Misano, 10 September 2023 – Yellow motorcycle and yellow livery: since the morning’s Warm Up, the Desmosedici GP of Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia is characterized by a special livery with whom he enters the grid to compete i 27 laps of the Grand Prix Of Misano.
“We went well in the warm up – says Pecco before the start on TV -. It’s very hot, the medium tires are my favourite, we’ll see how it goes.”
Even all the components of the official Ducati team in MotoGP they dress in Ducati yellow and the reigning world champion is no exception, wearing a suit in the same color as the motorbike.
Bagnaia he got the okay from doctors last Thursday to race at the weekend after the shock accident in Spain. “The pain is present in the right turns where I can’t bend,” she said yesterday after qualifying. We’ll step it up a little the painkiller which is fundamental.” We can bet that Pecco’s girlfriend will be there to anxiously follow today’s race, Domizia Castagnini.
For Ducati this is the second episode of the project to enhance the “Ducati yellow” in Racing, after the Panigale V4 R of Team Aruba.it Racing – Ducati had shown off this color on the occasion of theEmilia Romagna Round of WorldSBK,
Yellow is a color that has an important tradition in the history of the Borgo Panigale motorcycle manufacturer.
The yellow sports bikes date back to the first half of the 70s (750 Sport and 750 SS Desmo of the Spaggiari team), but it is in the 90s that the Giallo Ducati, the one from which the special livery is inspired, reaches its moment of greatest popularity with its use in the racing world, which then extends to series production.
Among the memorable models in Ducati Yellow color there is certainly the Ducati 748whose racing derivation led Paolo Casoli to triumph in the 1997 edition of the Supersport World Series, without forgetting superbikes such as the 916, 996, 749, 999 and numerous other models in the range.
“Ducati is red and like all strong brands it identifies a lot with its colour, with which it positions itself in the collective imagination of enthusiasts – he explains Andrea Ferraresi, Director of Strategy & Ducati Style Center -. The Ducati yellow that we see today on the Desmosedici GP is a color that in the past has often been paired with red, thus becoming part of our identity and our tradition. The choice to compete in Misano with the official MotoGP and WorldSBK teams ‘dressed’ in this color is a tribute to our sporting history in the year in which we race as world champions in the two most important motorcycle championships and it is also a sign of the desire to resume Ducati yellow as the company’s second official colour.”
Also Ferrari he adopted yellow on the occasion of the last one Monza Grand Prix, in the pilots’ uniforms Charles Leclerc And Carlos Sainz (in which, however, red remained predominant) and part of the single-seater: a special collection on the occasion of the Italian GP.
