In 2024 the Borgo Panigale company will debut with a prototype in the Italian motocross championship, relying on the nine-time world champion as luxury test rider and Alessandro Lupino as rider. Domenicali: “A project to expand our presence towards new worlds”
From asphalt to earth: the Ducati in fact he announces his entry into motocrossrelying on the nine-time world champion Tony Cairoli how to test luxury that leads this brand new project. The Borgo Panigale company, which has been working for two years on a prototype that will debut next season in the Italian Motocross Championship, is launching a multi-year project that will see the birth of a complete range of off-road engines and models. They will become part of a family of knobby motorcycles branded Ducati. The news of the project, which has been in the air for a while, was made official with a press release.
the contribution of cairoli
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To face the new adventure, Ducati has linked itself to nine-time Motocross world champion Antonio Cairoli: a perfect figure, in terms of talent, speed and experience, to offer fundamental support. The Sicilian champion just yesterday announced his farewell to Ktm, to which he had been linked since 2010. “I am happy to become part of the Ducati universe and to undertake this exciting new adventure, in an all-Italian project – the words of Cairoli – Giving my contribution to the development of the Borgo Panigale cross bike is a dream and also a source of deep pride.”
Sundays
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As Claudio Domenicali, CEO of Ducati Motor Holding: “I am proud to announce Ducati’s entry into Motocross, a completely new world for us, but where we want to bring our talent in the design of lightweight motorcycles, with excellent components and high performance and which can excite more and more motorcyclists. We have decided to collaborate with a champion like Tony Cairoli who will help make Ducati a company capable of offer enthusiasts high performance products even off-road, as we have shown we can do on asphalt. This project confirms our desire to expand our presence towards new worlds, speak to new motorcyclists and therefore grow the Ducatisti community.”
with maddii racing
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Ducati has also tightened a multi-year agreement with Maddii Racingone of the most experienced teams in the Motocross paddock, which will become the reference structure for MX racing activities, and will take part in the 2024 Italian Motocross Championship with Alessandro Lupinoeight-time Italian Champion and winner of the 2021 Motocross of Nations. The focus of the project offroad by Ducati is a combination of research, top components and engines characterized by a very broad delivery curve, obtained thanks to theuse of the Desmodromic system, used on all the sports bikes of the Borgo Panigale company starting from the MotoGP. The entry into specialist off-road racing represents a very important strategic choice for Ducati which confirms its desire to expand its presence into unexplored terrain to date.
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