"I can't believe how far Ducati are ahead," one top MotoGP engineer told me shortly before I travelled to yesterday's 2023 Ducati launch. "The power they can put down out of corners is insane – if they had a Marc Márquez or a Fabio Quartararo on that bike we wouldn't see which way they went."
That's how it is in MotoGP right now.
We all know Ducati has more horsepower than everyone else. We also know that Pecco Bagnaia's 2022 championship came from a chassis that now turns corners as well as the engine goes down straights. Something else we all know is that Ducati has eight bikes on the grid, so it gets huge amounts of data to fine-tune its Desmosedicis.
But perhaps Ducati's biggest advantage of them all – because it underpins all the above – is something very new that most people don't know or talk about: computer modelling and simulation.
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