MotoGP's first pre-season tests at Sepang had every factory using ground-effect aerodynamics for the first time. But Ducati's aero is still the best – good enough to put Luca Marini on top aboard a GP22
Serious MotoGP downforce aerodynamics first appeared in 2016, to reduce wheelies and thereby increase acceleration, by increasing load on the front end.
"If you look at the data you can easily understand that wheelies are one of the main problems in MotoGP, so if you want to improve your lap times you have to do something in order to reduce wheelies," Ducati engineer Gigi Dall'Igna told me last year. "At some tracks like Jerez the horsepower of the engine means nothing, but with wings you can start to use the power."
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