Gigi Dall’Igna has admitted th🎃at KTM’s start system forced Ducati into a major reaction last year.

Jack Miller and Brad Binder enjoyed a hug☂e step forward from last summer thanks to KTM’s new starting system.

It was a development which came too late t♏o threaten the all-Ducati MotoGP championship fight, but it caught🥃 Dall’Igna’s attention.

The engineer extraordinaire told he was surprised by it: “Probably yes, so much so that we started to think about𒅌 a system to improve our st𒆙arts.

“At that t💧ime, the KTMs started better than us, but we reacted to eliminate that disadvantage.”

KTM emerged as a viable threat to Ducati last season and are heavily tipped to maintain that statuౠs as the nearest competition when the 202🐷4 MotoGP campaign begins.

The new concessions rules which hold back Ducati the most, and Dall’Igna has already voiced his annoyance that KTM and Aprilia will be♎nefit.

But Ducati are still expected to have the best bike, and their GP24 first took to the track at the postseason Valencia test - but Dall’Igna warns that the factory duo and Pramac pꦯair’s machine will still improve.

“That one was at the beginning of its development,” he sa💙id.

“There w𝕴ill be modifications that we will soon see💫.”

The numerical superiority of the Ducatis, plus the benefit of 🎶the Desmosedici, means th🅺e Italian manufacturer are the team to beat.

B🃏ut Dall’Igna is wary of the competition in a year where Honda an🌌d Yamaha are determined to bounce back from their terrible showings last season.

“All the brands will try to correct what happened last year,”♑ he s🐽aid.

Asked which manufacturer would ch💙allenge Ducati the most, he said: “I expect them to step up in 2024. I can't give a name at this staಞge.

“B🍷ut surely, between the 𒅌concessions and the level that some of them showed in the final stretch of 2023, we will have it more complicated.”