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.
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.
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.
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.
Fans, snow and a brand-new 1199 Ducati Panigale Tricolore, displayed in the reception area of the Wrooom conference room at Madonna di Campiglio, welcomed the arrival of Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden for the twenty-second edition of the Wrooom Press Ski Meeting.
Nicky Hayden’s winter vacation was marred on Tuesday, December 27, when he broke his left scapula and fractured two ribs while training near his home in Owensboro, Kentucky. Hayden was training at a private indoor flat track facility, riding a motorcycle for the first time since breaking his scaphoid at the Valencia Grand Prix on [...]
Always wanted to ask 9 time World Champion Valentino Rossi a question? Now you can thanks to Dainese and AGV. The companies are providing an opportunity for fans to put questions to the racing star that he will answer during a live online event.
