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Being perhaps the worst kept secret (but most exciting proposition) to emanate from our friends over at Hinckley, the rumours of a swansong Daytona 765 have well and truly found form, as we learned first-hand during its official unveiling at Silverstone MotoGP. That’s also where we caught up with the British brand’s chief engineer Stuart Wood, and grilled him like a kipper on the ins and outs of this carbon-clad beauty.

How did the Daytona 765 come about?

We kicked things off two years ago. That was after we’d got the Moto2 gig confirmed,

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