The 2024 MotoGP seaso🃏n could be shaping up quite differently had Gigi Dall’Igna accepted the advances from Honda.

In fact, despite Marc Marquez making the opposite move from Honda to Ducati, you couꦍld argue that Dall’Igna switching could have had an even greater imp🔜act.

But Ducati can breathe a sigh of relief because their mastermind en🤡gineer is staying put.

He told why he didn’t want to go to Honda: “It has cost us a lot to get he🌌re.

“We didn't win the world championship from one year 🎶to the nex💃t.

“It would have been completely stupid to give up on 🀅a situation as positive on a technical level as the oneꩵ that surrounds me now at Ducati.

“The 🦂team I have around me is wonderful, both from a technical and human point of view.

“At Ducati it's great. It's a 🌳place where you c꧑an talk, discuss.

“It's not easy to give up this sweet thing.”

Ducati was🌳 struggling with little hope of leading the M🙈otoGP pack when Dall’Igna arrived a decade ago.

He set about creating the Desmosedici, a bike which was massively innovative in the a♓erodynamics s👍pace.

Despite the failed attempts of Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, and the near-misses of Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati finally ended a 15-year winless run in 2022, when Francesco Bagnaia became their first MotoGP champ꧟ion since Casey Stoner.

Today Dall’Igna’s creation is clearly the best bike on the gꦛrid andജ has attracted Marquez to end his illustrious association with Honda.

Honda, meanwhile, are trying to make meaningful behind-the-scenes changes to reinv🦄ig💯orate their own project.

Dall’Igna would have been the showpiece a🍸ddition - and who knows if recruiting him might have convinced Marquez to stay?