Dall'Igna praises Marquez after Ducati holds MotoGP title gap

Aprilia had the pace at Mandalika, but Ducati came away with the championship deficit unchanged — and that's the part Dall'Igna is focused on. His praise for Marquez reads less as celebration and less as relief, and more as a signal that Ducati views surviving a bad weekend without losing ground as a meaningful result in itself. The 'may the best man win' framing is notable: it acknowledges the fight is genuinely open while projecting confidence that Ducati's best is good enough. When a team principal calls a round where a rival dominated a cleared obstacle, the championship arithmetic is clearly tight enough that damage limitation counts as a win.