The crucial role of Gigi Dall’Igna has b♊een transcribed by s𝓰everal key figures from within Ducati.

The Italian manufacturer has dominated MotoGP for three years, finishing 2024 with the top four highest-placed riders inꦐ the standings.

Ducati are expected🐓 to be the protagonis💯ts this year too, particularly with Marc Marquez making the step up from Gresini to the official garage.

But their tr🐓ue star might be general manager and aerodynamics extrꦆaordinaire Dall’Igna.

"For me, the key point of Ducati was the incorporation of Gigi Dall'Igna,ও🥃" Marquez told .

"I woul😼d define Gigi Dall'Igna as a rider𝐆. He has a 100% rider mentality.

“When he doesn't win, he gets angry. He has tha🌸t ambiꦐtion that is necessary in the world of competition.

“If🤪 he was 20 or 30 years younger and he was a rider he wꦫould be one of those riders you would fear on the track.”

Loris C🍸apirossiꦜ added: "Now all the riders want to ride with Ducati.”

Two-time World Superbikes champion Alvaro 𒅌Bautista praised Dall’Igna: "I think that's the se♑cret.

“A good engineer who listens to the riders, who knows how to work not only by looking at data, but by interpreting the d🍌ata along with the rider’s comments.

"He made Duca𓆏ti go from being a difficult bike, that nobody wanted to go, that everyone said 'Ducati... not that, not that', to these last years, where it is the bike that everyone wants.”

Jorge Martin won the 2024 MotoGP title with Pramac, thওe Ducati satellite team who have switched to Yamaha for this year.

"It all started at Gigi,” Martin said.

“💎It was when they made the𒅌 bike so competitive. Gigi put together so many bikes on the track with very talented new riders, so everything has been a bomb.”

Dall’Igna had his say: "I have alwaಞ💛ys thought that aerodynamics had been neglected a lot in motorcycle racing.

“But I must say that here I have found the ri𝓡ght people to be able to address the issues of aerodynamics on the bike, which are much more complicated compared to a car."

Ducati w♚ill face new challenges this year, with a reduced presence on the🌺 MotoGP grid from eight to six bikes.

They have also reduced the quantity of factory bikes from four to three (for Marqꦐuez, Pecco Bagnaia and VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio).

Wi🌞thout Pramac anymore, VR46 take over as Ducati’s key satellite team. They will retain Gresini too.