Dakar, Ciabatti in advance: is Ducati thinking about it? There's DesertX

Today the veils are removed from the motocross bike

There Ducati today in Madonna di Campiglio it will present the Desmosedicis of Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini and the Panigales of Alvaro Bautista and Nicolò Bulega, the two pairs of riders who will defend the titles won in the two-year period 2022-2023 in both MotoGP and Superbike.

The appointment on the Trentino snow will also be used by the Borgo Panigale company to present the cross bike with which Ducati will begin its journey off-road starting from the national championships in 2024 with the aim of landing in the US Supercross and the MXGP championship in the future.

He will be in charge of the off-road project Paolo Ciabatti, who was also recently a guest of Audi ('owner' of Ducati) at the latest edition of the Dakar won – in the car category – by the Four Circles company with Carlos Sainz. An 'exploration' mission towards a Ducati future in the most famous raid in the world? “At the moment we have no plans to come to the Dakar, but when you have a single-cylinder 450 there is certainly the possibility of thinking about rally-raid – commented Ciabatti according to what was reported in today's edition of the Spanish sports newspaper AS – now we are not thinking about the Dakar, but the modern Dakar is interesting for us. In recent days I met with the race director David Castera, he explained to me how everything works and for me it's all experience.”