Pecco Bagnaia on Ducati at 2025 MotoGP Japanese GP

2025 Japanese MotoGP

Sunday, September 28, 2025
Motul Grand Prix of Japan
World Motorcycle Championship

Motegi was a triple MotoGP comeback: Márquez completing his, Bagnaia and Mir commencing theirs. The biggest question of all is how did Ducati turn things around for Bagnaia at the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix?

During the last four MotoGP weekends before Japan — Austria, Hungary, Barcelona and Misano — Pecco Bagnaia scored a total of 24 points. At Motegi he scored 37, leading both the sprint and the grand prix from start to finish, no one getting close to putting a move on him.

The turnaround seemed almost too good to be true, so what exactly has Ducati done to the twice world champion’s Desmosedici GP25? The truth is that we don’t know because the factory’s riders and engineers have taken a vow of silence on the matter.

Each time the 2022 and 2023 champion was asked how Ducati has transformed his bikes he dodged the question. “I’m just the rider,” he kept saying.

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