2018 Ducati Panigale V4S

Come on! He's white, there couldn't have that much redirected blood!

 

Seems quite quck

 

MotoGP lap record is about 1:29.5. Vid lap shows 1:36+ on the dash.
The rider sure rails some serious lean angle.

 

I believe he was an Italian superstock and occasional WSBK rider before becoming Ducati's head test guy.

 

That’s the same dude that was able to lap within 4sec of Davies’ WSBK Pole Position lap time on a bone stock 1299S (mirrors, mudflap, and all).

7 seconds off the MotoGP lap record on a bone stock production bike is fucking insane.

...especially considering the fact that while he is obviously a very good rider, he isn’t a MotoGP-lap-record-setting caliber rider.

Which makes me wonder what kind of times the stock V4-S could put down with Stoner onboard.

Race tires + bodywork + safety wiring = grid up.

 

I am wondering if the yellow light on top left of dash is the electronics package activating. Seems like it was at higher lean more so on throttle.

 

Probably so. Mine has a yellow light for the same shit.

 

They need to hurry up and get the PaniVour added to Ride 2.

 

I just made that up. But I think I like it. “PaniVour”.

 

Quattrogale

 

They should do it for purely PR purposes. That would be awesome. Stock bike with race tires, complete with mirrors. They could get some serious mileage out of that.

 

You mean as in a wildcard in MGP? Lol that would be awesome

 

I think the Beeb would get even more mileage out of the fact they would probably beat the Suzuki GP effort.

 

Ouch!

 

Fu
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They are testing a SBK/Chaotic versions at Jerez with Panigale bodywork on it.

 

http://www.crash.net/wsbk/news/888845/1/ducati-panigale-v4-debuts-zanetti-jerez