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How Ducati can channel Stoner with its latest MotoGP Aussie

OPINION: Australians on Ducatis is an iconic partnership, the marque's last one yielding its sole MotoGP crown to date. But its latest Aussie union with the often underestimated Jack Miller can end this drought

Australians on factory red Ducati MotoGP bikes conjure up iconic images of Casey Stoner's triumphs with the marque from 2007-2010 (which included Ducati's only MotoGP riders' title to date), and Troy Bayliss' famous Valencia victory as a stand-in at the 2006 Valencia Grand Prix (alongside his three World Superbike championship wins in red).

That Jack Miller's #43 is decorated in the Australian flag on the front of the factory Ducati he will ride in 2021 only brings those iconic images flooding back.

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