Ducati MotogGP boss Paolo Ciabatti has said that Jorge Lorenzo's brace of wins came too late for them to keep him as a rider after both parties had agreed not to discuss the future until after the first three European races - or the start of the ground war, as Wayne Rainey called it. Ciabatti had expected his expensive signing to come good in 2018 but winter testing - Sepang apart - was disastrous and a crash at Jerez, mediocre form at Le Mans meant the phone call to Honda had already been made by the time the Mugello win appeared. Suzuki's Andrea Iannone reckons he can ‘do anything' with the GSX-RR if he didn't have big problems in the second half of races. The Italian has been very...
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