Ducati Panigale 1299, the anticipation for the new superbike is growing

Ducati Panigale 1299 – The update of the Panigale by Ducati it's official and, thanks to a "poorly framed" photo during a meeting of Ducati dealers in North America, we also know that the new superbike will be called 1299. As expected, the Borgo Panigale company will bring its new creature up to 1.300cc in displacement, because the World Superbike rules are still for 1.200cc twin-cylinder engines and will certainly not change in the near future.

As for the road versions, the Ducati 1299 and 1299S they will get a increase of 100 cc as regards the displacement, which will allow a longer stroke of the engine, nothing surprising for one whose engine is called “Superquadro”. After the lightest superbike on the market, the Panigale 1199, Ducati certainly does not give up performance in the power-to-weight ratio and the new Ducati philosophy, as regards road sports bikes, is to exploit the company's ability to create very light bikes off a v-twin platform.

As seen with the release of the Ducati 899 Panigale, it seems that there is not much point for the Emilian company in adhering to the displacement increases for a racing class, since it is capable of packaging larger displacement engines into similarly sized motorcycles, as, for example, their Japanese and European colleagues do. The 1299 model seems to be the next step in this progression which shows the growing tendency of companies to issue approvals for special motorcycles that vary from the standard road versions of the same model, as happened to the project of Honda V4 and what it will be like for the new one Yamaha R1.