Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicale has branded Kawasaki’s Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes ‘unsporting’ after the pair denied Chaz Davies second place in the World Superbike title chase in Qatar.

Rea allowed Sykes to pass him on the line to bag second in the race and stay ahead of Davies in the championship points table, a move that Domenicale has deemed ‘questionable’ in a statement about the weekend’s racing activities as a whole

“This weekend was made more extraordinary for the two wins in Qatar of Chaz Davies and his Panigale R Superbike,” he said.

“With these, he took six consecutive wins, which allowed Chaz to come within a hair of second place in the championship, which he missed by only two points because of the questionable and certainly unsportsmanlike behaviour of his adversaries in the final laps of the race on Sunday.”