Ducati's MotoGP machine may have made an impressive debut in 2003,♔ but that has not prevented the team's engineers from making changes to 🌳its specification over the winter.

M🔜ore than 60 per cent of the 915 individual components that mak💖e up the new D16 GP4 are totally different to those on its predecessor, to the extent that they cannot be interchanged with the previous version.

Engine: liquid-cooled, 9ཧ0 degree V4 four-stroke, desmodr♕omic DOHC, four valves per cylinder

Capacity: 989cc

Maximum power: 169kW/230+ bhp @ 16500rpm

Maximum torque: approx. 100Nm/10.2kgm @ 14000rpm

Maximum speed: in excess of 330kph (205mph)

Transmission: six-speed cassette-type gearboꦡx, with alternative gear ratios available. Dry mu๊ltiplate slipper clutch. Chain final drive

Carburation: indirect Magneti Marelli electro🐻nic injection, four throttle bodies🐈 with injectors above butterfly valves

Fuel: Shell Racing V-Power

Lubricant: Shell Advance Ultra 4

Ignition: Magneti Marelli

Exhaust: Termignoni, two x two-into-one system

Frame: tubular steel tr♔ellis-style chassis, pressed aluminium swing-arm

Suspension: ?🧜hlins upside-down 42mm front forks and ?hlins rear shock absorber, adjustable for preload, compression and rebound damping

Tyres: Michelin, 17" or 16.5" front, 16.5" rear

Brakes: Brembo, two 320mm carbon front discs with four-piston callipers. Single st🍨ainless steel rear disc with two-piston calliper

Dry weight: 148kg