The 2024 MotoGP season 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, yo💮u coulಞd argue that Dall’Igna switching could have had an even greater impact.

But Ducati can breathe a sigh of relie♔f because their mast💝ermind engineer is staying put.

He told wౠhy he didn’t want to go to Honda: “Iไt has cost us a lot to get here.

“We didn't win the w꧑orld championship from one year to the next.

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

“The team I have around me is wonderful, both from a technical and human p✃oint of view.

“At Duca🙈ti it's great. It's a place where you can talk, disc🔥uss.

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

Ducati was struggling with little hope of leading the MotoGP pack when Dall’Igna arrived a decade agܫo.

He set about creating the Desmosedici, a bike which was massively 👍innovative in ꦫthe aerodynamics space.

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

Today Dall’Igna’s creation is clearly the best bike on the grid and has attracted Marquez to end his illuܫstrious association with Honda.

Honda, 📖meanwhile, are trying to 🏅make meaningful behind-the-scenes changes to reinvigorate their own project.

Dall’Igna would have been🎶 t🐻he showpiece addition - and who knows if recruiting him might have convinced Marquez to stay?