PJ Jacobsen, riding his Celtic Racing Fast By Ferracci Ducati 848, earned the second AMA Pro podium of his young racing career at Road America during the 4th round of the AMA Pro Racing Daytona Sportbike Championship.
After just two rounds of the 2011 AMA Pro Racing Championship, officials have acted to penalize the Ducati 848EVO in the Daytona Sportbike and Supersport classes by changing the minimum weight limits.
Ducati privateer and New York racer PJ Jacobsen scored a career best second place finish at this past weekend’s BigM AMA Pro Superbike event, which was held at Miller Motorsports Park, in Toole Utah. Racing in front of a global audience, Jacobson started the weekend out strong and asserted himself as an early frontrunner.
Ducati’s 848EVO remained top of the Daytona Sportbike class during a scheduled test session at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah. Following victory by Jason DiSalvo in the Daytona 200, 848 racers DiSalvo and PJ Jacobsen positioned themselves at the front of the Daytona Sportbike field during the 2 day test.
34 years after Cook Neilson won the AMA Superbike race at Daytona, Ducati has finally won the big race that has eluded it. Jason DiSalvo and Team Latus Motors Racing took the new Ducati 848EVO to victory in yesterday’s Daytona 200- the bike’s first professional road race.
Team Latus Motor’s Jason DiSalvo slotted in his Ducati 848EVO at the front of the Daytona Sportbike field during final qualifying like he had for most of practice at Daytona today, lapping far faster than his competitors for all but the very last lap when Jake Zemke’s Yamaha R6 dropped into the 1:49′s to take [...]
Ducati has their best chance in years of winning the coveted Daytona 200 race this weekend. If they are successful it would be a first 200 victory but not the first time a Ducati has won at the famous tri-oval circuit. 34 years ago a magazine editor took a private Ducati 750SS tuned by a [...]
The rev of the Ducati 848 last year to produce the 848EVO was primarily of benefit to Ducati racers in the USA. Unlike the previous 749, the 848 is ineligible for most racing series with the exception of the DMG AMA Pro Racing’s Daytona Sportbike class. Team Celtic Racing / Fast By Ferracci Ducati will [...]
The 2011 Motorcycle racing season is going to be one hell of a knock down, drag out affair. For Ducati fans we have Valentino Rossi on a Ducati in MotoGP, Loris Capirossi returning to a Ducati with the Pramac team and more. In Superbikes, the factory team will be gone but Carlos Checa will be [...]
Eraldo Ferraci, the famous Ducati tuner behind the World Superbike and AMA success of 2 time World Champion Doug Polen, will return to competition next season with P. J. Jacobsen, Celtic Racing and the new Ducati 848EVO.
