If you're a current owner of the Ducati 1098 and are happy with it, I'd suggest you stop reading here. Otherwise you're just going to get mad reading about Ducati's latest offering. Consider yourself warned. For the rest of you who are interested in how Ducati's involvement in World Superbike has helped improve their road-going models, then the 1198 is for you.
At the start of the year Ducati introduced the 1098R as its entry into the World Superbike arena. This $40,000 machine was full of exotic materials and top shelf components, making it as close to the factory bike that Troy Bayliss piloted to his third WSBK title as one could get.
Back home, however, and the wheels in the Ducati brain trust started spinning over how it could improve the rest of the road-going superbike line. The boys from Bologna were well aware that the 1098 hadn't fared too well in magazine shootouts (including ours), and if there were ever a group that hated losing a competition, it's the ones at Ducati. Armed with motivation (and the engine tooling from the 1098R), the new 1198 was born.
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