What MotoGP’s first major signing means for the rider market

The Italian finished runner-up in the 2021 season after winning four races, and comes into the new campaign as one of the favourites for the championship.

Bagnaia has been a long-term project for Ducati, who signed him to ride for Pramac in 2019 at the start of 2018 before he’d won that year’s Moto2 crown.

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