Bad weather continued to affect the MotoGP world championship today at Mugello, where rain made a brief appearance that cut the amount of useful time in the qualifying session in half. Nicky Hayden found a good dry setup this morning that improved his feeling with the bike, but he couldn’t take full advantage of it [...]
Both of Valentino Rossi’s Ducati GP11.1 machines were brought to a halt during the opening practice session today for the critical Italian MotoGP in Mugello. After a disappointing qualifying performance in Assen, the team would have been hoping for a significantly better outing in Italy at a track Vale knows well, has taken numerous MotoGP [...]
Commensurate with the recent surge in its brand equity, Ducati has opened a lifestyle store in Rome’s main airport, Fiumicino. Similar conceptually to the Ferrari store in Milan Malpensa, punters get the chance to buy nice, expensive swag whilst they pass the time waiting for their flight. I wonder what the duty free price on [...]
