Ducati Corse head honcho Paolo Ciabatti announced at Assen his factory would provide up to four production bikes using the new spec-ECU.

This will add to the four engines being made available by Yamaha and five machines from Honda in 2014, and will give the works team a lot more feedback in terms of trying to sort out the myriad problems they have with the GP13.

“Since the new rules came out for next year, where it is actually possible for a full MotoGP bike to run in what would have been the CRT class – using the single ECU and single software – we are considering to make available the 2013 bike with this package," said Ciabatti.

“It has an advantage in terms of fuel; they will have 24 litres while the full MSMA MotoGP entries will have only 20, 12 engines instead of five and no frozen development for the engines.

“We think it could be an interesting package for some of the private or satellite teams and we are working on this plan. Ideally, we think we will make four available. We are discussing with some teams but nothing has been decided yet.”