New works Ducati rider Danilo Petrucci says there are “10 riders who can fight for the podium” in the 2019 MotoGP season-opener in Qatar this weekend.  With the final pre-season test taking place at the Losail circuit, the Qatar Grand Prix is typically one of the closest races of the season, with last year's event marking the third closest top 15 in history at 23.287 seconds.  At the end of last week's Qatar test, the top 15 on the combined timesheets were split by just under a second, with Petrucci expecting “all the factory guys” and a handful of satellite riders to be in the rostrum fight this Sunday. “It's about 10 riders, I...
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