Ducati will return to Pikes Peak in 2012 for the 90th running of the “Race to the Clouds.” Defending champion and Pikes Peak motorcycle record holder, Carlin Dunne, will join six-time Pikes Peak winner, Greg Tracy, in an effort to defend the title for Ducati. To remind you of what the race is like, check [...]
After just two races, Althea Ducati today announced that they are putting an end to their FIM Supersport campaign with Federico Sandi. Both races were red flagged meaning that neither Sandi nor the Ducati 1199 Panigale had a complete opportunity to show their true potential.
The Ducati Team has transferred to Portugal for the third round of the MotoGP World Championship, which will take place on Sunday at Circuito Estoril, a track that, despite being notable for having the slowest average speed on the Grand Prix calendar, also includes some very fast sections like Turn 5, which is taken at [...]
No one would argue that the debut of Valentino Rossi for Ducati in 2011 was a disappointment of intergalactic proportions. Still Ducatisti, Ducati Corse, commentators and the MotoGP paddock itself did their best to keep a positive spin on things. After all, for all the disappointment, the doctor was still the fastest Ducati racer on the [...]
After a double podium for Althea men Carlos Checa and Davide Giugliano at a very wet Assen circuit ten days ago, the team now returns to Italy, and Monza, for round 4 of the 2012 World Superbike Championship. The Monza track is one of the most difficult for the Ducati due to its 1195m straightway, [...]
The second round of the 2012 MotoGP World Championship was another disappointing one for Ducati fans, especially after the pace of Valentino Rossi in the wet practice and with Nicky Hayden qualifying on the front row. There are only a few days before we get to see whether Portugal will bear any riper fruit. In [...]
Here at Ducati News Today we worried a little about how the short stroke, non belt cam drive Superquadro power plant might sound in the Ducati 1199 Panigale. Turns out we needn’t have worried. Here for yourself what a race prepped Ducati 1199 Panigale S sounds like with the full termignonni system after the jump.
The weekend’s last rain shower fell less than an hour before the Spanish Grand Prix, leaving time for the water to evaporate enough to have the race declared dry, so the MotoGP riders started on slick tyres. Nicky Hayden, who started from the first row, was involved in a back-and-forth battle for third place with [...]
The qualifying session for the MotoGP round in Jerez de la Frontera featured unpredictable weather conditions, as had been the case in all of the free-practice sessions. Nicky Hayden posted the third-best time on a mainly dry track, earning a spot on the front row with Lorenzo and Pedrosa.
A jubilant Valentino Rossi set the second fastest time in the wet second practice session at Jerez today behind only Dani Pedrosa. It seems that despite the aggressive power delivery of the Ducati GP12 the Ducati remains fast in the wet as it was last year. Rossi will make his 200th premier class start in the race [...]
