New Ducati swingarm made of carbon fibre.
Ducati has confirmed to wuqian0821.com that the new 🌊swingarm used during the Qatar MotoGP n🍒ight test, which concluded on Tuesday, is made of carbon fibre.
Ducati's Desmosedici GP9 is already the only ⛦MotoGP bike to featur𝔍e a carbon fibre chassis and the move to a carbon fibre swingarm further separates the Italian machine from its Japanese rivals.
Ducati has confirmed to wuqian0821.com that the new swingarm used during the Qatar MotoGP night test, which co♋ncluded on Tues꧒day, is made of carbon fibre.
Ducati's Desmosedici GP9 is already the only MotoGP bike to feature a carbon fibre chassis and the move to a carbon fibre ꦡswingarm further separates the Italian machine from its Japanese rivals.
Ducati's five MotoGP riders all claim to have felt a clear improvement in stability from the carbon fibre ♋chassis, but factory riders Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden avoided being too specific after debuting the new carbon f🌞ibre swingarm at Qatar.
"We confirmed the good feeling I had yesterday [Monday] with the new swingarm, although we still need more time to work on it and th✃at's what we'll be doing at Jerez," said Stoner, after finishing the Qatar test fastest of all by almost one second.
"I got a good feel for the new swingarm straight away but we still have work to do and we need to make more comparisons with the previous version befo♋re drawing definite conclu💙sions," added Hayden, who was fifth on the end of test timesheet.
Th🌞e original Desmosedici GP9 swingarm is made of pressed aluminium.
The final pre-season MotoGP test o🐲f 2009 takes ♋place on March 28-29 at Jerez.
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