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DUCATI GOES MUSCULAR

Winning the MotoGP rider, team and manufacturer titles, enjoying huge sales world-wide and announcing faster, more muscular models for 2023, Ducati is more successful than ever.

Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnia is the company’s second MotoGP champion, 15 long years after its first, Australian Casey Stoner. Despite often having the most bikes on the grid and the most highly prized riders, Ducati struggled for success in the rider’s championship until 2022, and even then it didn’t look good, Bagnia being forced to make the biggest comeback in MotoGP history after being 91 points down on Frenchman Fabio Quartararo mid-season.

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