Valentino Rossi’s new Ducati Desmosedici GP11.1 seemed to return immediate dividends after he splashed his way around the wet Assen track ahead of Saturday’s Dutch TT recording the second fastest time behind Honda’s Marco Simoncelli. A crash in Moto2 put paid to any second practice today but the big bikes will be out for an [...]
Only hours after rumors ran rife in the Italian media that Ducati had a whole new bike planned for Valentino Rossi at this weekend’s Assen MotoGP, Ducati confirmed that their star racer would indeed take the grid on an evolution bike they dubbed the Ducati GP11.1 As the teams unloaded their bikes at the wet [...]
SoCal DMC, in collaboration with Red Bull and the Santa Monica Police Department, will host the first annual Desmo Owners Club Benefit BBQ to raise funds and awareness within the community for the Wings for LifeSpinal Cord Research Foundation and the LEEP (Law Enforcement Explorer Post) program offered by the SMPD to local youth this [...]
The withdrawal of the factory team in the World Superbike Championship has achieved just the opposite of what many detractors argued when the bombshell announcement was first made. At the half way mark in the 2011 series, Carlos Checa has amassed more points on his satellite ‘Althea’ Ducati than Noriyuki Haga managed in the whole [...]
A Ducati Multistrada 1200 has set a new lap record on a brand new racetrack in Louisiana – even before it has been paved!
The Ducati Marlboro Team, continuing its development process with the Desmosedici, will introduce a variety of new updates at Assen. Valentino Rossi will take to the track with the next generation of the bike, called the GP11.1. The design process for this bike began after the Sepang tests, with construction beginning after the riders approved [...]
With spyshots of the 2012 Ducati Superbike appearing recently at least one designer has had a crack at filling in the styling blanks. The bad news? He obviously thinks the Ducati styling department was inspired by the Beluga whale. Which is our way of saying, I hope the finished bike doesn’t look like the designs [...]
Carlos Checa gave it his all this afternoon at Motorland Aragon, taking a third place finish in Race 2 that was particularly appreciated by the Spanish fans at Carlos’ home track after crashing in the first race whilst chasing down early leaders Max Biaggi and Marco Melandri. Checa set a new lap record just before [...]
The seventh round of the World Superbike Championship got underway today at the new Spanish track of Motorland Aragon. Championship leader, team Althea rider Carlos Checa, quickly settled in and demonstrated his will to win on his home track, closing first qualifying in second position.
As we have reported, Troy Bayliss will be heavily involved in development of the 2012 Ducati Superbike variously referred to as the 1199, the Extreme and featuring the Superquadrata short stroke V-twin. Bayliss was on hand this week to test both the Superstock and Superbike versions of the bike and the 3 time champ tweeted [...]
