The 2024 MotoGP season could be shaping up quite differently had Gigꩲi Dall’Igna accepted the advancไes from Honda.

In fact, despite Marc Marquez making the opposite move from Honda to Ducati, you could a🦩rgue that Dall’Igna switching could have had an even greater impa🐓ct.

But Ducati can breathe a sigh of relꦇ🎶ief because their mastermind engineer is staying put.

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

“We ꦆdidn't w🌞in the world 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 one that surrounds me now at Ducati.

“The team I have around me is wonderful, both from a technical and h𒅌uman point of view.

“At Du🎐cati it's great𒀰. It's a place where you can talk, discuss.

“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 ago.

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

Despite the failed attempts of Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, and the near-misses of Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati finally ended a 15-year winless run i🌳n 2022, when F༺rancesco Bagnaia became their first MotoGP champion since Casey Stoner.

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

H༒onda, meanwhile, are trying to make meaningful behind-the-scenes changes to reinvigorate their own project.

Dall’Igna would have been the showpiece addition - and w♈ho knows 𒊎if recruiting him might have convinced Marquez to stay?