{"id":360654,"date":"2025-12-20T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360654\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:12:07","slug":"ducati-makes-light-of-davide-tardozzi-motogp-divorce-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360654\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducati makes light of Davide Tardozzi MotoGP \u2018divorce\u2019 rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ducati has made light of a report that long-serving MotoGP team manager Davide Tardozzi could depart at the end of next season.<\/p>\n<p>Citing \u201cinternal rumours\u201d, Gazzetta.it suggested<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Ducati<\/a> and Tardozzi may be heading for a \u2018divorce\u2019 following an alleged falling out with Ducati Corse general manager Gigi Dall\u2019Igna.<\/p>\n<p>The report claimed tensions stemmed from comments made by Tardozzi during the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> season, in which he said the team had understood Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s technical needs too late.<\/p>\n<p>Factory test rider Michele Pirro, Pramac team manager Gino Borsoi and former Pramac and KTM manager Giacomo Guidotti were named as potential successors.<\/p>\n<p>However, ahead of Friday\u2019s end-of-year Campioni in Festa celebrations, Ducati appeared to mock the speculation by posting a social media image of Tardozzi and Dall\u2019Igna in a staged confrontation, followed by a second photo of the pair laughing together, captioned: \u201cDivorce? \ud83d\udc8d Discover more at 12.00 pm \u23f0\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absurd and unfounded&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, GPone.com quotes Tardozzi, 66, as saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese rumours are absurd and unfounded. I know my relationship with Gigi Dall\u2019Igna, Mauro Grassilli and Claudio Domenicali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe smiled, wondering why it came out, but I repeat there\u2019s no basis for it\u2026 There\u2019s no \u2018internal rumour\u2019\u2026 My relationship with Ducati is absolutely solid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since retiring as a rider in 1992, Tardozzi has been a central figure in Ducati\u2019s management structure, first in WorldSBK and later in MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>His only spell away from the Italian marque came in 2010, when he surprised by briefly joining BMW\u2019s WorldSBK project.<\/p>\n<p>However, he soon returned to Ducati, this time in MotoGP, where the factory team has won the title with Francesco Bagnaia (2022, 2023) and Marc Marquez (2025).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In between, Jorge Martin won the 2024 crown for Pramac Ducati.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ducati has made light of a report that long-serving MotoGP team manager Davide Tardozzi could depart at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,8456,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-360654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati","tag-ducati-lenovo-team","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}