Akrapovič and Ducati already get pleasure from a profitable relationship within the industrial and racing worlds. Now this alliance is increasing to off-road racing with the announcement that the Slovenian firm will provide the official exhaust of the Ducati Corse Off-Street workforce.
Akrapovič has a robust bond with Ducati Corse, and this partnership witnessed Ducati riders Francesco Bagnaia (MotoGP™), Álvaro Bautista (WorldSBK), and Nicolò Bulega (WorldSSP) win 2023 world championship titles whereas utilizing Akrapovič exhausts. As a part of preparations to defend these titles this season, the official presentation of the 2024 Ducati Lenovo Crew and the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati workforce was held on the Campioni in Pista 2024 occasion in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. It was throughout this prestigious launch that the Ducati Corse Off-Street workforce additionally unveiled its plans for the forthcoming season, together with that the workforce shall be utilizing Akrapovič exhaust techniques.
The Ducati Corse Off-Street programme has been working intensively on the 450 prototype, with nine-time MX World Champion Antonio Cairoli not too long ago becoming a member of the workforce as a high-performance check rider to use his expertise, pace, and expertise to supply vital suggestions and path for the event of the brand new motorbike. The bike shall be outfitted with an all-new Akrapovič exhaust and can make its debut within the 2024 Italian Motocross Championship. Alessandro Lupino, eight-time Italian Champion and 2021 MXoN winner, shall be onboard to validate the technical options and improvement of the bike inside the calls for of a racing setting.
The brand new off-road division of Ducati Corse will cope with the administration and group of the Bologna-based producer’s sporting programme, which can see participation within the MXGP World Championship and the AMA Supercross Championship within the subsequent few years. With an emphasis on high-performance, lightness, and parts that may be pushed to the intense, with an engine supplying a broad energy supply curve, the Ducati Desmo450 MX prototype will use an Akrapovič exhaust system specifically designed for the bike that matches these standards. The usage of light-weight titanium and a sturdy design will make sure the system meets the tough calls for of off-road racing. This bespoke exhaust has been developed with shut cooperation between Ducati Corse and Akrapovič engineers to optimize the character of the Ducati’s distinctive powerplant, whereas on the identical time making certain the exhaust is compliant with FIM noise laws.
Akrapovič has taken its wealth of data and expertise from racing since its inception in 1991 – which has seen the corporate rejoice 175 world champions in street and off-road racing – into this programme, and it has utilized its intensive know-how and state-of-the-art expertise to supply a high-performance exhaust system for the Ducati Desmo450 MX prototype.
Paolo Ciabatti, Basic Supervisor, Ducati Corse Off-Street:“We’re very happy to have prolonged Ducati Corse’s long-lasting and profitable relationship with Akrapovič additionally to our thrilling new off-road program. Their expertise within the improvement of high-performance titanium exhaust techniques has been very useful for us, additionally contemplating the demanding future FIM noise laws, in place from 2025 onwards. Due to this fact we need to thank Akrapovič for his or her continued assist to our racing actions, and we’ll work exhausting to deliver to success additionally Ducati Corse Off-Street on the motocross tracks.”
Slavko Alojz Trstenjak, Head of Akrapovič Racing R&D:“After a number of years of profitable collaboration with Ducati Corse, we’re happy to even be their number-one alternative as a improvement accomplice and exhaust system provider for Ducati’s entry into the motocross programme. In creating the exhaust system’s configuration, which happy their demanding racers used to excessive requirements, the Akrapovič Racing R&D division additionally joined forces with our manufacturing exhaust techniques R&D. We’ll be following the brand new workforce’s efficiency with nice curiosity, together with the event of their racing bike, for which I’m certain we’ll improve the exhaust system even additional. Everybody at Akrapovič needs Ducati a profitable begin in motocross.”
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