VOLUME 57 ISSUE 20 MAY 19, 2020 P71
That's a hugely important
bike, too, in Ducati's history,
first real production street
MotoGP bike.
Yes. It was really MotoGP. I
remember the first day in Ducati
Motor Holding when the project
engineer of this bike asked me
to test it in order to make my
opinion for the normal road.
When he showed me the
bike, I said, "That bike? Are you
sure?" There was no legal plate,
no mirrors, nothing. It was really
a full-spec MotoGP bike. I said,
"How can I go on normal roads
with this bike?" He said, "Never
mind. Put the plate on the back
and go out and test the bike." I
said, "Okay." Also, the police,
they were very happy to see this
bike. It was incredible.
You took a real MotoGP
bike on the road?
Yeah, on the road. Some-
times it was a funny moment
when they stopped me to con-
trol something about my license
and the bike, but they under-
stood immediately that the bike
was a racing bike, not a normal
road bike.
