2021 DUCATI PANIGALE V4 SP

Spotless 2021 Panigale V4 SP that was purchased from GP Motorcycles new. Bike is stock other than installed Tail Tidy. Brand new rear tire. The V4 SP has got the same five spoke carbon fiber wheels and Brembo Stylema R front brake calipers as the Superleggera, with Brembo’s MSC adjustable master cylinder and remote adjuster. The carbon wheels are 1.4kg lighter than the forged alloy units on the V4 S. The SP is powered by the same 1,103cc Desmosedici Stradale engine as the V4 and V4 S and makes the same 214hp (@12+3,000rpm) and 124Nm of torque (@9,500rpm), but it puts all that through a STM EVO-SBK dry clutch. They say the dry clutch guarantees much more effective ‘anti hop’ control even in the most aggressive downshifts, making it even more suited to the track. And then, of course, there is the dry clutch rattle that, love it or hate it, is ‘oh so Ducati’. In fact, there’s a very ‘track-focused’ feeling to all the upgrades they’ve treated the SP to, not least of all the 520 pitch chain and the adjustable billet rear-sets. You even get a Ducati Data Analyser (DDA+), so you can go through all your data in the pub, after your trackday, and see why you weren’t on lap record pace! On paper, it really does seem like the kind of thing that would be much more at home on a racetrack than on the road, which is a sentiment echoed by Ducati’s statement “an amateur rider on the ‘SP’ will be faster than if he were riding the more demanding ‘R’ version”. As well as the aforementioned DDA+, you get a full suite of Ducati electronics including their latest Traction Control EVO 3 which effectively tries to predict wheelspin and stop it before it happens. And then of course you have all the other rider aids; wheelie control, slide control, shifter/blipper as well as Öhlins Smart EC2.0 suspension.