The colours were unveiled during a team presentation, also featuring the factory Ducati WorldSBK team, on Monday morning in the snow-covered mountains of Mad༺onna di Campiglio, Italy.

The latest livery feat🐼ures some new fluorescent red ‘that recalls the cuౠrve in the Ducati logo’ and more flashes of blue, courtesy of Italian telecommunications company TIM  and the ongoing Shell Advance logos.

Bagnaia’🃏s #1 is now bl༺ack and Bastianini’s #23 white.

Having won 17 of last year’s 20 MotoGP races, its fourth manufacturers’ championship in a row and swept the riders’ title top three, Ducati starts as the clear favourite for this year’s crꦬown.

Again supporting eight Desmosedici riders, Bagnaia’s biggest opposition could again come from within the Ducati ranks - including last year’s title runner-up Jorge Martin (Pr🐈amac) and multiple race winner 😼Marco Bezzecchi (VR46), not to mention the arrival of eight-time world champion Marc Marquez (Gresini).

Bastianini meanwhile starts as something o🌸f ꦇa dark horse.

A four-time 2022 winner for Gresini, the Italian’s debut year in factory colours was interrupted by injuries in the Portimao opener and then 🍃Catalunya, where Bagnaia miraculously escaped fract🍃ures when he fell under the wheels of Brad Binder.

Victory at Sepang was a lone 2023 highlight for Bastianini, who never felt fully comfortable with the engine🦩 braking and corner entry character📖istics of last year’s GP23.

But initial tests suggest the new ⛎GP24 is more towards t🔜he natural style of both factory riders.

Meanwhile, the new MotoGP concession system will work against Ducati, which starts the season with reduced tyres for private testing and no wild-cards. In WorldSBK, the factory’s reigning champion Alvaro Bautista will need to carry ballast to meet the🎐 new minimum combined weight limit.

“There have been some rule changes. This is going to make things harde💖r for us.🦂 Our competitors [in WorldSBK and MotoGP] will have a series of advantages,” said Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali.

The Lenovo and Pramac Ducati teams will again run the latest (2024) factory spec bikes, wꦉith VR46 and Gresini on last year's GP23s.

The Ducati Lenovo duo will resume development work when 2024 pre-season begins at Sepang in Malaysia on Feb꧋ruary 6-8, followed by a final test in Qatar♔ and then the season-opener at Lusail on March 8-10.