Here's Why Ducati Stopped Making Big V-Twin Engine.

Ducatis were often associated with their big powerful way to an engines and it used to be one of their USPS but with the introduction of the drlv4 it seems that Ducati is slowly replacing the big weird twins in favor of their new V4 engine but why that's why we're going to explore in this video the 14 championship titles and 300 race wins Ducati is the most successful team in the world superbike championship their legendary 90 degree view Twins or otherwise known as the elk twin had a huge role in those achievements those big El twins possesses A major advantage over its in line for competitors the 90 degree between is mechanically better balanced than an inline 4 which often requires a balance shaft let me elaborate on that statement a little bit further in a traditional inline 4 Engine with 180 degree crank all the Pistons stop at the top or bottom dead center in every 180 degrees of the rotation suppose you are on a race track and is about to exit a corner your motorcycle is fully leaned over the traction available at that time is at its minimum now let's just say that the engine is rubbing at 10 000 RPM at that instance the Pistons are transmitting a huge amount of energy into the crankshaft at about 333 times per second now you open the throttle to exit the corner and there will be a change in the rate at which the energy is transferred from the Piston to the crankshaft the crankshaft will react to this change with an Abrupt RPM fluctuation in a straight line you won't notice this RPM fluctuation but at full lean or the traction available is at its minimum this sudden RPM fluctuation will disturb the traction and may result in a high side crash so you will have to be careful when opening the throttle at the corner red set in racing it will cause precious lap time that's where the elk twin has its Advantage with its Superior Mechanical balance in case of a 90 degree between when one piston is at its maximum velocity the other piston is stopped and 180 degrees later the situation is reversed hence the Pistons are trading energy not with crankshaft but with each other giving it a much better mechanical balance than the inline four engines as a result whenever you apply more throttle the change in rotating speed of the crankshaft happens much more progressively and smoothly this allows the rider to open the throttle much earlier without disturbing the traction available at the rear tire but as the technology advanced the inline Force started to manage the traction better at the rear wheel and the advantage starts to diminish and in a desperate attempt to maintain their dominance Ducati allegedly low beat with fim to let their bikes with bigger capacity engines to compete and threaten to leave the sport otherwise they came to the ducati's demand but set an RPM limit to not to piss off other participants it worked out for a while as Ducati was able to achieve two titles during 2008 and 2011 Seasons with their turn 98. but that was the last time Ducati wanted to play Speak a title with the Wheaton engine powered motorcycle the gorgeous panigale 1199 that came after the term 98 would end up becoming the only branch of Ducati unable to win a single world superbike championship this high capacity trick was also causing some problems for Ducati outside the race tracks too with the 200cc displacement Advantage the panigale 1199 was brutally fast and equally capable both at the track and the road even though it proved to be quite a handful of a motorcycle to run at its limit the problem here was in the performance it was the emission compliance out of all Ducati V twins the panigale 1299's super Quadro l-twin was the only engine that didn't pass the Euro 4 amcion regulations this engine in the panigale tour 99 started its life as a 1200cc unit in the panigale 1199 which was already an or Squad engine Ducati then boiled down again to make the panigale turn 99 increasing the engine capacity close to 1.3 liters to 185 cc to be exact and that presents a problem because as the boat to stroke ratio becomes larger the combustion tend to slow down as the tight chamber damage the flame speed causing a less efficient combustion process resulting in higher pollution so now Ducati had two choices one is to spend millions of dollars in an attempt to make the Monstrous between euro for compliant and the second is to go back to the drawing board and create a completely new engine from ground up the country chose the second one and built the all-new V4 engine which we now know as the Desmos reaches stradale V4 thanks to this new platform and the Epic performance by Alvaro Batista Ducati was finally able to claim a world superbike championship title after a decade

Channel: Revving Heart

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Keywords: ducati, wsbk, ducati panigale, ducati panigale V4, panigale v4r, V-Twin, V4 engine, Alvaro Butista, ducati wsbk

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Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 01 2022