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2011 Pramac Racing team presentation, Love Boat style

22 April, 2020
While most teams do their yearly presentations at hotels or discos, except for the Ducati MotoGP team who does it from the mountains of the Dolomites, bringing in the bikes with helicopters or displaying them inside giant ice cubes, the…

WSBK Portimao Tests – Day 2 with rider quotes

22 April, 2020
Jonathan Rea was once again the fastest rider on the final day of testing at Portimao posting the fastest time of 1’41.7s. Rea’s lap on race tires was almost a second faster than his best qualifying time from the weekend…

MotoGP Silverstone: Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden fly in FP1

22 April, 2020
Instead of being the first free practice, today’s MotoGP’s opening practice at Silverstone looked more like qualifying. In the tough and risky conditions that the track was in, Valentino Rossi and team mate Nicky Hayden showed off the mysterious prowess…

Cardion AB MotoGP irked by Misano GP insinuations

22 April, 2020
Apparently there have been some nasty insinuations, in some obscure and convoluted way, that what happened to Dani Pedrosa during the Misano GP was somehow Karel Abraham and his team Cardion AB’s fault, and this has irked the Czech team…

Ducati Streetfighter video test

22 April, 2020
Tor Sagen from Raptors&Rockets, tested the new Ducati Streetfighter super-naked which you can see in the video above. More news from us to come on full technical specs and pics, including the “S” model. In the meantime have a look…

Ducati to debut the GP11.1 at Assen

22 April, 2020
That Ducati is hard at work is testified by the number of tests and development work they’re still doing on the GP11 trying to help Valentino Rossi get around his highly disappointing season (rumors have it that sponsor Phillip Morris…

Sneak peek at Rossi's Desmosedici GP 11

22 April, 2020
After seeing the color scheme on the leathers that Valentino Rossi will be wearing this season, check out the above photo from Rossi’s own personal website, where you can see a tiny piece of the tail section of the Ducati…

Valentino Rossi: "It would be nice to continue with Ducati"

22 April, 2020
It was Valentino Rossi’s first WDW (World Ducati Week) at the Misano World Circuit and while many thought (us included) that he’d get ripped apart by thousands of unsatisfied Ducati racing fans over his lagging performance in MotoGP, instead the…

Ducati Pantah rebirth

22 April, 2020
This new vintage provovation comes from Oberdan Bezzi and is a rendering of the Ducati Pantah: the unforgettable twin cylinder sports bike from the 1970’s.This design borrows the 696 engine from the Monster, and has been created to meet the…

Troy Bayliss visits Ducati Factory

22 April, 2020
Last Friday the new World Superbike Champion Troy Bayliss visited the Ducati factory for a photo shoot for an editorial project being dedicated to him.Desmoblog reports that Bayliss visited the Ducati Design Centre and took the opportunity to greet Ducati…

Ducati 1199 Panigale RS13 official video

22 April, 2020
“Ducati 1199 Panigale RS13 Superbike” is the exact name of Ducati’s racing weapon that will be debuting next season in the 2013 World Superbike championship. A year after its launch and tweleve months of development (between World Superstock, BSB, IDM)…

More on Regis Laconi

22 April, 2020
Regis Laconi returned home last Thursday and after a medical check at the hospital, the French rider was given the all clear and will not have to undergo in-clinic rehabilitation and will be able to continue his recovery directly at…

Ducati GP12 and GP11 bikes to be tested at Jerez GP

22 April, 2020
Despite all the clamour that has surrounded this weekend’s Jerez GP, another bit a news has surfaced that hopefully will bring some hope to Ducati MotoGP fans. It seems that the Italian manufacturer will testing it’s brand new 2012 bike…

82 -Year -Old Ted Fenwick Wins at TT

22 April, 2020
Don’t think that because someone is elderly that his passion for racing recedes like hairlines, because you to have to meet a very spry 82-year-old, that goes by the name of Ted Fenwick, who took victory in the Pre-TT Classic…

Ducati to officially present GP12 online

22 April, 2020
Since Ducati didn’t reveal Valentino Rossi’s and Nicky Hayden’s Desmosedici GP12 during this year’s Wroom event at Madonna di Campiglio, they’ll be doing the official presentation online March 19th at 1.00pm (CET).The live presentation will be available directly from the…

Carlos Checa fastest in final session at Moscow Raceway

22 April, 2020
In the final test session at Moscow Raceway ahead of this weekend’s first ever World Superbike Russian round, Carlos Checa once again headed the top of the timesheets after leading this morning session. Lap times were considerably lower with the…

Silly Season goes into overdrive

22 April, 2020
We’ve been following the silly season rumors and speculations for last couple of weeks and yesterday the season officially opened. Let’s recap what we’ve read and heard so far. Marco Simoncelli supposedly signed a two year 4.000.000 euro contract with…

Escapism: how to leave the city behind on a Ducati 1198SP. Video

22 April, 2020
Escapism by Barry Munsterteiger on Vimeo.This video is not a Ducati advert, it’s rather an experiment conducted by some passionate audio/video professionals form overseas to show off their skills as well as to celebrate all those feelings conveyed by riding…

WSBK Brno Rider Quotes

21 April, 2020
Today’s World Superbike races at Brno weren’t the usual exciting ones that we are usually used to, but Jonathan Rea made a great comeback from his recent disappointing results to take the win in Race 1 while Max Biaggi took…

Ducati and Pramac unveiling at Madonna di Campiglio

21 April, 2020
Looking more like a Ducati Christmas card then an official unveiling, here are several more shots of Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso with their GP13’s and the factory riders are joined by Ben Spies and Andrea Iannone with their Pramac…

Valentino Rossi to tie the knot with Ducati at Laguna Seca?

21 April, 2020
According to Italian daily Il Resto del Carlino, Valentino Rossi and Ducati have finally ironed out all the details regarding his contract with the Borgo Panigale manufacturer and the announcement will be officially made public at the Red Bull U.S.…