The 2024 MotoGP season 🥃could be shaping up quiꦜte differently had Gigi Dall’Igna accepted the advances from Honda.

In fact, despite Marc Ma🧔rquez making the opposite move from Honda to Ducati, you could argue that Dall’Igna switching could have had an even greater impact.

But Ducati can breathe a sigh ofꦫ relief because their mastermind engineer is staying put.

He told why he didn’t🔥 want to go to Honda: “It has cost us a lot t💯o get here.

“We didn't win th𝕴e world championship from one year to the next.

“It would have been completely stupid to give up on a situation as positive on a technical level as the one that surrounds🀅 me now ꦿat Ducati.

“The team I have aroun🌱d me is wonderful, both from a technical and hꦛuman point of view.

“At Ducati it's great. It's a plac🗹e where you can talk, discuss.

“It's not easy to give up this sweet thing.”

Ducati was struggling with little hope of leading the Mot💯oGP pack when Dall’Igna arrived a decade ago🍃.

He set about creatꩵing the Desmosediciꦯ, a bike which was massively innovative in the aerodynamics space.

Despite the failed attempts of Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, and✅ the near-misses of Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati finally ended a 15-year winless run in 2022, when Francesco Bagnaia became their first MotoGP champion since Casey Stoner.

Today Dall’Igna’s creation is clearly the best bike on t🧜he grid and has attracted Mar♏quez to end his illustrious association with Honda.

Honda, meanwhile, are t🍰rying to make meaningful behind-the-scenes changes to🌺 reinvigorate their own project.

Dall’Igna would have been the showpiece addition - and who ℱknows if recruiting him might have convinced Marquez to stay?