Just as Casey Stoner is about to return from sick leave and rejoin the MotoGP series at this weekend’s Portuguese GP at Estoril, the rumors swirling around the Australian Marlboro Ducati racer and 2007 World Champion have suddenly intensified as a senior Marlboro executive has called upon Stoner to apologize to the team for his [...]
Valentino Rossi is acknowledged as the Greatest Road Racer of all time (GOAT). The Italian Superstar is already an 8 time World Champion with 6 of those coming from the premier 500/MotoGP class and he is on track for a 9th win this year. However despite his status the record books continue to show that [...]
Haga Bounces Back to Series Lead The armchair pundits may have written Noriyuki Haga’s 2009 World Superbike Championship prospects off following a string of misfortune that saw him squander an 80 plus points lead, crash and injure himself at Donington Park, and lose the series points lead for the first time during the last round [...]
Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gecko told us that ‘Greed is Good’ in Wall Street in the 80′s back when Ducati was producing the 750F1. In the sequel which is being filmed now, Douglas returns as an older jail bird Gecko whilst young Shia LaBeouf stars alongside Carey Mulligan and a black Ducati Streetfighter S in Wall [...]
Nicky Hayden’s Ducati 848 replica has proved to be popular selling out quickly and now the Ducati MotoGP star has taken delivery of his own personal machine. Pity about his choice in riding garb!!
After gracefully bowing out on top at Portimao last year, 3-time and still reigning World Superbike Champion, Troy Bayliss, seemed to have done everything perfectly. The danger with both politicians and racers (all careers end in failure) is knowing when to stop and Bayliss went out on the pinnacle of his form. Champion and race [...]
Everyone was excited about the return to Imola for the World Superbike circus. This is the circuit that decided the 2002 season between Troy Bayliss and Colin Edwards (in Edward’s favor) and is the first meeting with Ben Spies in the points lead. However riders have turned only 2 laps in the first practice session [...]
The Xerox Ducati team managed to fit in a quick test at Mugello ahead of this weekend’s Imola World Superbike showdown. Sharing the track with Ducati MotoGP team, Noriyuki Haga turned times within 0.5 seconds of the MotoGP machine.
Ducati has been noticeably absent from one of the most competitive domestic Superbike series in the world this year, the British Superbike Championship (BSB). Now the twin is back at least for the final two rounds of the 2009 BSB championship with Michael Rutter on board.
With Xerox Ducati’s Noriyuki Haga losing the World Superbike Championship lead to Yamaha’s Ben Spies at the recent Nürburgring round a lot is riding on the Japanese riders reply if he is to have any real chance of finally claiming a championship after a decade of trying. His chance to do so is at Imola [...]
