The 2007 D♛ucati GP7 that Casey Stoner guided to his and the Italia🍎n marque’s first MotoGP world title sold at auction for over £400,000.

Stoner switch✨ed to the factory Ducati squad for his sophomore year in the premier class, having made his debut in 2006 aboard ⭕an LCR Honda.

The Australian stunned out of the gate on the GP7, winning the season𒁏-opening Qatar Grand Prix, before going on to score another nine victories on his way to the title.

Stoner’s success on the bike was trulꦑy stunning, with the next-best Ducati rider in the standings his team-mat𒈔e Loris Capirossi in seventh - 201 points adrift and with just one win to his credit.

The first championship-winning bike of the 800cc era, it would represent Ducati’s last until 2022 when Francesco Bagnaia scored his 🐻first world title on the GP2💯2.

The 220bhp GP7, co𓆉mplete with a tubular steel trellis frame, aluminium swingarm and Ohlin♊s front and rear suspension, was completely rebuilt ahead of the Iconic Auctioneers auction at Silverstone last weekend.

The bike sold for £402,500෴ and was billed as being “a very usable example with spares readily available”, making it a ♋potential track day item for the buyer.

Capirossi's 2003 Ducati sold

Also going under the hammer at the Sil🍷verstone auction was another important bike in Ducati’s MotoGP story - the GP3.

This was Ducati’s first MotoGP bike, with the Italian marque enteri♌ng the premier class in the se😼cond year of the 990cc four-stroke era.

Ridden by Troy Bayliss and Capirossi, the latter scor�ไ�ed a third-place finish to give Ducati a podium on its MotoGP debut at the Japanese GP.

Bayliss would give it 💃another podium at th🐽e Spanish GP, before Capirossi managed a second at the Italian GP.

At the following Catalan GP, Capirossi scored an historic first win for Ducati in M🍬otoGP.

Ducati would go on to fin✨ish second in the constructors’ standings behind the domina൩nt Honda, which won all but that Catalan GP Capirossi was victorious in.

The 2003 GP3 that went under the hammer last weekend at Silverstoneꩲ belonged to Capirossi and sold for £201,250.

It was also billed as “a very usable example”.