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Ducati North America has announced the details of its “All Roads Lead to Pikes Peak” owners gathering’ the inaugural Ducati event to support the Spider Grips racing team at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.

Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi earned the fourth and ninth best times, respectively, during the first two free-practice sessions at the French Grand Prix today at Le Mans. During the afternoon session, the American found a good feeling with his GP11, and he hopes to continue at the same level over the course of the [...]

Two years ago we brought you the opportunity to buy your own genuine Factory Ducati Superbike. Not an R model, not an RS, but a genuine World Superbike spec factory Ducati 999F06 as raced in the BSB from the days when the BSB machines were just as trick as the bikes in the World Superbike [...]

World Superbike points leader Carlos Checa shrugged off the expected lack luster results from last weekends Monza races to set the fastest time at Misano yesterday concluding two days of official testing. Checa recorded a lap that was under the lap record.

This Sunday, the Ducati Marlboro Team will take on the French Grand Prix for the fourth round of the season, at the Le Mans circuit that is also home to auto racing’s famous 24 hour race. That said, the track used by the MotoGP series is much shorter than the over 13 kilometer (8 mile) [...]

We all know that riding motorcycles is dangerous a passion to have. For Mark Brereton, he faced perhaps our worst fear, he became paralyzed when he crashed at Barber Motorsports Park while practicing for an AMA race. Doctors said he would never walk again. Four years later, he returned to Barber once again and rode [...]

Whilst Carlos Checa, Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden are racing for glory with their modern Ducatis, a 30 year old Ducati Pantah, father of all current Ducati engines quietly took a championship title in the antipodes at the hands of ducatista Phil Bagshaw.

Ducati is very proud of its racing achievements. The company’s boilerplate includes the lines ‘Ducati builds racing-inspired motorcycles …. Competing in MotoGP since 2003, Ducati won both the Constructors’ and Riders’ world titles in 2007.’ Now the company has plans to have the MotoGP Desmosedici shine its halo of success onto the radical, next generation [...]

Althea Ducati’s Carlos Checa will start the 4th round of the World Superbike at Monza tomorrow from the third row of the grid after a taxing day. Checa closed a hard fought Superpole in eleventh position on his Ducati which was no match for the overpowering speed of the 4 cylinder machines and Max Biaggi’s [...]

Ducati North America is set to launch the 2011 Monster Challenge customization competition to identify the most creative Ducati riders in the nation. All 2008 and later new-generation Ducati Monster owners are encouraged to enter for a chance to win the grand prize, a weeklong trip for two to the Ducati factory in Bologna, Italy [...]