2025 MOTORRAD Motorcycle of the Year: A Class Victory That Was No Accident

The Panigale V2—and therefore the V2 S as the top version—won the sportbike category up to 990 cc in MOTORRAD’s readers’ poll. That is the most relevant external verdict on this model generation: not an editorial test involving a handful of riders, but the decision of a broad readership familiar with motorcycles through their own riding experience. The class victory confirms what Ducati’s own Vallelunga comparison test showed: the new Panigale V2 delivers similar lap times to its predecessor while wfgjpsggzkfoyfbqizzb

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