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Dall'Igna to Ducati as Director of Corse

And all power to his hand.


Let's hope we have a resurgent Ducati and a strong Suzuki. Not for the manufacturers but for rider opportunities.
 
Dr No
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And all power to his hand.


Let's hope we have a resurgent Ducati and a strong Suzuki. Not for the manufacturers but for rider opportunities.
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I am for the manufacturers. I would love to see Ducati or Suzuki win a championship again.
 
Excellent news....Ducati is getting a new lease on life....hopefully they can make things happen quickly for Cal!
 
Rossi and Burgess were Ducati's saviors though, weren't they?  Good luck to Dall"Igna, he's got a lot of work to do.
 
baturro
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Rossi and Burgess were Ducati's saviors though, weren't they?  Good luck to Dall"Igna, he's got a lot of work to do.
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 They don't and have never actually designed or built bikes though, they fettle them or suggest how they should operate in advance of them being designed and built.


 


If Dall'Igna has had a large role at Aprilia, then I would see getting him involved as a significant advance over handing over chassis design etc to Suter. If Suter just built the current chassis as was claimed then it was presumably a Presiozi design anyway, and he isn't there anymore even apart from the current design not working.    
 
Dall'Igna has been with Aprilia for 20 years. He worked on the 250s design as well, not just the superbikes. Expect priority to be given to a re-design of the engine cranks and heads to make it smaller and fit nicely in a brand new frame. Ducati could go pneumatic valves after all, if desmo cannot be made more compact. It will be revealing when we know if some other designers follow him, and who.
 
This will be great....in about 2020.   Do you think there will be gas, pistons, or valves?    
 
I personally look forward to powerful electric sport bikes! :)


Ducati's sponsor will decide by 2015, so improvements must show already in 2014. That's the bill.
 
I for one hope like crazy this guy comes in and does the deed.  Ducati is trying you have to give em that.  On that Ebike comment, I can't wait either but for a totally different series.  Nothing is like those v 4's, triples, twins, inlines, singles etc haha. 
 
Things aren't going to improve dramatically overnight, either he helps right the ship eventually or he will be chewed up and spit back out like so many before him. At least he has a decent track record, the WSBK Aprilia is pretty much a prototype in all but name.
 
I wouldnt expect anything big to happen soon. it takes time to implement changes probably wont see anything big until 2015. 
 
hayden69champ
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I wouldnt expect anything big to happen soon. it takes time to implement changes probably wont see anything big until 2015. 
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That is true, but sponsor want to see results....and not promises.....


....and after 5 years of promises they will have to start delivering so he will get his way and get thing moving quickly....
 
He is not what Ducati really needs. I can bet he won't do any better than the current situation. He does not have the expertise needed for the highest level of competition. Dall'igna does not know what Honda is. Audi should never fire Preziosi. They were mad. 


 


Taken from GPOne (badly translated):


 


Even Livio Suppo , Honda team principal but with a Ducati in the past, do you agree on this point: " inherit definitely a difficult situation - comments - I always said that it was wrong to deprive yourself of Preziosi, who is a genius of the two wheels . I know what he could do with a budget Pharaonic certainly not when I was working with him. When he arrived in Ducati Valentino results was similar to the current ones and Hayden also did some podiums in 2010, a sign that the bike was good . " On Dall'Igna not pronounced: "I can not do, never having worked with him, but I make all my best wishes. I'm still fond of Ducati . "

 
 
Best Indicater of future results, will be past performance. I don't hold much hope for Ducati, at least for the next few years.
 
gui22a
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He is not what Ducati really needs. I can bet he won't do any better than the current situation. He does not have the expertise needed for the highest level of competition. Dall'igna does not know what Honda is. Audi should never fire Preziosi. They were mad. 


