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Ducati today posted its teaser video for the new 2012 Ducati 1199 Panigale. The name Panigale was recently trademarked along with SuperQuadro which now seems to be the name for the ultra short stroke V-twin.

The 14th round of the 2011 MotoGP World Championship saw Valentino Rossi debut yet another version of the Ducati Desmosedici, this time featuring some aluminum in the GP11.1 chassis. Since this modification meant that his older engines couldn’t be used, he took a 7th engine and thus became the first rider to run foul of [...]

Ducatisti eagerly await the 2012 Ducati 1199 Superbike, which may be called SuperQuadro, as we count down to the EICMA show this November in Milan. While we impatiently wait, we thought we’d bring you the various photos of the bike which have leaked, deliberately or otherwise, onto the web in one single place. Enjoy.

If you always thought you could create a kick ass Streetfighter out of a Ducati Desmoseidici RR you now have your chance. A sad and wrecked example of Ducati’s 2008 MotoGP refugee is about to be auctioned off.

The Aragon weekend was particularly challenging for the Ducati Team and its riders, who are working to speed up the development of the Desmosedici. On one hand, the choice to use a seventh engine for Valentino Rossi enables his team to have two identical motorcycles available to work on during the last races of the [...]

The qualifying session for the Aragon Grand Prix saw Nicky Hayden post the seventh-best time, equaling his own best qualifying performance of the season. The result will have him starting from the third row in tomorrow’s race, for which the weather forecast is uncertain. Valentino Rossi was a little less fortunate, as his qualifying effort [...]

A short, amateurish video featuring none other than 3 time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss posted on Ducati’s official YouTube channel today teases an announcement from Ducati scheduled for next Wednesday. What is it?

An electrical blackout at Aragon meant that the second practice session of the day had to be cancelled and this limited the opportunities for Valentino Rossi to demonstrate whether his new aluminum framed Ducati Desmosedici GP11.1 was the improvement he was hoping for.

How do these Spanish Ducati artisans keep pumping them out? It seems each incarnation of a custom Ducati from Radical Ducati is tricker and more lust inducing than the one that came before. This time they have unleashed their talents on a modern belt drive Ducati 900SS.

Valentino Rossi will race yet another incarnation of the Ducati Desmosedici MotoGP machine this weekend at the Aragon MotoGP this time featuring a modified monocoque chassis made of aluminum.