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Ducati chief Dall'Igna to host MotoGP tech mega-debriefs in 2016

Ducati Corse chief Gigi Dall'Igna will host a giant briefing of around 20 technicians from the four teams backed by the Bologna factory after every practice, qualifying and race day at MotoGP rounds in 2016, BSN has exclusively learned.

The extraordinary assembly could take up to two or three hours per day, as data is shared between the Ducati Corse factory squad, and the Pramac, Avintia and Aspar supported teams. A total of eight of the Desmodromic Ducatis will fill around a third of the MotoGP grid next year.

The scale of Ducati's ambitions are breathtaking by MotoGP standards, but factory personnel are confident that they can keep on top of the manufacturing, logistics and communication challenges involved in supplying all their riders with competitive machinery. As revealed earlier to BSN, the Ducati master plan will involve the factory in manufacturing around 85 of their 1000cc V4 engines next year - an almost industrial-scale enterprise by MotoGP standards.

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"We have come a long way from where we were in 2013, mainly thanks to Gigi and the way we are working now," Ducati Corse's sporting director Paolo Ciabatti told us at Valencia. "New teams have come and asked us for our bikes. It is a sign that Ducati is considered to be a competitive package.

"On the one side we are doing this because it brings more money into Ducati Corse, but that's not the only reason - there would be easier ways of just making money. We don't have Moto2 or Moto3 teams, but having three supported or satellite teams in MotoGP gives you the opportunity to put riders who are not ready for the factory team into teams linked to Ducati, and bring them into the Ducati family."

Scott Redding will shift allegiance from a MarcVDS Honda in 2016 to an Octo Pramac Ducati, but his contract is with Ducati Corse - a sign of the potential that the factory sees in the British 22-year-old.

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