We have written before about the business bomb that was the Ducati 999 which was rapidly replaced with the highly successful 1098/1198 series of Superbikes. There is one area however where the 999 range reigns supreme. Surprisingly it is in racing.
Ducati has always provided the faithful with the closest approximation to race bikes on the road starting with the original 750SS. When the World Superbike series began, Ducati was right there with the 1988 851 Kit which led to a series of ever faster, desirable homologation specials. The current model is the 1198R which is [...]
Ducati has announced it’s 2010 lineup and it is a formidable range that includes the brand new Multistrada 1200, revised Hypermotard Evo and Evo SP, Corse special edition 1198S and 1198R, ABS as an option for the Monsterrange and the return of a Dark model with the848 Dark. In a series of articles Ducati News [...]
5 months after a horrific crash during practice for the Kyalami, South Africa round of the World Superbike Championship, Régis Laconi was back on a Ducati once again for a couple of demonstration laps at last weekend’s Magny Cours round in France.
Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday. Every week I will post up something beautiful from the world of Ducati that you just might like to have grace your desktop. This week we have a beautiful custom painted Ducati 1098R.
Ducati has been noticeably absent from one of the most competitive domestic Superbike series in the world this year, the British Superbike Championship (BSB). Now the twin is back at least for the final two rounds of the 2009 BSB championship with Michael Rutter on board.
Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday. Every week I will post up something beautiful from the world of Ducati that you just might like to have grace your desktop. This week we have a great shot of Larry Pegram’s Ducati 1098R AMA Superbike.
Foremost Insurance Pegram Ducati’s Larry Pegram will race this weekend in the AMA Pro American Superbike season finale at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Pegram looks to top off a successful season in New Jersey, one that has seen him earn three victories during his return season to the Superbike class.
The Ducati 1098R is the epitome of the homologation special. Expensive, exotic and high performance in more or less equal measures, the bike is designed to be a high performance clothes horse that can be draped in go faster bits to help Noriyuki Haga et al do their thing in the World Superbike Championship. The [...]
The train spotters amongst you may have noticed that the factory Ducati 1098R F09 Superbikes as ridden by Messieurs Haga and Fabrizio have 1198 boldly plastered on the side of the fairing, not 1098R like the top flight streetbike. There is a good reason for this of course, since from this year, the entire family [...]