 


Taken from GPOne (badly translated):


 


Even Livio Suppo , Honda team principal but with a Ducati in the past, do you agree on this point: " inherit definitely a difficult situation - comments - I always said that it was wrong to deprive yourself of Preziosi, who is a genius of the two wheels . I know what he could do with a budget Pharaonic certainly not when I was working with him. When he arrived in Ducati Valentino results was similar to the current ones and Hayden also did some podiums in 2010, a sign that the bike was good . " On Dall'Igna not pronounced: "I can not do, never having worked with him, but I make all my best wishes. I'm still fond of Ducati . "

 
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1) what "expertise for the highest level of competition" did Preziosi have when Ducati entered MotoGP?


2) Preziosi was badly treated, but he's not coming back. Gobmeier did exactly zero while at Ducati and has been replaced. Who - with a realistic chance of getting them - would you choose.
 
Dr No
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1) what "expertise for the highest level of competition" did Preziosi have when Ducati entered MotoGP?


2) Preziosi was badly treated, but he's not coming back. Gobmeier did exactly zero while at Ducati and has been replaced. Who - with a realistic chance of getting them - would you choose.
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A technical director or a general manager has to be much more than an engineer. Preziosi is not a dumb, he knows a lot about many things, specially in how to combine technologies (electronics) with mechanics. He is a very smart guy in all senses, we have a lot of sources saying that (Stoner, Hayden, Livio Suppo, even Rossi), and given Ducati (not Audi) financial budget to Corse, Preziosi was wring blood from a stone<span style="background-color:rgb(249,249,249);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;. Preziosi never had the chance to work with enough money (Stoner, Hayden, now Suppo confirming). 


 


Who is Gobmeir and what he has done for Ducati MotoGP against Honda/Yamaha?


1 - A man with the status of turning BMW SBK around. 2 - Nothing.


 


Who is Luigi Dall'igna and what he will do for Ducati MotoGP against Honda/Yamaha? 


1 - A man with the status of turning Aprilia SBK around. 2 - Nothing. 


 


Who would I choose?


 


In Audi's shoes I'd choose to leave. Honestly. 
 
Fair answer, Gui. I see your point better now.


 


I find it interesting that the comments re: Prezioni being missed at Ducati started coming coming out just before Gobmeier was <strike>sacked</strike> booted upstairs.


 


 


 


So now we'll have the eyebrows of Gigi combining with the receding hairline and appalling sideburns of Vittorio...
 
J4rn0
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I personally look forward to powerful electric sport bikes! :)


Ducati's sponsor will decide by 2015, so improvements must show already in 2014. That's the bill.
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So do I! I'm not so good with IC engines, but 'lectrics are my bag.


 


After my son totally destroyed the crankcases in our hotted-up Aprilia scoot, I seriously considered making it electric, but that was about 8 years ago and I was ahead of the curve. It would have cost more than a complete replacement engine. But now, a complete kit giving about 15HP is available for only a few hundred bux, including ESC, throttle, plug-points, etc. - just add batteries. If I can pick up a broken Chinese quad I might give it a go. Easy to fit in the back of the station-wagon and with an average 'run' of only a few km, it shoudl be a good platform to experiment on.


 


But, back to topic. Aprilia favour narrow-angle V's - I wonder if there has been enough of a change at the higher echelons of Ducati corporate to envision a change from an L4 to a 60deg V4? Or, as a compromise, retain the L4, but repackage it and drop the desmo for pneumo? It isn't just the heads that seem to make the engine big, but the way the gearbox is positioned - the Honda lump is short and squat because the gearbox clumps 'up' the side of the crankcases, rather than along the same axis as the lower cylinder, as in the Desmo.
 
The heads of the desmo are comparatively big -- I saw a scaled comparison with the Honda V4 once (sorry can't find it now) and it showed clearly even to the naked eye. Honda went to the extent of making asymmetric valve trains with the exhaust train a little bit lower than intake, just to gain a few millimiters. to the front and rear. If every mm counts, desmo could be an obstacle now with the twin spar chassis as it is hardly possible to make it smaller because it needs big gears etc. that are not needed with pneumatic.
 

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