Ducati has currently the most competitive bike in MotoGP, but naturally the development keeps going on – in a world in which the rivals are not static and try everything to close the gap. The Desmosedici GP will have new parts for 2024 and Ducati Corse’s general manager, Gigi Dall’Igna, admitted that he expects a bigger difference between GP24 and GP23.
The Italian engineer stressed that there are still aspects to improve: ‘For example, the KTM was better than our bike for the start in the beginning of the season. There were some areas we could improve and we did it. But for sure there are some others where we have to work a little bit during the winter to improve – because for sure our competitors will improve during the winter and, above all, during the next season’.
Despite noting that Ducati doesn’t want to introduce too many evolutions at the same time, Dall’Igna believes that the 2024 bike will be more different than this year’s one: ‘The problem is that we don’t have a lot of tests during the winter to set-up properly all the new parts that we would like to use. We did a mistake at the beginning of 2021 because we tried to put too many developments on the bike. We learned from that lesson and so we don’t want to put too many evolutions on the bike. This year we do something more, so I think for the next season the difference bewtween the factory bikes and the previous year bike will be a little bit higher. But we will see’.