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NEWS : VENDORS 01732 759725 13 AD DPS TECH DATA “Technology Is What Makes Ducati a Winning Team” - Ducati Corse’s Secret To Success Over the last decade, MotoGP has undergone a technological revolution — spurred in part by Ducati-led innovations — and races continue to get faster, safer and even tighter at the finish line. In such a fast-paced environment, “Data gives Ducati the edge advantage”, explains Gabriele Conti, Ducati’s electronic systems director. Every Ducati bike is equipped with dozens of micro- sensors that provide continuous feedback on minute data points. The IoT sensors track a host of data points, including tire temperature, revs, engine running param- eters and speed, as well as key performance indicators (KPIs) such as vibration, grip and acceleration. With the help of technology, this data directly informs racing engineers’ decisions and dramatically reduces the time it takes to determine and fix any issues with the bike’s performance. Later, engineers apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to the test data and performance KPIs to predict future outcomes and to identify the ideal bike setup. In other words, with every race, the bikes — and the people who work with them — are getting smarter and more adaptive. With so much data continuously flowing in from the bikes, Ducati turns to Lenovo’s arsenal of high - performance servers, award-winning PCs and tablets to manage and store it all. “As you can imagine,” says Paolo Ciabatti, Ducati Corse Sporting Director, “MotoGP is the most advanced motorcycle racing class in the world and there is a lot of electronics in these bikes. Our engineers need to download and process a lot of data, and to do so, we need powerful computers and servers.” While spectators on the track see the Lenovo logo emblazoned on the front fairing of the Ducati Desmosedici, the technology company is embedded