The Ducati Test Team, directed by Technical Director Filippo Preziosi, has completed three days of testing on the Spanish circuit of Jerez de La Frontera, with Carlos Checa and Franco Battaini followed by in the pit garage by Team Manager, Vittoriano Guareschi.
Here is your first chance to hear the 2012 Ducati 1199 Panigale run up hard on the dyno care of Motociclismo. If you have one on order or just have a pandering for one, sit back, relax, close your eyes having first turned up the sound.
Ducati has given its overhauled Desmosedici racer its first test ahead of the official MotoGP test scheduled for Sepang, Malaysia at the end of the month. In a closed test session at Jerez, riders Franco Battaini and World Superbike Champion Carlos Checa have put the new bike through its paces.
Our friends at Rocket Garage have done it once again. This time they have discovered an elemental cafe racer based on the cheap and underrated Ducati 900SS.
Valentino Rossi showed the Ferrari Formula 1 drivers that despite his recent slump in 2-wheel on track performance he was still a formidable talent on 4 wheels. Rossi wiped the floor with the F1 stars in the Kart race but could do no better than 2nd in the Fiat 500 event.
Ducati has once again held its MotoGP Wrooom Press Ski Meeting. Last year the event was the coming out party for Valentino Rossi with Ducati and the bikes were proudly on display. After a frankly disastrous 2011 MotoGP season the team are understandably walking softly. Let’s hope they are also carrying a big stick. We bring you [...]
Despite an entire event ostensively all about their new Ducati GP12, Ducati Corse General Manager Felippo Preziosi went to great effort to say very little about what is expected to be an entirely new engine and chassis for Valentino Rossi’s and Nicky Hayden’s assault on the 2012 MotoGP title.
Perhaps disappointed with the performance of the Ducati MotoGP team and their reluctance to utilize an aluminum beam frame on their prototype racer, French Ducatista Jacques Del Campo built his own aluminum framed special to show the factory the way.
The Ducati Team riders were the stars of the first day of Wrooom 2012 at Madonna di Campiglio, with Nicky Hayden first to “take to the track” and answer questions from the international press in attendance. The American, who is recovering well enough from his injured left scapula that he has already removed his sling, [...]
2011 World Superbike Champion, Carlos Checa, has concluded that Bridgestone tires are to blame for the woeful 2011 MotoGP season suffered by Ducati factory riders Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden. After testing the MotoGP racer, Carlos has stated that he believes the tires and not the chassis are the problem.
