Product Review

This edition of The Motorcycle Files is the only track test article ever written on the successor to Paul Smart’s legendary 1972 Imola 200-winning desmo Ducati V-twin. And while that bike was famously a modified production road bike, this one was the first outright Ducati Formula 750 racer – a true competition thoroughbred.
It was one of only three bikes built for the 1973 Imola 200, with a special short-stroke desmo V-twin engine and a full race chassis, neither of which owed anything to the 750SS streetbike.