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Ninety-one point eight per cent looks smaller than ninety-three point one three, and lining those two up is the commonest mistake made with these figures. The P037 number was measured against 37-micron particles. The P08 numbers, 93.13 % for the standard weave and 95.22 % for the racing one, were measured against 100-micron particles. Different test material, different question, no league table. What can be said about R127S-WP-SBK is what it was drawn for, not where it ranks.
Key Features
- 37 µm dry polyester weave that resists wetting, rated at 4,500 l/m²/sec
- 91.8 % of 37-micron particles held back in Sprint Filter's own measurement
- Assembled on a carbon fibre WorldSBK frame instead of a moulded throwaway surround
- Threads from ø 22 microns across in the polyester — a fibre dimension, not an opening size
- Fits the series airbox of the 959 without cutting, repositioning or remapping
- Designed for the life of the machine and warranted for two years from purchase
Reading a percentage properly
A retention figure is the result of a specific test with a specific dust, and it travels no further than that test. Comparing a fine-particle result with a coarse-particle one produces a number that looks like a conclusion and is not one. The honest use of these figures is within a single test: on the 100-micron measurement both P08 weaves beat four-layer oiled cotton at 76.42 % comfortably, which says something about oil. Across tests they say nothing at all.
What the 959 gets from the wet weave
A medium that keeps working in rain, and one that is washed deliberately rather than thrown out once damp. The cost side is just as plain: 4,500 l/m²/sec sits a little under the 5,050 of the standard panel, so a small amount of throughput is spent for finer filtration and weather tolerance. It is not a power part. An element in an unmodified airbox does not make a standard Panigale 959 noticeably faster, and this one makes no such claim; it is listed here under model years 2012 to 2019 as a conditions choice, nothing more.
Care and cleaning
Air line, clean side, outward — that is the whole routine, and it suits a dry medium. Use water only where air has been beaten: hand-warm, mild detergent, rinsed until the run-off is colourless. Then set it aside to dry in ambient air for as long as that takes, with nothing warm anywhere near it, because heat is the one thing that ends a polyester weave early. It goes back into the airbox dry, with no oil, no spray and no dressing. The maintenance sheet is in the Downloads tab.
Fitment & Compatibility
Catalogued for the airbox of the Ducati Panigale 959 under model years 2012 to 2019. Five more Ducatis take the same assembly — the 899, 1199 and 1299 twins and the 955 cc V2 pair — each with its own attributed window in the Fitment tab.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Ducati Panigale 899 (2013–2015)
- Ducati Panigale V2 (2020–2024)
- Ducati Streetfighter V2 (2020–2024)
- Ducati Panigale 959 (2012–2019)
- Ducati Panigale 1199 (2012–2017)
- Ducati Panigale 1299 (2015–2019)
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