Hector Barbera’s Ducati Desmosedici GP10 racer won’t be hard to spot this season. The Aspar team run by Jorge Martinez has the Spanish Yellow Pages (‘Paginas Amarillas Aspar Team’) as its major sponsor, hence the bright yellow color. Barbera is one of 5 Ducati riders in this year’s MotoGP championship which kicks off at Losail, [...]
The 2010 Ducati Multistrada 1200 launch event has just concluded in Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Time to summarize the various reports coming in from the motorcycling community. Motorcycle News, admittedly known for its hyperbole, claims “The 2010 Ducati Multistrada is so good, it heralds a new era, moving motorcycle design onto the next stage.” Bold claim. [...]
The 2010 AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike season kicked off with the annual running of the Daytona 200. The full results are after the jump.
Artists of a motorcycling bent love to draw Ducati because, let’s face it, the evocative manufacturer has a certain je ne sais quoi! Nicolas Petit, is a French motorcycle mechanic by day and author of this Ducati Desmosedici RR Trike concept by night.
Larry Pegram will start the first American Superbike race of the 2010 season from the front row after the Team Foremost Ducati 1198R rider qualified 2nd behind Jordan Suzuki’s Aaron Yates.
The Ducati 1198 is hardly known as having a wimpy mid-range but it sure looks that way when compared to the dyno chart for the new 2010 Ducati Multistrada 1200. Newly released factory dyno charts indicate that the new Multi kills the 1198 at the bottom end as was expected given its milder cam timing. [...]
Team Foremost Larry Pegram’s Ducati 1198R set the pace during the first practice session today at Daytona for the opening round of the 2010 America Superbike Championship. Pegram lapped the circuit in a 1:40.280 just ahead of Josh Hayes on the factory Yamaha.
Ducati has updated its Ducati Multistrada 1200 microsite to include videos of the bike in action in each of its four modes: Sport, Touring, Urban and Enduro.
As Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps moves closer to release this April, more details of Ducati involvement in the sequel to the famous Wall Street have been revealed in the theatrical trailer. A Ducati Streetfighter S and Ducati Desmosedici both feature in the movie along with the US made MotoCzysz.
The very first verdicts from launch testing of the new 2010 Ducati Multistrada 1200 are beginning to appear and rather predictably the technological tour de force is taking some getting to used to. However MCN have declared the bike the new benchmark for the class based on first impressions.
