Every racing team will claim its machines are unlike any other, but only Ducati Corse has a truly unique set-up that makes its bikes arguably the fastest and most powerful in MotoGP.
Ducati is the only manufacturer to currently use desmodromic valves in its engines, whereas their rivals use more conventional valvetrains.
Go back over 60 years and desmodromic valves were used successfully by one of the winning manufacturers in Formula 1. But, ever since Ducati won the 1956 Swedish Grand Prix with its 125 Desmo bike, the Italian race outfit has refined and retooled a system that no other team has.