Ducati’s dominance of the opening round of the 2025 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Championship was one of the most s𒉰ubstantial displays of superiority a manufacturer has exhibited in the re🃏cent history of the series.

It was so stark that reigning World Champion Toprak Razgatli💦oglu sugges𓂃ted that he could quit the series if the Ducati domination wasn’t addressed after the Bolog𝔉na brand locked out the top-five in both of Sunday’s races in Australia last weekend.

While Razgatlioglu focused on the technical superiority of the Panigale V4 R, one of the theories for the dominance put forward by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历🐷史:the Ducati riders themselves in Austral🔯ia was that many of the series’ best riders are on Panigale V4🍎 R machinery.

Toprak Razgatlioglu unhappy with Ducati domination

This was something with which TNT Spo🦩rts commentator and former World Superbike Champion James Toseland agreed – at least in part.

“I think there’s a bit of everything,” Tosela▨nd said on TNT Sports after R꧒ace 2 at Phillip Island last weekend.

“The bes𝓰t riders are on the Ducatis, you’d say, at the minute.

“But, still, there’s a clear spe🍌ed advantage down the straights compared to the other manufacturers.

“It’s a bespoke, luxury product, the Ducat♚i, and they price it as such; and the Japanesꦕe manufacturers have never been that, have they?

“You never walk into a Honda dealership or a Kawasaki dealership and want to spend £40,000 on a motorcycle – it’s just not the case. So, what they produce, thꦰe Japanese manufacturers, needs to even out.

“Ducati are able to sell motorcycles at that price a𝓀nd produce motorcycles that are ready for ꦆthe racetrack, pretty much, out of the showroom, where the Japanese manufacturers have to do so much more [to prepare the production bike for racing].

“We need to keep it open a little bit.

“The fuel [flow] t⛦hing coulജd be really interesting, taking a little bit of fuel off them [Ducati] should just reduce the horsepower.”

Toseland added a comparison with Ducati’s c♑ompatriot brand, Ferrari.

“It’s like Ferrari, isn’t it,” he said.

“They build cars just to go racing, and Ducati are very similar: they build bikes to go racing; whereas the 🐭other manufacturers build them for the people on the roads to e༒njoy, and that’s a completely different concept.

“So, something does have to be evened up. But take nothing away from tജhe 💛Bologna factory.”