The 2012 MotoGP test season started with today’s first day of a three-day test at Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit. The Ducati Team took to the track with its Desmosedici GP12, and after official test rider Franco Battaini carried out the shakedown, Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden started the important work of finding a base setup.
Valentino Rossi himself has given fans the first glimpse of the new Ducati Desmosedici GP12 care of his Twitter account. He and team-mate Nicky Hayden will ride the new bike for the first time Tuesday at the first MotoGP pre-season test at Sepang, Malaysia. Yesterday a photo purporting to be of the new bike swept the [...]
Considering the disastrous results of the 2011 MotoGP season, Ducati could be forgiven for not showing off the new GP12 at their Wrooom event and instead focussing on Valentino Rossi’s snowboarding expertise. Although the company felt the need to produce a teaser video ahead of the Sepang 3 day test, in comments to the press Ducati [...]
Some photos are starting to leak out from Sepang, Malaysia just hours ahead of the first 2012 pre-season MotoGP test and the debut of the all new Ducati GP12 factory racer hurriedly designed and assembled over the winter break for riders Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden.
Happy Birthday to us and all that. Today Ducati News Today turns 3 years young. Just like a toddler we are getting more comfortable on our feet but there is still a long way to go. We have some big plans for 2012 mostly related to the fact that the opportunity to return to New Zealand as [...]
Ducati North America has announced 2011 motorcycle sales growth of 43 percent compared to 2010 and a record market share in all of it’s territories: US, Canada and Mexico. This result established North America as Ducati’s number one market for the first time ever.
Ducati may be playing its cards close to its chest ahead of the first 2012 pre-season MotoGP test at Sepang where we will get a look at the details and the performance of the new Ducati Desmosedici GP12 on January 31st, but satellite Ducati racer Karel Abraham seems to be under no gag order. His team [...]
Ducati celebrated today the start of production of a model they have high hopes for both on the street and the track. The company has begun production of the Ducati 1199 Panigale. All the Ducati employees got involved including the CEO, Gabriele Del Torchio. Plant Director Silvano Fini “baptized” one of the very first bike [...]
An important single-owner collection of 100 significant Ducati motorcycles along with some from Ducati Corse itself will be auctioned off . The presentation of the renowned Saltarelli Collection will see RM’s highly-anticipated Monaco auction extended to two-days in 2012, with the motorcycles magnificently complementing the roster of blue-chip automobiles. In addition to the Saltarelli Collection, [...]
Despite the fact that Ducati will not homologate the 1199 Panigale for World Superbike competition in 2012, thanks to one enterprising race team fans will be able to cheer on the new Ducati Superbike in a high profile national championship. Moto Rapido will enter not one but two of the new Bologna Bullets into the [...]
