Ducati Lenovo Team

Ducati entered MotoGP in 2003 and spent a decade learning how to build a V4 that could finish races before it learned how to win them. The turning point came when the factory stopped chasing peak power and started chasing usable drive out of slow corners.

That philosophy is visible in the GP26. The bike launches better than anything else on the grid, comes off the final corner with usable torque, and gives both riders the same feeling from the first lap of a stint. In a category decided by tenths, a good start is worth several positions before the first braking zone.

Two world champions in one garage changes how the team works. Bagnaia builds a weekend methodically, session by session. Marquez tests the limit earlier and finds grip where others do not look. Ducati's engineers get two very different data sets from identical machinery.