MotoGP: It's official, Gigi Dall'Igna moves to Ducati
He will hold the role of General Director of Ducati Corse
The news has been circulating for some time, but now it's official. Gigi Dall'Igna moves to Ducati, thus leaving Aprilia, the company with which he won a lot in both the world championship and Superbike. He will hold the role of General Director of Ducati Corse and from what we understand he will have carte blanche on the MotoGP project. Below is the official press release from Ducati.
Borgo Panigale (Bologna) 10 October 2013 – Ducati announces the appointment of Eng. Luigi Dall'Igna as new General Manager of Ducati Corse. Ing Dall'Igna (47 years old) boasts significant knowledge in the world of motorsport, in particular in the world championship and Superbike, where he has gained important experience. The skills of the new Ducati Corse manager will allow the Borgo Panigale company to further focus its sporting activity from a technical point of view, creating the conditions for a new phase of development and increase in competitions.
The Eng. Dall'Igna will report directly to Claudio Domenicali, CEO of Ducati Motor Holding.
Engineer Bernhard Gobmeier, General Director of Ducati Corse for the last ten months, will return to Germany to take up a new role within the Volkswagen Motorsport group. A prestigious and strategic role for the fifty-four-year-old Bavarian engineer, which will allow him to continue a path of professional growth within the Volkswagen group.
Paolo Ciabatti, who has been MotoGP Project Director since January this year, maintains his role reporting directly to the new Ducati Corse General Director.
Always to Eng. Dall'Igna will also bring back Ernesto Marinelli, Director of the Superbike Project, a role that the Modenese engineer has held for Ducati for two seasons already.
The new appointments will be effective starting from 11 November 2013, immediately after the last race of the 2013 season.
“Thanks to this appointment – commented Claudio Domenicali, CEO of Ducati Motor Holding – we can face the next sporting season with renewed motivation. We are confident that the renewed organization of Ducati Corse, and an even more focused technical development strategy, will contribute to achieving the objectives we have set ourselves, and will bring Ducati back to playing a leading role in both MotoGP and SBK. My personal thanks to Bernhard for the role he has held in these ten months, to Gigi a welcome on board, certain that his great experience, combined with our technology and R&D and the technological support of the Audi/VW group, will allow us to return, even in racing, to the levels of excellence that DUCATI has had in the recent past.”
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So this exonerates Filippo, :-(
This is proof that Ducati is completely in the lurch, Gobmeier didn't have time to sit down before they already kicked him out, how can you expect one man to revolutionize everything in 10 months????? Is absurd!!!!
Ducati in an apocalyptic chaos, and I'm not exaggerating!!!!!
There was no need for any other “proven” evidence.
They had already admitted that they were totally in the ball (statements from 2012).
It is clear to everyone that they were swimming in a tank full of M...a and that the only solution found by Gobbo was to say: "swim very slowly and above all, don't make a wave!"
One wonders how they came to be in the most total "balloon".
Naturally it is a rhetorical question, because in the declarations of 2012, they explained precisely why this situation had arrived.
If I write it, I'm just another fan trying to justify the side I support, but the statements I'm referring to were released by those directly involved.
Gobbo-meier was already a "lost ball" as soon as he arrived at Ducati.
From his previous career with 2 wheels, it had already become clear that he would not achieve anything really important and there was nothing to expect from a character like that.
It's not absurd, it was what they should have done if they really wanted to try to become great again.
In 10 months he hasn't moved a leaf.
From his statements, with Him still at the helm, we would have continued with the development of this project (absurd) and it would have been like having a "Tafazzi" at home (remember the one about the bottles on the boxes?).
They shouldn't even have taken it.
Unfortunately Preziosi "paid" for everyone, so the "others" came out "clean and tidy".
Getting rid of the Gobbo is never too early, 10 months of nothing.
He had started by reviewing all the old material, but then the conclusions he reached and the related changes made to the bike did not have any obvious effect.
What should have been done?
Wait until 2014 to realize that the Gobbo field is not 2, but 4 wheels?
I understand….So even for the whole of 2014 (and consequently also for part of 2015), we could continue to sputter…..and the Red.
Nice perspective.
very bad news for Aprilia, let's hope it at least revives Ducati..
They can always turn to Filippo Preziosi.
He has already been "free" for some time and the sooner they call him, the better.
I am convinced that he could do as well as (and perhaps more than) Dall'Igna.
It is true!!!! It is true!!!!
