FLEXIBLE GENIUS

While talking with former Ducati engineer Corrado Cecchinelli at Laguna Seca Raceway one year, I asked him what special property had made his company’s trellis steel-tube chassis so effective in racing.

“It is because it was designed by a genius,” he replied simply.

That genius was Massimo Tamburini, who was associated with Ducati through Cagiva’s temporary ownership of that company. But genius is a description, not