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WSBK Imola Race 1- Haga Bounces Back

29 March, 2020
Italian engineering ruled during race one of the WSBK Championship at Imola. The podium saw Noriyuki Haga on Ducati take first, Max Biaggi on the Aprilia RSV4 take second and Haga’s team mate Michel Fabrizio, third place.Max Biaggi led most…

Niccolò Canepa joins Barni Racing's World Superstock Team in 2013

29 March, 2020
Niccolò Canepa’s World Superbikes rookie season with Red Devils Roma team ended during the Nurburgring round when he crashed out during practice sustaining multiple fractures to his right tibia and fibula.The young Italian rider will no longer be racing in…

Ducati Terra Mostro (finally) in production!

29 March, 2020
Less than a year ago we had a look at the Ducati Terra Mostro, a monster 695 in a cross version with off road wheels and modifications to the braking system, exhaust and forks.What then seemed liked an interesting do-it-yourself…

Red Devils Roma may field two riders in WSBK in 2013

29 March, 2020
World Superbike Red Devils Roma Ducati team has picked up an important sponsorship deal with Italian holding firm General Invest that will back the team for the final three rounds of this season and more importantly confirms the team will…

Silly Season: Ducati offers a Blank Cheque to Valentino Rossi?

29 March, 2020
We thought that silly season had died down with Valentino Rossi out of action, and everyone involved was now finally working quietly behind the scenes, but apparently we were wrong, because Spanish website motocuatro.com citing RTVE MotoGP commentator and journo…

Maurizio Arrivabene: "We believe in Ducati's project"

29 March, 2020
Sponsors are usually silent partners, but they’re are the ones that fodder teams pockets and allows them to continue racing and they often wield power that goes beyond seeing their names on the livery.Many of you may remember Maurizio Arrivabene,…

Shane Byrne heading back to BSB in 2011?

29 March, 2020
Last weekend was Shane Byrne’s last race for Althea Racing Team (who may field only Carlos Checa next season) and the British rider after spending two years in World Superbikes and finishing 10th in this year’s standings, may be heading…

MotoGP Valencia – Casey Stoner Crash Video

29 March, 2020
It didn’t take long for someone to put Casey Stoner’s sighting warm up lap crash at Valencia on YouTube, let’s see how long it takes Dorna to take it off.Ducati’s Fillippo Preziosi was hard up in trying to explain Stoner’s…

Ducati Desmosedici Day at Donington

29 March, 2020
Donington Park woke up yesterday to the roaring sound of 60 privately owned Ducati Desmosedici RR’s.Organized by Ducati UK, it was the first ever Desmosedici track day and these owners got to ride the full MotoGP circuit.As well as riding…

NCR and Ducati North America together with Canadian Superbikes

29 March, 2020
Ducati North America has announced that Team NCR, officially sponsored, will compete in the 2008 championship of Parts Canada Superbike with two Ducati 848 Superbikes racing in the Canadian Thunder National category.The two riders of team NCR will be the…

Ducati 1098 vs Nissan GT-R Skyline

29 March, 2020
After the defeat of a Ducati Hypermotard by the Caterham R500, the guys at Autocar have decided to up the ante, and pit a Ducati 1098 against a Nissan GT-R Skyline. The 1098 S has about 150 hp and weighs…

Ducati and Mercedes announces partnership

29 March, 2020
The new Ducati Diavel made its North American debut in Los Angeles alongside the new Mercedes-Benz CLS 63 AMG and look who was on hand to do the promo work and confirm the AMG Mercedes will infact be partnering Ducati.The…

Ducati 2012 Streetfighter 848 revealed

29 March, 2020
Well Nicky Hayden teased it last week from Bologna saying that Ducati would be revealing a new bike on Monday (which everyone knew would be the Streetfighter 848), and he was right.Here’s the first official images of the Italian manufacturers…

MotoGP Valencia Qualifying – Stoner Domination

29 March, 2020
Casey Stoner took his third pole position of the season dominating the qualifying session at Valencia turning in a blistering lap of 1.32’256 and a couple of great slides. Stoner beat Dani Pedrosa who was second by 0.263s. Third went…

Aleix Espargaro gets okay for Laguna Seca GP

29 March, 2020
Aleix Espargaro has gotten the green light from his doctor and will be racing at Laguna Seca this upcoming weekend.The Pramac Ducati rider was suspected of having sustained a vertebra fracture after crashing into Randy DePuniet’s Honda, but his doctor…

SBK 2009: new Gaundalini formation?

29 March, 2020
After the news about Jakub Smrz resigning for another year with the Italian Guandalini Superbike Team, the media have discovered more about the second Superbike rider who will join the team next year: the idea is to create a new…

Marco Borciani in Italian CIV

29 March, 2020
Many of you may not know that Shane Byrne’s Team Sterilgarda BRC Racing manager Marco Borciani is a rider himself and has twice won the Campionato Italiano Velocità (CIV) in 2006 and 2007. In 2008 he decided not to contest…

Ducati Streetfighter Sketches

29 March, 2020
It starts with an idea and then a few sketches and then it becomes the Ducati Streetfighter.Ducati Streetfighter Sketches

Carlos Checa takes command in QP2 at Nurburgring

29 March, 2020
Carlos Checa re-took command this morning during World Superbike’s QP2 at Nurburgring. The Spaniard slipped in a stunning 1’55.030 lap in the final minutes of the session to dispose of Eugene Laverty by almost four tenths of a second and…

WDW 2012: Ducati President announces record sales figures

28 March, 2020
During a press conference held at the World Ducati Week 2012, Ducati Motor Holding’s president, Mr.Gabriele Del Torchio, has highlighted Ducati’s constant growth and record-breaking sales (+12%) and revenues (+20% YTD) achieved by Ducati in May 2012. Ducati’s massive gathering…

Valencia Official Test Day 1 – Stoner fastest, as usual

28 March, 2020
After yesterday’s final GP race at Valencia that concluded the 2009 season, today began the first of three days of official testing in preparation for the 2010 that saw two new teams, new rookie riders and also several Moto2 bikes…

WSBK Portimao – Smrz heads FP1

28 March, 2020
The first free practice session for this weekend’s title bout between Ben Spies and Noriyuki Haga at the final round of the WSBK Championship in Portimao, opened with a couple of surprises, with Jakub Smrz from Guandalini Racing taking the…

Casey Stoner Ducati 1198 S Phillip Island Replica

28 March, 2020
Casey Stoner’s Ducati Desmosedici livery for the Phillip Island GP in 2009 was one of the best we’d seen and Ducati Metz dealer in France has decided to say good-by the 2007 World Champion who is heading to Honda HRC…

MotoGP Sachsenring: After the Race Rider Quotes

28 March, 2020
Dani Pedrosa’s win today at the German GP slightly closed the championship gap to Jorge Lorenzo, The Fiat Yamaha rider leads the standings with 185 points, while his closest rival Pedrosa is at 138 heading into next weekend’s Laguna Seca…