Ducati dresses its Lenovo Team with a special livery that celebrates the Italian Renaissance. In recent years, the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello has become one of the settings for Ducati to illustrate its identity through special projects. In 2024, Azzurro paid homage to the colour of the Italian national teams in sport, and in 2025, the narrative evolves even further, blending beauty and ingenuity in a tribute to Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance and symbol of Italian creative genius.
Ducati's Renaissance-inspired livery
Born from the collaboration between designer Aldo Drudi and historian Marcello Simonetta, the project has given life to a livery with a strong symbolic and cultural value. The inspiration comes from two emblematic figures of the Italian Renaissance- Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Inspired by Leonardo's famous drawing known as the "Ancient Captain", Aldo Drudi has reinterpreted the image in a dynamic and contemporary way. He has accentuated the inclination of the head, transforming the Renaissance leader into a modern knight ready to ride his "motorized" centaur.
Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez are the Ducati Lenovo racers, riding one of the most prestigious Made in Italy symbols of motorsport. Their Desmosedici GPs feature a lion and a fox inspired by the armour of Leonardo da Vinci's famous leader, representing the perfect synthesis between strength and cunning, just as Machiavelli teaches in "The Prince": to win, you need both the strength of the lion and the cunning of the fox.
Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez
The Grand Prix racing team claims that with this special livery, Ducati brings to the track a visual and narrative dialogue between past and present, between art and engineering, between the genius of the Renaissance and the contemporary ingenuity of which the motorcycle manufacturer is an expression.
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