The 2026 MotoGP season received off to a troublesome begin for the Ducati Lenovo staff, however after a brutal finish to 2025, the staff has a document they’d somewhat keep previously.
Heading into the weekend, the Ducati Lenovo Workforce had gone eight consecutive races with out a win or podium, courting again to the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix.
After all, that weekend was a terrific one for the MotoGP staff. Marc Márquez gained the Riders title and Francesco Bagnaia accomplished the Pole, Dash and Grand Prix treble.
Nevertheless, per week later, issues began to deteriorate. On the Indonesian Grand Prix, only a few laps after Marquez was handed by Marco Bezzecchi on the primary lap, Bagnaia crashed from final place, breaking his collarbone and injuring his shoulder.
Marquez missed the final 5 races of final season and Bagnaia retired from all races anyway, however gained the Sepang dash regardless of a damaged experience peak adjustment system. Due to this fact, there was no silverware within the manufacturing facility staff on the finish of final yr.
Up to now in 2026, Marquez has gained two dash races, however has now retired from two of the 4 Grands Prix. In Brazil, he misplaced head-to-head to Fabio Di Giannantonio for third place, and in Texas he misplaced his likelihood for a podium spot after colliding with Di Giannantonio within the dash.
Bagnaia did not have the tempo to complete on the rostrum, however he additionally retired from two races in Spain and Brazil.
With the addition of 5 races on the finish of final yr to the 4 races initially of this yr, Ducati Lenovo Workforce will miss out on the rostrum in 9 races. This marks the extension of what was already the staff’s longest streak because the 2012 Aragon Video games to the 2014 Qatar Video games with out a podium. After all, the staff is way from matching that 24-race outcome, however this statistic firstly illustrates not solely the troublesome interval the staff is at the moment going through, but in addition the size of its success throughout that point.
Producer Ducati additionally entered this weekend with out a win in 5 races. Six races with out a win at Jerez would have been the model’s longest winless drought since 2020-2021, when it went eight races with out a win.
Sarcastically, it was Jack Miller who ended his win drought at Jerez in 2021, and now it was Gresini Racing’s Alex Marquez who ended his successful streak on the Andalusia circuit.
With Le Mans in two weeks’ time, Bagnaia’s title hopes usually are not even value contemplating given his lack of tempo this yr. Nevertheless, for Marquez, he’s 44 factors behind Bezzecchi who leads the championship.
