"The Ducati still demands too much physical strength, we will find a role on the team for Stoner"
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Ductalk: What's Up In The World Of Ducati
Ducati News Roundup Curated by Vicki Smith for Ducati.net |
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"The Ducati still demands too much physical strength, we will find a role on the team for Stoner"
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A possible Moto3 project is on Ducati's radar, its sporting director Paolo Ciabatti says
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"We know we're capable of fighting for wins. We must fix this before the end of the season… We will have more opportunities and hopefully we will not make any mistakes."
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Ducati will have eight bikes on the MotoGP grid in 2016 and 2017
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Ducati found itself under the spotlight quite a lot lately, thanks to the improvements shown on track on one hand, because it became the latest target of the Honda’s rage on the other. The Japanese Constructor is making a common front against the Italian Factory, accused of having betrayed the spirit of the Open rules . As if the situation were not intricate enough, Dorna, out of the blue, came out with a disconcerting hypothesis: another (it would be the third option for the same class) set of rules, a Factory 2 new option. In case an Open bike becomes too much competitive and achieves multiple podiums or a victory, it would be considered a “Factory 2” bike and therefore deprived of one litre and half of fuel capacity and of three engines.
Paolo Ciabatti, Ducati MotoGP Project Director, defends the Italian Constructor’s choices. “ We never kept either our decision or our reasons secret – spiega – The actual regulations offer two options and we chose the least restrictive for us considering the work we need to do”.
You have been accused of going against the cutting-costs’ Open aim.
Factory 2 - How are they even going to implement it? Do motors before you got three 3rd place's count? It's like they came up with this plan over a three martini lunch...
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The MotoGP World Championship found itself “hostage” of the Spanish riders, something obvious for a long time, but yesterday to raise the issue was the number one of Dorna. “Maybe it is the time to put a limit on the maximum number of riders of the same nationality in each category” he suggested, worried about the chance that an Iberian championship could have little appeal in the rest of the world. “It is a difficult problem, so the solution can't be easy” thinks Paolo Ciabatti, this year Ducati MotoGP Project Director, but until the last year “on the other side of the fence” as the Superbike Director .
Read more: http://www.gpone.com/en/2013051810247/La-MotoGP-ha-bisogno-di-nuovi-Paesi.html#ixzz2TkYxSwvM
Interesting problem. So how would this work? Spain would train and turn out the world's GP Racers? (Stoner came thru the Spanish training system)
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Although he knows that the bike needs a lot of work to be competitive, Ducati MotoGP boss Paolo Ciabatti doesn’t think that a total clean-sheet redesign is needed for the GP13
The notion that a motorcycle racer would ask for less power goes against everything we know. ‘There is no substitute for cubic inches’ has long been the popular wisdom, but the recent history of Ducati Corse tells a different story. The company, to this point, has been concerned with only one thing, making massive amounts of horsepower, but that has proven to be problematic. Having a motorcycle with unlimited power is a good idea for chasing a land speed record, but not for going around corners, which the new management of Ducati has discovered as they try to work their way back into a competitive position with Yamaha and Honda.
Read more: http://www.sportrider.com/news/146_13020_ducati_motogp_boss_ciabatti_looking_to_tame_desmosedici/viewall.html#ixzz2LYBaScRv