A special stamp presented to celebrate Ducati's conquest of the 2022 MotoGP world title

Ducati is to honour its amazing 2022 racing season, which saw it triumph in the MotoGP World Championship winning the Riders', Teams' and Manufacturers' titles, with a stamp intended to become a collector's item for all Ducatisti.

Officially issued today, 9 June 2023, by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, the stamp was presented during a press conference in the hospitality unit of the Ducati Lenovo Team, which is getting ready to participate in the Italian Grand Prix at the Mugello circuit, with the extraordinary support of the fans cheering on their champions from the Ducati Grandstand at the Correntaio curve.

The traditional postmark ceremony was attended by Luigi Dall'Igna, General Manager of Ducati Corse, Fausta Bergamotto, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Giovanni Machetti, Head of Philately at Poste Italiane, and Matteo Taglienti, Head of Mint and Philately of the Italian State Printing Office and Mint.

Luigi Dall'Igna, Ducati Corse General Manager said: “2022 was a year full of emotion and success. We demonstrated the quality and expertise of a team of people who, with their everyday work and commitment, managed to take Ducati and Italy to the top of the premier two-wheeled World Championship. Honouring these sporting results with a special stamp issued by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy gives us great pride and satisfaction".

Undersecretary of State Fausta Bergamotto explained: “With this stamp, as Undersecretary of State also responsible for Philately and in collaboration with Minister Adolfo Urso, I felt it my duty to pay homage to Ducati’s sporting achievements. Today's issue intends to celebrate a legend well present in the hearts of millions of Italians and also wishes to testify the affinity and gratitude of the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy towards a reality that has managed to become a symbol of Italian know-how, an inimitable combination of creativity and research".

The image shown in the illustration is a drawing of the Desmosedici GP22 ridden by Francesco Bagnaia in the tones of the Italian flag, created by the Centro Stile Ducati. Bagnaia, who took the world title after a historic comeback with a total of seven victories, ten podiums and five pole positions, thanks to this triumph became the first Italian rider to win the riders' title in MotoGP on an Italian bike and made Ducati the only European motorcycle manufacturer to have won the World Championship in the premier class for the second time. With this victory, Ducati has taken Made in Italy excellence to the top of the world’s most important motorcycle racing championship thanks to a unique combination of talent, passion and expertise.

The definitive stamp dedicated to the Ducati victory is part of a "Sport" thematic series and relates to the value of the A Zone 3 (Oceania) rate of €5.50, with a circulation of 500,024 copies.

For the occasion, a tri-fold A4 format philatelic folder has also been created, containing a quatrain, a single stamp, a postmarked and franked postcard, a philatelic card and a first-day issue cover, in addition to the illustrative bulletin.

The folder will be available for purchase at the price of €63 at approximately 500 post offices with Philatelic counters, in the 10 Philately spaces and on the Poste Italiane website.

At the end of the year, the stamp dedicated to the Ducati victory will become part of the state's collectible stamps book for 2023, which compiles all the stamps issued by the Italian state to celebrate its excellence.