Gigi Dall'Igna. He's a tinker. Not only does he bring out a torque arm at the Jerez test last year to get everyone's tongues wagging, he then, at Sepang, wheels out a piece of engineering last seen on a British Superbike ten years ago to further confuse the MotoGP pitlane. On the top yoke of the Ducati GP19, a new lever/switch/knob/lever, call it what you will, was spotted and the best guesses seem to be it is a suspension lock to be used at the start of races. This has been used in motocross for donkey's and Honda ran one in BSB a decade ago. It locks the suspension in place for a start so there is almost no travel, and then unlocks when the brakes are applied for the first time. It would...
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