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Mercy call Rumor Control... Preziosi and Burgess both believe Ducati’s
trademark 90º V4 is not a concept that needs altering for its MotoGP
project... people forget the weight bias is aft for Bridgestones...

Quote Preziosi Jan 2012
“For me the angle is not a main issue. I think we could design a great bike
with 90 degrees and a great bike with a smaller angle. There are some
advantages with a smaller angle and some disadvantages, especially for this
displacement. This displacement is obtained just increasing the stroke
because the bore is more or less similar to the 800, so the engine becomes
higher if you close the angle. There are some disadvantages in doing that if
the stroke is very high. But if the engine is higher it isn’t as long, so it is a
compromise.”

Quote Burgess Jan 2012
“The 90-degree is a very good engine although perhaps a little more difficult
in the packaging but not something that I would be afraid of. If you can
package a V4 the right way it's the best engine. If you spoke to most of the
engineers in the world their choice of engine would be a 90-degree V. The
packaging issues are not impossible to overcome and it has won races in the
past, so no one can say that is holding us back.”