24-page Ducati 1199 Panigale supplement in this week's MCN!

Revolution not evolution
The paint had barely dried on the first Ducati 1098 superbikes off the production lines back in 2007 when the firm sat down and began the process of building its successor: the 1199 Panigale.

A new way of building a superbike
The targets laid down for the 1199 Panigale were so strict, so binding and so difficult to achieve that nothing less than a complete rethink was going to be enough. That meant ditching Ducati’s tradition of a steel trellis frame and embracing something completely new.

The people behind the 1199 project
With hundreds of staff involved in the development of the 1199 Panigale over the last four years, MCN talked to a selection to find out more about them and what role they played in the development.