Ducati Corse boss Gigi Dall'igna insists that the MotoGP is taking a backwards step with its ban on winglets for the 2017 season. MotoGP's Grand Prix Commission announced the ban last year on safety grounds: although they helped to keep the front end of the bike down under acceleration, there...

Ducati Corse general manager Gigi Dall'Igna wants closer ties with two-time MotoGP champion and test rider Casey Stoner in 2017.Stoner, who won MotoGP titles with Ducati in 2007 and Honda in '11 retired at the end of the '12 season, then spent three years as a Honda test rider. In...

Ducati has a clear idea on how to improve its MotoGP bike for new rider Jorge Lorenzo after his first test, general manager Gigi Dall'Igna believes.Less than 36 hours after winning his final race for Yamaha, 2017 recruit Lorenzo started testing with Ducati at Valencia last Tuesday morning. The two-day...

Valentino Rossi believes it would be "very stupid" to count Jorge Lorenzo out of MotoGP title contention in 2017, when he moves from Yamaha to Ducati.After nine years with Yamaha, and seven seasons as Rossi's teammate, Lorenzo signed off with victory in the 2016 season finale at Valencia on Sunday....

Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo says he will learn from a tough final season with Yamaha, in which "everything went wrong" after the first third of the campaign.Lorenzo announced his 2017 move to Ducati before the first European race of the year at Jerez in April, and led the championship...

Honda's racing executive vice president Shuhei Nakamoto says his experience of aerodynamic development in Formula 1 was a big part of wanting winglets banned in MotoGP.Between stints with Honda's motorcycle program, Nakamoto spent seven years with its works F1 team, and had risen to become technical director by the time...

Ducati team manager Gigi Dall'Igna believes the ban on winglets in MotoGP is an "unsporting" attempt by its rivals to deny it an advantage.The Italian squad was the first to begin experimenting with aerodynamic appendages on its bikes' front-ends during 2015, and the trend spread to the point where all...

Ducati does not believe it will have to change its MotoGP Desmosedici too much for Jorge Lorenzo, when the three-time champion arrives from Yamaha.While Ducati's older challengers attracted a reputation for being tough to ride, it has made major progress in recent years, under the leadership of Gigi Dall'Igna, who...

Valentino Rossi expects Jorge Lorenzo will fare better than he did at Ducati when he leaves Yamaha for the Italian MotoGP team in 2017.Rossi's two years with Ducati in 2010 and '11 were the worst of his MotoGP career, as he failed to gel with the Desmosedici and claimed just...

Yamaha did not make Jorge Lorenzo "feel good," reckons Ducati MotoGP team manager Gigi Dall'Igna.Lorenzo has insisted his decision to leave Yamaha after nine seasons and join Ducati next year is motivated purely by a need for new challenges. The reigning world champion had often expressed a desire to spend...