Stoner’s title in 2007 was Ducati’s last for a 15-year miserable spell that saw Valentino 🅘Rossi, Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo fall sh𒆙ort.

Bagnaia, fin🎐ally, wo🌜n the championship for the Italian manufacturer last year after edging Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo on the final day.

But �🥀�Stoner saw signs in the team’s behaviour that he didn’t like.

“When they start going up and 𒈔down the paddock to all their teams, it’s not just asking a teammate ‘don’t cause any problems to your teammate, stay behind’,” he told TNT Sports.

“It w𓂃as an entire manufactur💝er that they were controlling.

“I didn’t like seeing that❀, and I know 🥃Pecco didn’t want it.

“I feel for Pecco. They put so much stress on situations. They could l🦹earn to be better in that area.

“They’ve not been g꧃reat at handling riders, and understඣanding the pressures they go through.

“They think in their own dimension.

“They’ve had the best bike for 🐠a while now but still struggled to win a championship until last year, and this year.

“It’s not been about the bike. It🌳’s about the way the prog🦹ramme is run. 

“They need to give more credit 🦩to the riders. Let them have a say. And take pressure off, not put it on.

“Let them race! And they’ll figure it out.”

Th💝e topic of Ducati team orders is likely to crop up again over the final three ꦏrounds of this season.

The top three riders in the standings - Bagnaia, Jorge Martin🌺 and Marco Bezzecchi - are the only ones mathematically capable of winning, which means Ducati has guaranteed itself a second title in a row.

But Pramac Racing’s Martin is the in-form rider, having won both races at the Thailand MotoGP last 🦩weekend.

There has been little sign of team orders so far but, as crunch time approaches, the team will come under scrꦅutiny.