Ducati has confirmed that it has recalled swingarms from some of its customer teams during the Dutch WorldSBK round at Assen.<\/p>\n
Ducati, of course, introduced a new double-sided swingarm, replacing its long-standing single-sided unit used until 2025, for this year with its updated Panigale V4 R model. The intention of the new design is to improve rear stability, and it has also allowed Ducati to retain the structure of the rear part of the bike while cutting weight compared to the previous edition of the Panigale that was never able to make the minimum weight limit.<\/p>\n
Italian publication GPOne first reported on the swingarm issues on Friday (17 April) at the Dutch World Superbike<\/a> round, which saw Ducati lockout the top-three in both free practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n On Saturday, Ducati WorldSBK technical director Marco Zambenedetti confirmed that swingarms had been recalled but that investigations were ongoing.<\/p>\n \u201cIn racing, we push technology and components to the limit, so it\u2019s normal for problems to arise,\u201d Zambenedetti told GPOne. \u201cThey\u2019re exactly what we need to improve and prevent issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cIn this specific case, it\u2019s too early to draw conclusions: we need to analyze the component\u2019s history, any crashes, handling errors, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve identified some critical issues with certain teams, so we\u2019ve already recalled some parts and replaced them. Now we\u2019ll analyze everything carefully to understand the causes and evaluate possible solutions for the upcoming races.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe priority remains the riders\u2019 safety.\u201d<\/p>\n Zambenedetti added that it is not yet certain whether Ducati will introduce updated swingarms at the next round in Hungary on 2\u20134 May.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will depend on the analysis,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cIf we deem it necessary to make changes, we will do so; otherwise, we might find that it\u2019s not needed. It\u2019s still too early to say.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the problems, Ducati\u2019s performance in Assen has been strong. It completed its third front row lockout from three rounds in 2026 during Superpole, and occupied all three places on the podium for the second time this year in Race 1, and had Alvaro Bautista<\/a> in fourth as well.<\/p>\n Miguel Oliveira<\/a> is third in the standings as the first non-Ducati rider following his seventh-place finish in Race 1, but is now 84 points behind championship leader Nicolo Bulega<\/a> who has won all seven races so far this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ducati has confirmed that it has recalled swingarms from some of its customer teams during the Dutch WorldSBK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[6910,64,63,17197,806,805,803,804,85,113816],"class_list":{"0":"post-616812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-aruba-it-racing-ducati","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-ducati","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-world-superbikes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}