Ducati’s electrical chapter will get underway: manufacturing of MotoE bikes for the 2023 championship begins
A 12 months after the primary monitor check at Misano, manufacturing of the bikes that can compete within the 2023 MotoE World Championship has begun
By mid-February all of the bikes for the championship can be accomplished. On the similar time, the programs for the crew technicians who must help them have begun
Two pre-season checks, at Jerez and Barcelona, earlier than the race debut on the French GP on 13 Might
Borgo Panigale (Bologna, Italy), 16 January 2023 – A little bit greater than a 12 months after the primary check with Michele Pirro on the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, work has begun on the “V21L” prototypes that would be the protagonists of the 2023 FIM Enel MotoE™ World Championship season. The manufacturing of the bikes began in December and the 23 models can be prepared by mid-February. Along with the 18 motorbikes that can be raced, 5 spare models can be made out there to the organisation. Every prototype is assembled by knowledgeable technicians within the Ducati MotoE Racing Division with the identical course of, precision and a focus to element typical of the excessive craftsmanship used to construct a MotoGP bike.
The beginning of manufacturing of the “V21L” prototypes represents the start of a brand new and essential chapter in Ducati’s historical past. For the Bologna-based firm, this venture was born with the goal of creating abilities for its future, sustaining the method that has at all times fueled Ducati’s DNA: experimenting with technological options on this planet of racing and dealing to make sure that every part developed on this space can then be used on motorbikes destined for lovers all around the world. To do that, Ducati created the world’s most technological, refined and complicated electrical motorbike, the results of the joint work of Ducati R&D engineers and the Ducati Corse crew. “V21L” is the MotoGP of electrical motorbikes, combining the digital applied sciences and chassis dimensions developed by Ducati Corse with the design course of and venture administration typical of a highway bike just like the Panigale V4. It’s the mixture of one of the best abilities of the 2 worlds, racing and manufacturing, a prototype with which Ducati experiments in a world but to be found, that of electrical sports activities bikes.
Claudio Domenicali, CEO Ducati: “The beginning of manufacturing of the Ducati MotoE is a historic second for our firm, which with this venture is totally finding out the applied sciences of the long run for the world of motorcycling. It is a vital space of experimentation, wherein we’re investing to construct know-how, so that we are going to be prepared when battery expertise ought to permit the creation of an thrilling electrical highway bike with the load, efficiency and vary that lovers count on from a Ducati. We’re due to this fact embarking on this new journey with the goal of creating the folks and abilities inside the firm to form what the character of a future Ducati electrical highway bike could be. The MotoE venture represents a decisive step for Ducati to contribute to the discount of CO2 emissions on the product aspect, alongside analysis into artificial fuels (eFuel) that may scale back the overall CO2 emissions of inner combustion engines to zero. Environmental sustainability is one thing that every one people and all corporations should contemplate a precedence if the fragile stability of the planet is to be preserved. Ducati is dedicated to this additionally at industrial degree, and the development of the brand new Finitura e Delibera Estetica space categorised as Almost Zero Vitality Constructing is simply the most recent instance”.
After a 12 months of improvement checks which have seen Michele Pirro, Alex De Angelis and Chaz Davies take turns driving the “V21L” prototype, the Ducati MotoE venture is getting nearer to the second when the bikes will take to the monitor. The primary check with the riders and groups that can compete within the 2023 World Championship is scheduled for the 6, 7 and eight March at Jerez, adopted by three extra check days on the three, 4 and 5 April on the Montmelò circuit in Barcelona.
The race debut will happen on the French Grand Prix on Saturday, 13 Might. The 2023 MotoE World Championship calendar is unfold over eight Grands Prix with two races per weekend, each on Saturdays. After the French debut, the MotoE World Championship can be current in all the next European races till the Misano GP, thus will proceed at Mugello on the weekend of 11 June, at Sachsenring on the next weekend and at Assen on the 25 June. After the summer season break, the Ducati MotoE bikes will return to the monitor at Silverstone on 5 August, earlier than tackling the ultimate three Grands Prix on the Purple Bull Ring (20 August), Catalunya (2 September) and Misano (10 September).
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