At the 2015 MotoGP World Championship opening event in Qatar, the Ducati GP15 machines of factory riders Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone debuted large winglets on the fairings. The initial reaction among many of the competing teams was mild derision, as the previous belief on aerodynamic aids for racing motorcycles was that they couldn’t be effective because of how a motorcycle leans when cornering (making it difficult to assist with tire grip) and how little space is available on the fairings to mount such devices.
But then the Movistar Yamaha factory team began trying out its own fairing winglets a few months later. And next small winglets even sprouted up the factory Repsol Honda team fairings in preseason testing for this year. Eventually the Ducati Desmosedici sprouted multiple winglets, making…
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Sport Rider (Digital) - 1 Issue, October - November 2016