In this issue: PANIGALE V4 SUPERLEGGERA V4 FABIO TAGLIONI NEW MONSTER SUPERMOTO ITALIANE - APRIL 2020 MONDODUCATI DOSSIER In this issue: PANIGALE V4 04 DUCATI SUPERLEGGERA V4 22 FABIO TAGLIONI 36 Ducati financial report 52 NEW DUCATI SCRAMBLER 56 DANILO PETRUCCI 64 ANDREA DOVIZIOSO 68 APRIL 2020 Redazione: Hanno collaborato: Franco Bartoli Stefano Cordara SUPERMOTO ITALIANE [email protected] Giuliano Musi Registrata presso Marco Rainero Giorgio Tedioli il tribunale di Firenze con [email protected] il n° 5554 il 20/02/2007 Editore: FBA - Via U. Rattazzi, 2/E/1 Direttore Responsabile: 50136 Firenze Carlo Bartoli [email protected] 2 MD DOSSIER APRIL 2020 APRIL 2020 MD DOSSIER 3 by Stefano Cordara DUCATI PANIGALE V4 MY 2020 4 MD DOSSIER APRIL 2020 APRIL 2020 MD DOSSIER 5 The new Panigale V4 has the exorbitant performance of the previous version, but it is now easier. This is how the new Ducati aims to be the superbike benchmark. he 2020 version of the Pani- to close corners and ensure riders enjoy gale V4 boosts performance more confident throttle control. even further and takes track The Panigale V4 is now equipped with con- riding to the next level for tent taken from the V4 R. For example, the amateurs and pros alike. A aerodynamic package provides enhanced air- Tseries of refinements make for an easier, flow protection and improves overall vehicle more user-friendly, less fatiguing ride while stability, enhancing confidence. simultaneously making the bike faster not The Front Frame, instead, modifies stiffness just on individual laps but over entire timed to give better front-end ‘feel’ at extreme lean sessions. angles. What’s more, the bike includes DTC Ducati and Ducati Corse engineers have and DQS up/down EVO 2 strategies. crunched the feedback/data numbers from Thanks to a new ‘predictive’ control strat- customers all over the world and Superbike egy, Ducati Traction Control (DTC) EVO World Championship events. Their analysis 2 significantly improves out-of-the-corner has led to a series of aerodynamic, chassis, power control; Ducati Quick Shift up/down electronic control and Ride by Wire mapping (DQS) EVO 2, instead, shortens up-shift changes: designed to increase stability and times, allowing sportier high-rev gear shifts turn-in speed, these changes make it easier (over 10,000 rpm) and boosting shift stability 6 MD DOSSIER APRIL 2020 APRIL 2020 MD DOSSIER 7 during aggressive accelera- gets to the apex faster, soaks Stradale: a MotoGP-derived tion and cornering. up any pits or ripples more 90° V4 with Desmodro- The Panigale V4 MY2020 response. The new torque minimise stability loss during To hone bike balance effectively and behaves more mic timing, a one-of-a-kind features new specially devel- delivery control strategy lets acceleration. throughout the ride, chang- neutrally out of the bend. engine with a counter-rotat- oped Ride by Wire sys- the rider stabilise more eas- The Panigale V4 has a lat- es to the suspension set-up For 2020, the bike features ing crankshaft and Twin Pulse tem mappings with several ily on the desired throttle est-generation electronics have focused on redefining specially-developed Ride by firing order. torque delivery control set- aperture through and out of package. Based on a 6-axis suspension stiffness, center Wire system mappings with The engine can deliver tings. Track-dedicated RbW the corners. inertial platform, it features of gravity height and chain several torque delivery con- 214 hp at 13,000 rpm and a mapping aligns rider demand Additionally, linearization of controls designed to handle force angle. trol logics. torque of 12.6 kgm at 10,000 with delivered torque more torque curves in gears I, II every aspect of the ride. The outcome: a bike that’s Powering the Panigale V4 rpm, making for extremely closely, resulting in smoother, and III varies according to The S version comes with easier to lay into corners, is the 1103 cc Desmosedici satisfying road riding. more predictable throttle the selected Power Mode to Öhlins event-based elec- 8 MD DOSSIER APRIL 2020 APRIL 2020 MD DOSSIER 9 10 MD DOSSIER APRIL 2020 APRIL 2020 MD DOSSIER 11 tronic control; this uses the Plexiglas screen, nose fair- mm per side) in the arm- second-generation Öhlins ing and larger lateral fairings; shield zone to reduce arm Smart EC (Electronic Con- More efficient lateral vents and shoulder-induced drag trol) system that exploits the for radiator through-air; Aer- on the straights. full potential of the inertial ofoils. The lateral fairings have platform. The new Plexiglas screen been widened considerably Co-developed by Ducati - higher and more angled - (+38 mm per side) with the air through-speeds on water gale V4 