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Ducati contest offers 5 passes to see GP12 unveiling live

24 March, 2020
Ducati is continuing the hype on the unveiling the the GP12 and has started a contest that will give five fans the opportunity to meet Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden and personally see the presentation of the new Desmosedici GP12…

Brad Pitt spotted on Kimura cafè racer

24 March, 2020
Brad Pitt was spotted in L.A. on Monday riding this splendid café racer that he ordered last year from custom builder Shinya Kimura.Dubbed ‘Flash’ and built around a 1974 Ducati 750 SS engine, the Kimura bike according to celebritygossip.net had…

WSBK Brno: Michel Fabrizio Returns to the Top in QP2

24 March, 2020
Four Ducati’s in the top five spots with a lonely Aprilia in second spot. Michel Fabrizio headed the top of the timesheets in this morning’s QP2 at Brno with an impressive 1′58″695 lap grabbed in the dying minutes of the…

WSBK: Lorenzo Lanzi to Return to DFX Corse

24 March, 2020
According to Italian website Motosprint, Italian rider Lorenzo Lanzi will be returning to Superbike team DFX Corse to subsitute Regis Laconi once again.Lanzi subbed for Laconi for five rounds before being axed for Fonzie Nieto. Both Anthony West e 125…

Ducat and Rossi magic: Mugello GP presales up 45%

24 March, 2020
Talk about black, but in this case red and yellow magic. Put Valentino Rossi and Ducati together and what do get, presales event tickets going through the roof, at least for the Gran Premio d’Italia at the Mugello that takes…

Energy T.I. to sponsor Andrea Iannone in Pramac

24 March, 2020
Energy T.I (Trading International) yesterday announced that they will be sponsoring the Juventus Football club this season, but the Italian energy company that has been on the market since 2008, has also decided to make a foray into the world…

MotoGP Estoril Images – Part 1

24 March, 2020
This is the first part of our picture gallery from the MotoGP weekend at Estoril, where Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo dominated the race.MotoGP Estoril 2009 Images Part 1

Special: Desmo Tracker by RSD

24 March, 2020
The idea in itself was just crazy: taking Ducati Desmosedici RR’s frightening 197 hp engine and build a dirt track bike around it. Come on, just tearing it off from where it is supposed to stay sounds like blasphemy to…

Santa Carlos Checa (w/video)

24 March, 2020
Last year Carlos Checa made up an original sonnet to share with fans for the Christmas season, but this year the 2011 World Superbike champion has become a modern day Santa Claus for Ducati.No reindeers or sled for Santa Checa,…

Ferrari: 'The door is always open for Rossi'

24 March, 2020
Let’s face it it’s off season and Italian sports journalists and fans are bored, so when they get Ferrari’s Stefano Domenicali in a Q&A interview at the Bologna Motor Show, one of the questions naturally has to be that old…

Arie Vos, Dutch Champion at Doha

24 March, 2020
Today we give a brief profile of Arie Vos, the friendly Dutchman, who won Dutch Open Superbike Championship (ONK) for this year with his Ducati. He also went together with Kari Vehniainen from Finland and the German Matti Seidel, to…

After the hype: the Ducati GP11 to become Rossi's new M1?

24 March, 2020
The Italians were beside themselves over the MotoGP Valencia tests this week as Valentino Rossi took to the track for the first time on the Ducati GP11. But after a relatively positive first day, the second day of testing turned…

Ducati Monster "cowboy style"

24 March, 2020
It’s hard to figure out what the owner of this Ducati Monster was expecting to get when he decided to customize it that way, putting random pieces of leather on the bodywork in an attempt it to give it some…

Video: Nicky Hayden on the Ducati GP12

24 March, 2020
We have to apologize for thinking that Ducati only wanted to milk the publicity cow with the video of Valentino Rossi riding the GP12 at Jerez, instead they’ve now released footage of Nicky Hayden on the new bike.Too bad that…

MotoGP Assen: Lorenzo Fastest Also in Warm-Up

24 March, 2020
Fastest in both practices, fastest in qualifying and Jorge Lorenzo was also the fastest in this morning’s warm-up session at Assen. The Spaniard laid down a series of fast laps, five in the 1.35 mark and then four in the…

Ben 'Elbowz' Spies Flies in Superpole Knockout

24 March, 2020
Texan WSBK rookie Ben Spies on his Yamaha YZF R1 took his first Superpole win of the season during the new Superpole formula session at Phillip Island in Australia, also smashing the lap record to that was held by Troy…

WSBK – Fabrizio gets the kiss of death?

24 March, 2020
Take a look at this video of Davide Tardozzi hugging Michel Fabrizio at the parc ferme after race 2 at Portimao and what the guys who posted the video compared it to. Hilarious.After all the controversy surrounding the lack of…

MotoGP Sepang FP1 – Jorge Lorenzo strikes back

24 March, 2020
In the opening free practice at the Sepang circuit in Mayasia it was Jorge Lorenzo who topped the time sheets followed by a very close Casey Stoner who was just 0.064s from the Fiat Yamaha rider.Dani Pedrosa took third place…

Nicky Hayden promotes safe riding for the armed forces

24 March, 2020
Back in October, CNN ran an interesting story about Marine motorcycle deaths having killed more Marines in the past 12 months than enemy fire in Iraq and that the Navy was also reporting similar rises in motorcycle accidents by miltary…

MotoGP Aragon: Nicky Hayden quickest in another wasted FP1

24 March, 2020
After last year’s power outages, today’s MotoGP’s free practice at the Motorland Aragon circuit was hugely delayed after Moto3 FP1 was red flagged following Danny Kent’s crash with his Mahindra. The four remaining minutes of the Moto3 session were then…

3D Cup- Dutch Dealer Ducati Supports Women Riders

24 March, 2020
Open class racing in six different countries and supported by Ducati Europe, the Dutch Ducati Dealer Cup or 3D Cup for Ducati riders only, will be entering it’s fifth year of competition.Last year saw three female riders take up the…

WSBK Imola progressive results: Race 1

24 March, 2020
As we wait to see whether Max Biaggi can steal a win off the Race 1 winner Carlos Checa in Race 2 at Imola today, the local Italian crowd has had the pleasure of seeing Michele Pirro win in the…