WorldSBK Indonesia: Dall’Igna on Ducati double

Alvaro Bautista completed a long sought after double for Ducati on Sunday by clinching the WorldSBK title a week after Pecco Bagnaia did the deed in MotoGP.

Ducati were the great WorldSBK dominators at one time, and for a long time, but once again, to a great extent in MotoGP and a lesser one in WorldSBK, the Bolognese sorcerers are the manufacturer to beat.

Ducati Corse boss Gigi Dall’Igna and the whole Ducati company are not resting on their freshly awarded double layer laurels, despite having just won their first WorldSBK for 11 years to add to their long awaited return to MotoGP championship status. In short, they are bringing a new version of the bike Alvaro Bautista just used in full race trim to beat all comers in 2022.

“You always have to do something more, because also the others work and you don’t know what the others are doing,” Dall’Igna confirmed when asked if a new bike was necessary. “So if you want to stay on the top, every time you have to develop something new and you have to introduce some new concept, even if this could create some problems and some confusion.

“This is our job, try to improve without losing the way.”

With the Panigale V4R always containing a lot of MotoGP inspiration and outright tech transferring, Dall’Igna said that Ducati uses knowledge from one category to help another, in any case.

“For sure because we have only one philosophy,” he stated. “Everything that we can introduce in the MotoGP that can work here in Superbike. We develop it also for the Superbike but this is true also the vice versa. If you find something good in the Superbike, after that we try to introduce it on the MotoGP.”

Dall’Igna was once upon a time Aprilia racing boss, before being taken on by Ducati. Ultimately,