aerofoils are even improved thanks to the Corse and the Ducati Style provides better airflow pro- dual aim of reducing on-rider and oil radiators by 6% and more efficient that those cur- insertion of the longitudi- Center, the Panigale V4 tection for riders, especially airflow impact and maximis- 16% respectively. rently employed in MotoGP. nally arranged strake and the MY2020 aerodynamics pack- in the helmet and upper ing aerofoil efficiency. The aerofoils take their cue These monoplane single- winglet which ‘insulates’ the age now mirrors that of the shoulder areas. On the sides, the stylish from those on the GP16, element foils have a trapezoi- airflow over its surfaces. Panigale V4 R. The screen works in con- air vents of the Panigale V4 designed before regulations dal layout and a profile that To ensure the required The Panigale V4 aerody- cert with a new nose fairing have been replaced by more led to restrictions on foil tapers from root to tip. strength and stiffness, Pani- namics package includes: that is higher and wider (+15 efficient ones that increase shapes. Consequently, Pani- Foil performance has been gale V4 aerofoils are made 12 MD DOSSIER APRIL 2020 APRIL 2020 MD DOSSIER 13 of fibreglass-reinforced ther- increase in steering torque latter features a special moplastic. that stems from the height- suspension set-up with a Working in concert with ened stability - lower lap higher center of gravity, an the fairing design, the aero- times as it reduces electronic increased chain force angle foils increase overall down- control intervention, helping and improved use of suspen- force (+30 kg at 270 kph). riders keep the throttle open sion travel. Greater downforce reduc- longer and brake later, even Thanks to these modifica- es both front wheel ‘floating’ when cornering has already tions, the bike is easier to lay at high speed and the ten- begun. into the corner when you dency to wheel-up while giv- Major changes on the Pani- ease off the brakes, gets to ing a boost to stability during gale V4 MY 2020 chassis have the apex faster, soaks up any braking at the turn-in point seen the introduction of the pits or ripples more effec- and through the corner. Front Frame. tively and behaves more neu- This dynamic behaviour Built according to Ducati trally out of the corner. lets riders - against a small Corse specifications, the So the new Panigale hasn’t 14 MD DOSSIER APRIL 2020 APRIL 2020 MD DOSSIER 15 changed its soul, but it’s skills the more comfortable The new V4 probably lost undoubtedly softened up in you feel. some speed when changing the reactions it transmits to Because if a rider is used to direction, but it was so much the rider. riding “above the problems”, faster than the others that it Needless to say, it goes and can handle certain situ- could even afford to take a strong in an almost incon- ations, the amateur needs a small step back. the same way, giving you the the best braking of all, char- blunted the edges because siderate way and remains a bike that first of all reassures Also because you then feeling of being able to put acteristics that emerge in it is always agile, but less specialist bike from which him. The arrival of the new enjoy a precise bike that it where you want it; invit- every comparison and that “imprecise”, always furious in only a rider can get the most Aeropackage and the inter- tackles the delicate braking ing you, in the end, to push will probably emerge again acceleration, but better han- out of, but it’s a fact that ventions received from the and cornering phase with harder and harder. this time. dled by a throttle that, if it with today’s bike the more chassis go exactly in that more harmony and that, lap The Panigale V4 was and With the difference that has not yet reached the per- you go down with the riding direction. after lap, always responds in remains the most agile bike, today the Ducati V4 has fection of response of some 16 MD DOSSIER APRIL 2020 APRIL 2020 MD DOSSIER 17 18 MD DOSSIER APRIL 2020 APRIL 2020 MD DOSSIER 19 makes throttle management predictable, while the effect consistent performance lap competitors, has however whole chassis is more in tune The V4 also contributes softer and allows you to ride of the aerofoils is sensitive after lap. All this has been made enormous progress. with the rider. to the improvement of the better. not only at high speed, but achieved thanks to a better Everything is not yet per- In a nutshell, you feel the bike, thanks above all to new The new Panigale V4 finally stabilizes the bike in many collaboration between the fect, if you let go of the bike more in your hands throttle opening logics that does just that: it makes you situations.