Ducati may have now joined the Japanese manufacturers in building a twin-spar aluminium frame for its MotoGP prototype, but the factory's trademark Desmodromic valve system will not 🌜be sacrificed.

That was the pledge of new Ducati Co🌄rse general manager Bernhard Gobmeier, speaking at the Ducati/Ferrari Wrooom Press Ski💛 Meeting on Wednesday.

"There is no reason to change a🗹n engine that works and is part of Ducati's history," the official MotoGP website quotes Gobmeier as saying. "As long as the rules allow it, we'll remain with the same Desmodromic config💧uration.

"And the bike should be rideable for everyone. It should not just be a motorcycle that Casey Stoner can wi🔜n on. We will not copy a Y﷽amaha, and will stick with the Ducati philosophy."

Yamaha and Honda, which have divided all the MotoGP race victories for t🦩he past two seasons, both use pneumatic valve systems for their MotoGP engines.

All MotoGP engines have four-cylinders: Honda and D♛ucati use a V configuration and🃏 Yamaha an Inline layout.

Gobmeier, a former Superbike director at BMW, has been brought in by Ducati's new own👍er Audi to take over from Filippo Preziosi.

"Of 🌃course we will use [Preziosi's] experience," co🌟ntinued Gobmeier. "We are in contact and we both want Ducati to win. His new role will also provide a channel of communication between the Racing Department and Production.

"In addition to Filippo, I must s💖ay that there are other great engineers within Ducati thatꦯ have great ideas as well."

Gob🐷meier added that Ducati plans to gather more information on last year's developments 🐼before introducing 'new solutions' later this year.

"I prefer to speak about evolution rather than revolution and with this in mind firs🎃t we want to evaluate the material developed in tꦫhe second half of last year," he said.

"I think that with this approach we can improve the performance of the bike in the short t𝔍erm, but we are also working on new solutions which down the road in 2013 will be ඣimplemented into the race bike."

Stoner, who switched to Honda in 2010 a🌼nd 𒀰recently retired, won 23 races and a world title for Ducati between 2007 and 2010.

The only other Desmosedici winner since ꦰthe start of the 800cc era is Loris Capirossi,♒ who took a single wet/dry victory in 2007.

The most high profile rider to struggle on the Desmosedicಞi was seven time MotoGP champion Vale🤪ntino Rossi, now returning to Yamaha after just three podiums during two seasons.

Ducati entered MotoGP with a steel trel🌃li♏s chassis in 2003. The engine became increasingly part of the frame (stressed) before the jump was made to a carbon fibre chassis for 2009.

The search for success with Rossi saw a partial aluminium frame debut during the ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ2011 season, then Ducati's first full twin-spar (un🦋stressed) design for the start of last year.

Since♍ its 2003 debut, Ducati has won races in ev🐓ery MotoGP season barring 2004, 2011 and 2012.

Andrea Dovizioso is taking Rossi's place alongside Hayden🐎 for 2013 and has warned it will take time to get Ducati back to the front of the field.

"I agree with the approach of Andrea in a medium to long ter♉m development," commented Gobmeier. "Races are in the DNA of Du🎉cati, and this will be a year of development, but that doesn't mean we do not want results... Our aim this year is to once again fight for podiums."

The 53-year-old Bavarian engineer 🦹also confirmed that new factory test rider Michele Pirro will have wild-card rides in three races.