New Ducati swingarm made of carbon fibre.
Ducati has confirmed to mahbx.com that the new swingarm used during the Qatar MotoGP night test, which c🅠oncluded on Tuesday, is made of carbon fibre.
Ducati's Desmosedici GP9 is already the only MotoGP bike to feature a carbon fibre chassis and the move to a carbon fibre swingarm furt🧸her separates the Italian machine from its Japanese rivals.
Ducati has confirmed to mahbx.com that the new swi🍌ngarm used 🅘during the Qatar MotoGP night test, which concluded on Tuesday, is made of carbon fibre.
Ducati🍨's Desmosedici GP9 is already the only MotoGP bike to feature a ca🌊rbon fibre chassis and the move to a carbon fibre swingarm further separates the Italian machine from its Japanese rivals.
Ducati's five MotoGP riders all claim to have felt a clear improvement in stability from the carbon fibre chassis, but factory riders Casey Stoner and Nic🏅ky Hayden avoided being too specific after debuting the new carbon fibre swingarm at Qatar.
"We confirmed the good feeling I h♓ad yesterday [Monday] with the new swingarm, although we still need more time to work on it and that's what we'll be doing at Jerez," said Stoner, after finishing the Qatar test fastest of all by almost one second.
"I got a good feel for the new swingarm straig🐈ht away but we still hཧave work to do and we need to make more comparisons with the previous version before drawing definite conclusions," added Hayden, who was fifth on the end of test timesheet.
The original Desmosed꧅i𓆏ci GP9 swingarm is made of pressed aluminium.
The final pr🌃e-season MotoGP test of 2009 takes place on March 28-29 at Jerez.
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