From next season the GP Commission outlawed the device designed by Ducati to regulate the front part of the racing bike with 5 to 1 votes. Borgo Panigale
Paolo Ianieri
March 22, 2022 – 13:17
Ducati has lost its battle over the front lowering unit introduced earlier this season. As it was in the air, during the last meeting held by the GP Commission in Mandalika, home of the Indonesian GP won by Miguel Oliveira, Ducati found itself facing the other five manufacturers taking part in the World Championship, which made a wall compact against the latest technical innovation devised by Gigi Dall’Igna’s men. A perfectly legal innovation from a technical point of view, but which the other manufacturers, once again appearing late and forced to chase Borgo Panigale, have countered by opposing issues of safety and excessive cost increases. Topics that in recent years have often repeated themselves in the face of the creativity of the men in red.
ducati isolated
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The fact is that, with a position of 5 against 1 in MSMA, the association that groups the manufacturers, and no possibility of finding a mediation, even in the GP Commission Ducati has found no allies, with the members of the International Federation, of the Irta – the association of the teams -, and Dorna who voted for the ban on using, starting from 2023, a system that modifies the front height of the motorcycle in motion, while instead reiterated the possibility of continuing to use the holeshot system at the start.
the text of the decision
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These are the main parts of the press release: the GP Commission, composed of Carmelo Ezpeleta (Dorna, President), Paul Duparc (FIM), Herve Poncharal (IRTA), Biense Bierma (MSMA), assisted by Jorge Viegas (FIM President), Carlos Ezpeleta (Dorna), Mike Trimby (IRTA, Secretary of the meeting) and Corrado Cecchinelli (Director of Technology) in an online meeting on March 18, 2022, have decided to ban, from the 2023 season, to prevent further performance improvements and cost increases. development, the use of any device that modifies or adjusts the height of the front part of the motorcycle while riding “.
March 22, 2022 – 13:17
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