I didn't believe it or rather, I didn't hope for it, but...
It's nice to be wrong in such circumstances.
Great Gigi!!!
He will have carte blanche. Finally this "carte blanche" is given to an Engineer, not to a pilot as in 2011.
Del Torchio (or Del Tornio), after having contributed to ruining Ducati, went on to do damage in Alitalia (luckily for the red one) and in Ducati, it has finally been understood who should be given the famous "carte blanche", to those who have the ability to use it conveniently, not those who use it only for pressing needs.
Finally there is a thread of hope for the return of the Red.
Who knows, maybe some pilots may have to bite their nails, accompanied by; in order: Fingers, hands, Arms, up to the Elbows.
More good news.
The "Hunchback", born Bernhard Gobmeier, will return to do damage (or rather, not move a leaf) in Germany.
Never to see each other again my dear “Hunchback”.
To the Aprila fans: don't despair, you have lost a great Engineer, but try to put forward the proposal to hire another great Engineer, still free from commitments as far as I know, a certain Filippo Preziosi.
It is not right to leave a mind like yours, bridled by lack of work.
Of course we are right in Italy, where great minds are forced to leave.
However, at least for 2014, the foundations of the project for the MotoGP world championship are already well established.
Hiring a great replacement immediately will allow Aprilia to continue in the most appropriate way, especially in SBK where Dall'Igna presented a project (the current one), which, only due to slight shortages of riders, did not allow him to renew the title conquered with Max last year.
From what I know, as long as Domenicali is there making decisions at Ducati... things are destined not to go well...
We'll see... but as an Italian I'm now looking more at Aprilia, given that Ducati is now only partly Italian.
X Rob
Domenicali, the "new" CEO, will have to make decisions (as he did to "acquire" Dall'Igna) that concern the company, not the individual sector.
I don't think it will influence the decisions that the Engineer will make to bring Ducati back into vogue also in world competitions.
As a Ducati enthusiast, he has a certain propensity for tradition (logical too).
This certainly won't affect MotoGP because the "Ducati tradition" has no longer "been" for some time now.
It will tend to maintain the distinctive characteristics of the brand in the production of Supermotos, but here too it has made some distinctions.
Domenicali believes that the current regulations (SBK) penalize the bike too much, while the product on the road, without too many changes, is still very competitive.
From what I have been able to understand, tradition remains, as far as possible, but always open to solutions that make Ducati still competitive in the major world championships, MotoGP and SBK.
NB: now everything is "only partly Italian", in fact, many companies are not Italian at all, but they don't say so.
Ducati itself was for some time in the hands of an American pension fund if I remember correctly, then it returned to Italian, just in time to be "swallowed up" by the "Torchio" of our house, well groomed and sold off to the Germans.
We are in Italy, we should be accustomed to this crap by now, where managers don't know how to be managers (perhaps because it's an English term and not an Italian one, so they don't really understand what it means), where only foreign administrators offer a guarantee, albeit minimal, of seriousness and competence.
Sorry for the outburst.
@ligera. Dall'Igna's signature had been pending for some time…. we have reached a conclusion only now because ducati has accepted his proposals, freedom of decision in the project. This is good!! ps: that famous ice cream maker friend of mine who is a friend of a mechanic friend who has friends in ducati told me... ihihihih
tester
I don't think Monociglio will have carte blanche (just as Preziosi didn't), I obviously hope I'm wrong on this point….
I hope so, but looking at the past, there are no elements to think this...
I have a question in mind, namely:
But the very new motorbike (which was supposed to arrive at LAGUNA 2012, then postponed to the beginning of 2013, postponed for the umpteenth time to Misano 2013, now that it has been postponed again to Valencia 2013, a first version, to arrive at the tests with a solid), announced for 2 years now, has it always been a prick to calm down fans/sponsors?
Let's look at the two cases (new motorcycle arrives/does not arrive).
If it arrives, monociglio will have to work on a project that is not his, with all that entails (study to understand the different choices in detail, test after test, etc., etc.). Let's assume that this is its starting point... How can you have as a basis a project that is not yours and that in the medium term you will have a 30% vision of this bike?
As long as this bike has room for intervention...
So more time, with the risk that whoever designed this "new bike" has brought the old problems with them, and with the risk of finding themselves in the situation of throwing everything away and starting again....
Second hypothesis.
The new bike doesn't arrive.
Very well, in this case the fans and sponsors were taken for a ride. The new bike doesn't exist, or rather a project shelved...
