Ducati's management and riders should be relishing the next two weekends as a shoo-in for two wins and two more podiums at the track where they have won for the last four years.

Andrea Dovizioso has two wins, Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Iannone one each. With the talent of Jack Miller, Brno podium man Johann Zarco and Danilo Petrucci also on the firm, it should be walk in the park.

But all is not well in the Bologna camp. Dovizioso is the lead Ducati and is already more than a race win off inxperienced championship leader Fabio Quartararo. It has been said many times that had Marc Marquez not been around, the Italian would have been world cnampion. This, then, should have been the year...

The problem, for the experienced Ducati men it seems, is the new profile Michelin tyres. The way Dovizioso, Miller and Petrucci have their Desmosedicis setup doesn't work with the hoops and no amount of riding style change is helping. "The bike is not that different, the GP19 and 20 are very similar. It's not the point, it's too easy to be that The rear tyre for sure pushes the front and not just pushing, working in a different way. We have to change that and it's not that easy," explained Dovizioso.

"I thought that with a bit of difference in my style I could improve a lot the situation, but it's not like this and I think I need more help from the setup.

"I'm not that kind of rider that I try to use excuses, but if you check my data I always have the front locked. This means I'm trying to put my bike on the limit at that point and I'm losing a tenth in the braking, every braking. We have to go in a different way.

"I think our limit was we followed what we did in the last two years because it worked, and it didn't work. This moment the situation is not clear and is the reason I'm slow.

"And when you have the kind of race where the rear is really bad for everybody, if you are slow in the braking, in the middle of the corners, you will finish 11th."

At Brno, Zarco finished third after scoring pole on the GP19, while Bagnaia was on course for a second at the Andalusian GP before a mechanical issue struck his GP20.

This doesn't affect the likes of Pecco Bagnaia and Zarco as they don't have much reference as to how the bike used to behave on the smaller tyres.

If you look at Danilo, Jackand me, we have a lot of experience with this bike and we have more or less the same problem. Pecco and Zarco have less experience, and I think they went in a different direction because they didn't have the experience to follow what was good to do for Ducati in the last three years."

Dovizoso recognises this weekend and next at the same track should be relatively easy wins but that won't be the case.

"Ducati has achieved four successes at the Red Bull Ring in the last four years, now we have to think that our priority is to regain the feeling with the Desmosedici GP bike.

“It is in difficult times like this that we have to stick together, and I see the next race in Austria as a good opportunity. We have to keep calm and work as we've always done."