Ducati’s season of dominance continued on Saturday on the 2024 MotoGP Thailand Grand Prix because it occupied the highest eight locations within the dash.
After locking out the highest six spots within the Australian GP final weekend to turn into the primary producer to do this since Honda in 1997, Ducati tightened its grip on the 2024 grid on Saturday at Buriram.
With Enea Bastianini profitable forward of Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia, it loved a podium lockout on Saturday within the dash.
Nevertheless it went even additional than that, with all eight of its riders locking out the highest eight locations, with Marc Marquez in fourth adopted by Alex Marquez, Franco Morbidelli, Marco Bezzecchi and Fabio Di Giannantonio.
That is the primary time {that a} producer has completed this in any capability since Honda in Barcelona in 1996.
The primary non-Ducati rider was KTM’s Brad Binder, who scored a solitary level in ninth, however was 13.692s away from the win and two seconds away from Di Giannantonio on the finish of the Ducati practice.
From Binder’s perspective, he has no hope of sticking with any of the Desmosedicis as soon as grip disappears on his RC16.
“Properly, I can combat with them with contemporary tyres,” he mentioned.
“However the second the grip goes away I don’t have the instruments to do something anymore.
“It was a little bit bit tough. I actually needed to become involved in that Ducati combat, but it surely’s the identical final week.
“Anyway, we have now alternative tomorrow to attempt to determine issues out and make one other step ahead, and let’s maintain preventing and see what we are able to do.”
Pedro Acosta in current rounds has been the one rider to carry a candle to the main Ducatis by way of tempo, with the Tech3 rookie inside the highest 5 within the early laps earlier than crashing.
His clarification for Ducati’s dominance is solely its power in numbers and the actual fact the “common stage of using is sort of excessive” for these riders.
“Properly, having eight bikes,” Acosta replied when requested the place Ducati is making the distinction.
“It is sensible, as a result of we have now producers which have solely two [bikes].
“We [KTM] have 4. For this, it makes a whole lot of sense [why Ducati is so strong].
“Additionally, the typical stage they’ve of using is sort of excessive.
“However the factor that you’ve got from eight [bikes], you could have six guys who can go quick, which is the case, for instance, the extent of all the things arrives quicker to a high stage.
“We’re at all times in delay. For this, this makes them sturdy as a result of on the finish they’ve way more information than anybody else.”