So more time to give unibrow time to create a bike from SCRATCH from a WHITE sheet of paper! A lot of time… Too much…
Obviously taking into account the various steps that will have to be addressed….
These are my doubts about Ducati at the moment.
There is relatively little time to get out of this situation (read the sponsor's statements), and there is a lot of work to do.
x BCS:
Still around you incompetent liar?
For me ligera, the forum relationship with you ends here.
It is clear that answering you is useless.
For me, replying to you was "annoying" after just a few of your replies.
You have demonstrated this in all our discussions.
Then:
Take good care of me.
X Ligera:
HI…:-)
As you know, I have friends inside the factory, in the MotoGP racing department.
And from what I understand, Domenicali had a lot to do with the vicissitudes of recent years.
In racing, more and more politicians and people who don't know what they're talking about (this unfortunately happens in many other work sectors as well).
Ducati allowed many of its men to make the fortunes of Yamaha first, and then Honda.... and this should never have happened, I am referring mainly to the two ex-Magneti Marelli electronic engineers who over the years had brought them close to the Stoner's arrival in Ducati, the Italian company that has an enormous advantage in that field...an advantage that the Japanese have eliminated in one fell swoop by buying these men from Ducati...without mentioning that if you now look in the HRC garage they are for most of them Italian ex.Ducati.
These things shouldn't have happened....and from what I know, Domenicali did his best to make these things happen.
I'm speculating because I don't know the implications.
What was Ducati supposed to do if the Giappys reached figures that, perhaps due to an internal decision wanting to keep salaries within a certain limit, Ducati could not or did not want to afford?
In hindsight it's all true at the time, I'm sure we hoped to find 2 others equally capable, but instead it seems they really failed.
I don't have the faintest idea of how much Domenicali has to do with the decisions made several years ago. What is certain is that he has always been a person who has always had a certain amount of consideration in Ducati. I honestly don't know what kind of person he will prove to be, for what little I have left of him is the passion he shows for motorbikes and for Ducati in particular.
I don't think he has ever influenced Preziosi and I don't think (or rather) I hope (at this point) that he leaves Dall'Igna, free to vent his creativity. Making the mistake of wanting to "direct" certain heads is never productive.
He may have done it with "Gobbo", but it was clear right from the start that he wasn't the right person in the right place.
Happy for Ducati, but sad for Aprilia (which will lose more men).
Will Ducati give carte blanche to unibrow?
I do not believe….
What Rob wrote, I can easily confirm too (for the same reasons he has).
Who knows, we just have to wait and see how things will go.
Will a new bike arrive?
Yes?
Well, then unibrow will have to work on a project that isn't his (and everything that comes with it)
Won't he arrive, to give unibrow time to build his own Ducati?
Good, but it takes a lot of time!
Rob
Have you heard Ferrari's statements regarding Ducati (he won the case), released to Griglia?
x Bcs:
unfortunately I know nothing about this story of Virginio Ferrari and the lawsuit with Ducati.
Rob
But why, you disappoint me :).
You mentioned an acquaintance of yours at Ducati…
Ask him, or try searching on the Internet (I don't know what you'll find honestly).
Ferrari (in my opinion only you and I know him in here), in the episode of Griglia he made statements that had never been made public (for various reasons), but which are very true (you can easily prove them by asking your acquaintance)… .
Many parts are missing, and many things that the good Ferrari did not say, to avoid further figures for Ducati.
Still around you incompetent liar?
For me ligera, the forum relationship with you ends here.
It is clear that answering you is useless.
For me, replying to you was "annoying" after just a few of your replies.
You have demonstrated this in all our discussions.
Then:
Take good care of me.
__________
as you know, I also have an ice cream maker friend who is a friend of a friend of a friend who worked at Ducati... but who nevertheless remained a friend of another friend who had a friend of a mechanic as a friend.... so guys I know more than you because I raced in the country championship and I won. so everyone shut up when I talk because having run I know more than you!! ok??? therefore'…. getting to the point that friend of my friend told me that by 2015 ducai will return to victory!!!!!!!!! Please don't listen only to those in the course or to those you know... I'm a friend of a friend so I know more!!!!!!
sorry for the mistakes…. but with all these friends of friends in the environment…. I don't understand shit anymore!!!!!! but trust me... because I ran and won.
…you drank? Test friend, think about Kawa and leave Gigi alone...
ahahahaha…. I told you I was going to leave and start shooting shit!!!