Jack Miller will drive for the Ducati factory team in 2021. Two-year contracts are in MotoGP common, but the Australians were only offered a one-year contract by the Italians for the following year. “Clearly, I’d rather have a two-year contract, but Ducati seems to be betting mostly on one-year contracts with racers,” Miller said recently.
Z Andreo Dovizioso supposed to Ducati extended for the 2021/22 season as well, and at Miller they left Ducati with a few more open options for the future. "In an ideal world, it wouldn't be bad for teams to have a little more opportunity to adapt to the situation," is for Moto.it said Ducati sports director Paolo ciabatti.
“In this particular case, we chose Miller without seeing him in the race this year. He is the driver for the future, but he has yet to confirm his progress this year. Unfortunately, if we signed with him for two years today, that would not be correct, ” explanation sports director of Ducati: "It simply came to our notice then. He understands the situation and knows that if he proves himself, he will get a place in the factory team in 2022. As a company, we also had to protect ourselves a bit, because we had to decide on everything before the season even started. ”
If the 2020 season started completely normally, it would Ducati po Mugello in Barcelona started to deal with the selection of racers for the 2021 season. So it was last year when Danilo Petrucci after a glorious home win at Mugello extended another season. Since there have been a lot of shifts in the racers market despite the off-season, it is Ducati had to take action even before the first race.
"Miller has improved a lot in recent years, especially in the second half of the 2019 season, so we thought maybe he was the right one for us," he said Ciabatta: “We expect it to get even better. We had to choose between Danilo and Jack. It wasn't easy, but we had the feeling that Miller had more potential and could improve a lot. "
