INTERVIEW
DUCATI CORSE GENERAL MANAGER LUIGI DALL'IGNA
P106
electronics or pure engine
power?
For me it is not only the en-
gine. It is also electronics and
also the chassis. On the first
gears maybe the chassis is more
important than the engine, to put
the torque on the ground, the
power on the ground.
What was the main change
in the MotoGP Ducati to get
you where you are now? The
chassis, the engine or the
engine management? Or was
it not just one big problem?
It was not just one big prob-
lem. Not one fundamental prob-
lem. The problems are many
and you have to solve all these
problems. It is not possible to
make up half a second in only
one area. It is impossible.
You mentioned that there
is a very similar strategy for
MotoGP to World Superbike
for Ducati in electronics, but
in World Superbike there is a
very limited cost for the cus-
tomer to buy the electronics.
How is it possible to go from
something more complicated
in MotoGP to something for
customers in World Super-
bike? And they are also run-
ning on different tires.
It is not more complicated
in MotoGP than World Super-
bike. The regulations are not
the same, and we have here a
different ECU, but the software
that can run on the Superbike
ECU is more or less the same
as the software that runs on the
MotoGP ECU. The strategies
are quite similar. The application
is different but the philosophy is
basically the same.
Is electronics getting sim-
pler now or more complicated
than before?
What does less simple mean?
In my opinion before Einstein the
theory of relativity was impos-
sible to understand. After that I
think that it was simple—because
someone explained to another
what the rules were. Simple or
not simple? Easy or not easy?
For me what I know is simple and
what I do not know is difficult.
Ducati returned
to the front at the
season opener.
