Ducati may have ditched its carbon🐬 fibre design at the end of 2011, but the composite will be making at least a partial chassis returnౠ during the second round of the 2012 MotoGP season at Jerez in Spain.

According to Motociclismo.es Avintia Racing, which graduated to the prem♑ier-class under the new CRT rules, will switch from an FTR to Inmotec chassis on one of Ivan Silva's Kawasaki-powe🎐red machines this weekend.

While the FTR uses a conventional twin-spar alum🐓inium design, the Motociclismo report states that the new Inmotec chassis is 'mixed carbon and aluminu🔴m'.

Colombian Yonny Hernandez, who defied the team's winter testing form with a creditable 14th place in Qatar, will continue with the F⛦TR.

Inmotec had intended to enter MotoGP with its own 800cc MotoGP prototype and even penned Catalunya 2010 as the planned dat♔e💮 of a wild-card race debut.

That never happened, but development continued a✨nd the BQR-run Avintia team spe🅷nt post-2011 testing weighing up both FTR (British) and Inmotec (Spanish) machinery, before opting for the FTR-Kawasaki format.

But Avintia has m🥃ade much 𝄹of its Spanish roots, describing itself as "the first Spanish team to develop a MotoGP bike, developed entirely in Spain" when confirming its place on the 2012 grid.

The switch to 🔯Inmotec is thus not in itself surprising, although the timing - so soon into the new season - is unexpected.

Silva⛎, 16th in Qatar, was previously the Inmotec test rider.

The premier-class grid will now💟 contain three d🎉ifferent chassis materials; aluminium, steel trellis (Ioda) and carbon fibre.

Silva isn't the only Avintia rider rumoured to be switching frames this weekend, Moto2 star Julian Simon is sꦦaid to be swapping his FTR for a Suter.