In July 2023, Ducati announced that it had done something extremely impressive with the DesertX. Each year, the Tatts Finke Desert Race is a tough, gruel off-road event that spans two days in the Northern Territories in Australia. To test the limits of the DesertX’s capabilities, Ducati product specialist and Ducati Riding Experience Adventure Academy chief instructor Nick Selleck planned to go from the town of Alice Springs to Finke and back—all on a single tank of fuel.
The total distance for this trek was 460 kilometers—or just a hair under 286 miles. The Ducati DesertX in question was kept entirely stock and was not modified to accommodate a larger fuel tank for the journey. Now, talking about this in August 2023, the journey is done—and Ducati was proud to announce that Selleck had done it.
