Gigi Dall’Igna is one of the most renowned leaders in MotoGP. Since becoming the general director of Ducati Corse, he has been instrumental in the strong progress of the Borgo Panigale manufacturer, which now boasts the benchmark bike in the paddock. The paradigm shifted with Dall’Igna’s projects, introducing innovations that became essential.
Now that he’s reached the top, the engineer still has challenges with Ducati, as he highlighted on the PecinoGP YouTube channel: ‘The challenge is to stay where we are because one thing is to win, and another is to continue winning, to keep being protagonists in the most difficult motorcycle championships – which are MotoGP and Superbike. Not for two years, but for five or six years’.
What Dall’Igna rejects at this moment is moving to another manufacturer: ‘No, I don’t think so. I worked very hard to get here, to achieve the results we’ve achieved together, and now it would be nice to try to do something less competitive. I can’t wait, in life, to be able to finish last in something [laughs]’.
In any case, when asked if he had been approached by Ducati’s rivals over the years, the Italian confirmed: ‘Yes, I would be false if I said no. There have been several contacts, but in the end, I always believed that Ducati was the best factory I worked with’.