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 Our commitment to the World Superbike Championship is unchanged. We can see the positive effect of the development in the Superbike machine directly in our Ducati production bikes. It’s clearly visible in the 999R and the 749R we have produced for this year and therefore we continue to use racing as the best ‘dyno’ to test and check the development and evolution of all the Superbike family. Once again considerable development work has been carried out with our technical partner, Shell Advance, to improve the performance of the bike.
In particular with this year’s Ducati 999F04, we can find a lot of detail improvement, especially with internal modifications that further improve the global performance of the engine. Really the bike is the same but there are a lot of tiny modifications, which are the normal development of a bike that has already proved to be a winning concept last year. It didn’t need any major changes to continue to improve its performance.
We are happy with the level of performance we achieved during winter tests with our new tyre partner and this new configuration, together with the big names that are the newcomers in this year’s championship, will surely produce some exciting and competitive racing.
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