On Thursday evening ahead of the 2022 season beginning with the Qatar Grand Prix, Motorsport.com reported that Bagnaia and factory Ducati teammate Jack Miller had gone back to a 2021-spec engine.
In testing in Malaysia Ducati brought three different specification of engine for Bagnaia to test: a 2021, a 2021 evolution and the 2022 version.
With the 2022 engine reportedly having aggressive power delivery, Bagnaia – and Miller by extension because of the technical regulations – has gone back to an older engine specification to race with for the new campaign.
But Tardozzi says Bagnaia “didn’t say the 2022 engine was wrong”, and that the decision simply came about because the evolved 2021 engine is better-suited to both Bagnaia and Miller’s riding styles.
“I don’t know why people speaking about Ducati every time is blaming [us],” Tardozzi told motogp.com.
“Pecco didn’t say, ‘2022 engine is wrong, I want ’21’. This is bullshit. I want to say this,…
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