DUCATI LEAD DEVELOPMENT RIDER ALESSANDRO VALIA
P72
Interview
They asked me to make a
wheelie. I said, "No. You are cra-
zy." I would never make a wheelie
in front of you." They said, "No, I
want to make a video for a friend
of mine." I said, "Okay." This is
Ducati racing. It's incredible.
You guys have a special past
in Italy by the sound of things.
we wanted to go back to basic with
this bike, because it reminds him a
lot of the 916.
It was really interesting to start work-
ing with the bike that had, for example,
a big disc on the braking system. It
was the first bike that had 330mm
discs, and a powerful engine with lots
of torque—really, really, Italian.
I think so. Ducati, Lamborghini
and Ferrari are something special.
Tell us a little of the 1090
range.
Yeah. In the meantime, I start
working also on this. It was a
great bike. We won a lot of races
also with this. It was a complete
change of direction in terms of
style, coming from the 999. It was
something that I remember in one
of the first meetings with Claudio
Domenicali (Ducati CEO), he said
When did you guys start with
the development of the Des-
mosedici Stradale V4?
We start in 2015. We start with
the new Panigale V4, and also
there it was another big step in
the development because it was
the first time that we put into pro-
duction a four-cylinder bike with
this kind of power (not including
the Desmosedici D16RR).
It was a changing of philoso-
phy, for sure. We wanted to add
Valia takes
the mic at the
2018 Panigale
V4 S intro in
Valencia, 2018.
"It's important
to have fresh
ideas that come
from young
people. We are
a really, really
young team and
we work a lot
together."
