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Ducati Streetfighter and Streetfighter S clothing range

18 April, 2020
Here’s the full clothing line for the Ducati Streetfighter, complete with Fighter jacket, Flow light jacket, DTR 09 helmet, Performance seamless SS t-shirt, Ducati Corse 09 leather gloves and Flag trousers. And we thought getting the Streetfighter was just about…

Valentino Rossi 2011 Mugello replica helmet

18 April, 2020
We’re dubbing Valentino Rossi’s 2011 Mugello helmet “The Eye” although we gather that’s not its official name. In any case, there will be an AGV Rossi Mugello replica version to celebrate the helmet there’s no way we’d want to ride…

Ducati collectors items: A stamp in honour of 2007's victory

18 April, 2020
Soccer teams that win the championship, Italy as World Cup winners in Germany, the 100 year anniversary of Juventus…most commemorative stamps in Italy, until now, have always been dedicated almost exclusively to sporting achievements relative to soccer. But…!The MotoGP title…

WSBK: Guandalini Racing drops Roberts for Lavilla

18 April, 2020
Gregorio Lavilla will be replacing Brendan Roberts in Guandalini Racing for the rest of the WSBK season. Insistent rumors at the begining of the month were already talking of the Australian rider being substituted with the Spaniard, infact Lavilla’s wildcard…

Motogp Misano – Rossi Dominates in Home Race

18 April, 2020
It was a field of waving yellow flags and hats that welcomed Valentino Rossi who won his 6th race and the 13th round of the MotoGP championship at the Misano GP.The opening lap of race was marred by Alex DeAngelis…

Max Biaggi to test the Ducati GP13 at Mugello

18 April, 2020
This upcoming Thursday and Friday, Ducati riders will be back on track at the Mugello circuit for a private test to prepare for the Catalunya GP in two weeks time.Besides the contracted riders and Michele Pirro who will be filling…

Ducati Hypermotard 796 onboard video

18 April, 2020
Here’s Tor Sagen again, this time with the onboard video of the new Ducati Hypermotard 796. Check out his exploits on the Moto Morini Granpasso 1200 and the new MV Agusta 2010 Brutale. We’ll be bringing you more details and…

Ducati Diavel shows up in italian stores. Pictures

18 April, 2020
The Ducati Diavel is ignoring the skepticism of Italian Ducati fans and has turned up in some swanky Mercedes stores across the country. None other than Milan’s Vittorio Emanuele gallery is home to the Diavel, which is also housed in…

Pata Racing World Superbike team switches from Aprilia to Ducati

18 April, 2020
World Superbike Pata Racing after confirming Lorenzo Zanetti late last month as their rider for the 2012 season has now also confirmed the rumors that they would be switching manufacturers, dropping the Aprilia RSV4 and returning to Ducati and specifically…

WSBK Donington – Spies on Superpole

18 April, 2020
Ben Spies has set his eighth World Superbike pole position of the season at Donington Park this afternoon after doing a 1:29.846 to best Aprilia’s Max Biaggi’s 1:30.080.Spies timing was perfect because a light rain began to fall towards the…

WSBK – Davide Tardozzi has to defend himself

18 April, 2020
Ducati Xerox team manager Davide Tardozzi has been getting a lot of flak from Italian Ducatisti fans (we’ve personally read them) since Sunday afternoon, when Noriyuki Haga lost the WSBK championship to Ben Spies by only six points.Many were angrily…

Vitto Guareschi: We don't have a plan B if Valentino leaves

18 April, 2020
Vittoriano Guareschi and his brother Gianfranco ‘Guaro’ have been long time friends with Valentino Rossi, even before the former World Champion arrived in Ducati in 2011, but speaking as Ducati’s team manager to the Gazzetta dello Sport, Guareschi seems to…

Troy Bayliss at Mugello with Ducati test team

18 April, 2020
After Sunday’s MotoGP race at Le Mans where Valentino Rossi finished 2nd, Ducati packed up everything and headed to Mugello for a three-day private test that will start today, with Ducati test rider Franco Battaini giving a shakedown to the…

Volkswagen looking for a motorcycle producer, regrets Ducati

18 April, 2020
Originally reported by Milanese newspaper the Corriere della Sera, and indicated to us by reader lord_randal, Volkswagon apparently wants to enter the motorbike market.Over at Volkswagon they’re missing a bike manufacturer to complete their range of products. Confirming this was…

Carlos Checa celebrates another victory at Silverstone

17 April, 2020
Carlos Checa celebrated not only Ducati’s 300th victory in World Superbikes with his win in race 1 at Silverstone, but in race 2 he also celebrated his own 100th Superbike race with another comfortable victory, with Eugene Laverty and Marco…

MotoGP Assen Final Rider Quotes

17 April, 2020
Jorge Lorenzo was unstoppable at the TT Circuit Van Drenthe at Assen in today’s MotoGP race. ‘Porfuera’ now has four victories in five races, including today, and has 140 points and is leading by 47 points from second place Dani…

Moto Rapido Ducati is rapido in changing an engine (w/video)

17 April, 2020
Rizla Suzuki’s time lapsed videos must have impressed British Superbike EVO team Moto Rapido Ducati enough to have filmed their own, showing how they changed the engine on Scott Smart’s 1198R during last weekend’s Brands Hatch round.Smart managed a 9th…

Update on Regis Laconi

17 April, 2020
From DFX Corse Press Release:Regis Laconi’s medical state remains unchanged. The French rider, currently in the intensive car department of the Sunninghill Hospital in Johannesburg, is still in a drug-induced coma and breathes only with assistance. In the medical consultation…

Images from Round 7 WSBK at MMP

17 April, 2020
Check out this gallery of pics from this weekend’s seventh round of the World Superbike Race at Millersports Park, Utah.Images from WSBK at MMP

Ducati Desmosedici RR top speed test

17 April, 2020
Amongst all the tests done by the riders of MCN, for us, this video particularly stood out. On the seat of a Ducati Desmosedici RR, a “MotoGP replica”, the rider takes the red machine to its highest speed along a…

There Was A Ducati for De Angelis

17 April, 2020
Sportmediaset website has revealed that Ducati was willing to put a sixth Desmosedici on the grid for Alex De Angelis, but he missed out on their deadline due to the long negotiations that the rider had with Scot Racing.De Angelis…

Radical Ducati 7½ Sportiva – images and details

17 April, 2020
We have been introducing quite a few Radical Ducati models in recent months, and the reason for that is that this bunch of Spaniards definitely know their way around a Ducati. The Madrid-based workshop led by founders Pepo Rosell and…