not to suffer and endanger my life" []