Valentino Rossi’s dalliance with Ducati may have been famously disastrous, but there’s good reason to think Jorge Lorenzo won’t experience similar difficulties when he joins the Italian squad in 2017. Clearly, Ducati is a very different place now to when Rossi struggled to a meagre three podium finishes over the course of two seasons aboard a bike that proved infinitely tougher to tame than he had counted on. Since Gigi Dall'Igna's arrival at the Bologna marque in time for the 2014 season however, the team has been on a steady upward curve – to the stage where that first race victory since the Casey Stoner era now feels like an inevitability rather than some vague distant hope....
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