The cru💯cial role of Gigi Dall’Igna has been transcribed by several key fig🌞ures from within Ducati.

The Italian manufacturer has dominated MotoGP for three years, finishing 2024 with th༒e top four highest-placed riders in the standings.

Ducati are expected to be the protagonists this year too, particularly with Marc Marquez making𒅌 the step up from Gresini to the official garage.

But their tru🌼e star might be general manager and aerodynamics extraordinaire Dall’Igna💎.

"For me, the key point of Ducati was the incorporation of Gig♐i D𒁃all'Igna," Marquez told .

"I would d꧅efine Gigi Dall'Igna as a rider. He has a 100% rider mentality.

“When he doesn't win, he gets angry. He has that ambition that is necessaꩵry in the worl꧟d of competition.

“If he was 20 or 30 years⛄ younger 🌺and he was a rider he would be one of those riders you would fear on the track.”

Lo🅷ris Capirossi added: "Now all the riders want to ride with Ducati.”

Two-💮time World Superbikes champion Alvaro Bautista praised Dall’Igna: "I think that's the secret.

“A good engi♓neer who listens to the riders, who knows how to work not on🌱ly by looking at data, but by interpreting the data along with the rider’s comments.

"He made Ducati go from being a difficult bike, that nobody wౠanted to go, that everyone said 'Ducati... not that, not that', to these last years, where it is the bike that everyone wants.”

Jorge Mar🅘tin won the 2024 MotoGP title with Pramac, the Ducati satellite team who have switched to Yamaha for th♐is year.

"It all started at Gigi,” Martin said.

✃“It was when they made the bike so competitive. Gigi put together so many bikes on t🦋he track with very talented new riders, so everything has been a bomb.”

Dall’Igna had his say: "I have always thought that aerodynamics had been neglected a lot in motor🍌cycle racing.

“But I must say that here I have found the right peo🥃ple to be able to address the issues of aerodynamics on the bike, which are much more complica𝐆ted compared to a car."

D🍷ucati wil🙈l face new challenges this year, with a reduced presence on the MotoGP grid from eight to six bikes.

They have also reduced the quantity of factory bജikes from four to three (for Marquez, Pecco Bagnaia and VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio).

Without Pramac anymore, VR46 take over as Ducatiඣ’s key satellite team. They will retain Gresini too.