The 2023 year almost certainly marked the most successful race season in Ducati’s 98-year history. In MotoGP, Francesco Bagnaia secured the coveted Riders’ Championship title for Ducati — marking its first-ever back-to-back Rider’s titles — along with also claiming its fifth-ever Constructors’ Championship title (and its fourth consecutive Constructors’ Championship). What’s more, Ducati’s Prima Pramac satellite team won the Teams’ World Championship, making it the first Independent team to ever do so. Álvaro Bautista would also achieve the overall championship title for Ducati’s team in WorldSBK, repeating the Spaniard’s feat from last season. Nicolò Bulega would also take first place in the WorldSSP championship for Ducati’s Aruba.it Racing Team. To celebrate winning three of the most coveted titles in motorcycle road racing, Ducati is marking this illustrious occasion via a limited edition run of Panigale V4 and Panigale V2 superbikes that all come adorned in replica liveries of some of its 2023 season race bikes.
The 2023 Ducati Panigale Replica Bikes are comprised of five replica limited edition models in total. The first of the five is the Panigale V4 Bagnaia 2023 World Champion Replica. Based on the Panigale V4 S, this bike wears the Giallo Ducati livery seen on the Ducati Lenovo MotoGP team’s Desmosedici GP23 at the Misano GP round in Italy. In total the bike is limited to 263 units. The second of the five bikes is the Panigale V4 Martín 2023 Racing Replica, based on the Prima Pramac Team’s Teams’ World Championship-winning Desmosedici GP23 bike — a V4 S-based superbike model limited to just 189 units. The third model is the Panigale V4 Bautista 2023 World Champion Replica. Limited to 219 units, this V4 S-based bike wears the same livery as the factory-backed Panigale that Álvaro Bautista used to secure a championship WSBK title at the Jerez round.
The fourth model is the Panigale V2 Bulega 2023 World Champion Replica which is limited to just 111 units. The bike sports the same black and red livery seen on the Aruba.it Racing’s WorldSSP championship-winning Panigale race bike. Because the actual race bike uses the V2-spec Panigale as its platform, the Bulega 2023 World Champion Replica is the only one out of the five bikes not to be based on the MotoGP-derived four-cylinder model. Last but not least is the final model, the Panigale V4 Bezzecchi 2023 Racing Replica. The rarest bike of the lot, this replica sports the black and yellow of the Mooney VR46 team livery seen on Marco Bezzecchi’s Desmosedici GP22 #72. As a nod to the bike’s race number, this limited edition V4 S-based model is restricted to 72 units. Alongside billet trop triples engraved with each bike’s name and serial number and fuel tank’s signed by the bike’s rider, each of these five models features more than just a replica livery, coming loaded with a host of factory-installed track-focused upgrades including STM-EVO SBK 9-discs dry clutches, custom replica seats, Akrapovič racing exhausts, race-spec plexiglass windscreens, adjustable Rizoma rear-sets, Brembo Stylema R calipers, and a slew of carbon fiber elements, just to name a few.
Available for order now with deliveries scheduled to begin in July of 2024, the 2023 Ducati Panigale Replica Bikes start at $43,000 for the Panigale V2 Bulega 2023 World Championship Replica and go up to $73,000 for the Panigale V4 Bagnaia 2023 World Champion Replica.
