Amid renewed interest from rival factories in Andrea Dovizioso, Oriol Puigdemont argues that Ducati can ill-afford to allow the Italian rider to be tempted to jump ship - and therefore needs to pay up. It should come as little surprise that the likes of Honda and Suzuki are interested in signing Dovizioso, who once again is looking like being Ducati's sole hope of a championship title this year. His victory in Qatar served to confirm what pre-season testing indicated, which is that Dovizioso is the man with the best chance of dethroning MotoGP's dominant force, Marc Marquez. When Ducati bet on Jorge Lorenzo to help it win its first premier class crown in a decade, it probably didn't...
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