Ducati MotoGP boss Paolo Ciabatti has given some clues as to what he expects will change to the Desmosedici that Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso will campaign next year and also said some large improvements will come in the second half of 2014.

The former World Superbike supremo admits the factory needs to address the fundamental front-end problems the current bike faces and believes that a new engine and where it should sit in the frame are key.

“Obviously we still have this under-steering problem, and probably to solve that we need to work a little bit harder in terms of engine design and position of engine in the frame. It’s not up to me to say exactly what we should do. We’re both working on the new bike, the GP15 for next year, but we will bring also a big improvement on the GP14 in the second part of the season,” said Ciabatti.