The 2024 MotoGP se🙈ason 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, you could argue that Dall’Igna switching couldಞ have had an even greater impact.

But Ducati can breathe a sigh of relief because their mastermind engine𓂃er is staying put.

He told why he diꦦdn’t want to go to Honda: “It ༺has cost us a lot to get here.

“We didn't win the world championship from oꦬne year to the next.

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

“The team I have aro🍌und me is wonderful, both from a technical and human point ofܫ view.

“At Ducati it's great.ღ It's a place where you can t👍alk, discuss.

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

Ducati was struggling with l🎐ittle hope of leading the MotoGP pack when Dall’Igna arrived a decade💦 ago.

He set about creating the Desmosedici, a b🎉ike which was massively innovative in the aerodynamics space.

Despite the failed attempts of Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, and the near-misses of Andrea Doviz🐎ioso, Ducati finally ended a 15-year winless run in 2022, when Francesco Bagnaia became their first MotoGP champion s𝓡ince Casey Stoner.

Today Dall’Ig𝓰na’s creation is clearly the best bike on the grid and has attracted Marquez to end his illustrious association with Hon🌞da.

Honda, meanwhile, are t💖rying to make meaningful behind-the-scenes changes to reinvigorate their own project.

Dall’Igna would have been the showpiece addition -ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤ﷺ⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ and who knows if recruiting him might have convinced Marquez to stay?