After a stunning debut in the newly created World Superbike Championship with Marco Lucchinelli, Ducati hired Frenchman Raymond Roche for its second assault on the title in 1989. Unlike the first year, Ducati contested all the rounds and Roche arrived at Sydney’s Oran Park on the blood red Ducati 888 ready to do battle with [...]
The Redux series is all about bringing back blasts from the past that our newer readers may not have caught first time around. This time we have a gorgeous, highly modified 1993 Ducati 888SPO that displaces 955cc.
The Ducati that makes our heart beat fastest here at Ducati News Today is the very first 4-valve Ducati, the 851. Less pretty than the stunning Tamburini 916 that followed in 1994, the most desirable ones are the limited edition SP models that acted to homologate the racers that Raymond Roche and Doug Polen campaigned. [...]
Davide Tardozzi is known mostly as the former Ducati team manager who defected to BMW at the end of last year, but he was also an accomplished racer in his own right. His 1991 European Superbike Championship winning factory Ducati 888 (pictured) is will shortly be for sale.
Carl Fogarty or King Carl to his adoring fans is a Ducati legend winning all his 4 World Superbike titles on a Ducati. He raced three quarters of a season in 1991 on a Honda Britain RC30 regularly finishing in the top 10 but couldn’t secure a good ride for 1992. Short of money and [...]
Stephan Mertens had a disastrous year in 1992 on his factory Ducati 888, ultimately finishing 7th in the World Superbike title chase without winning a single race, his worse performance since the series began in 1988. Things were looking up in the penultimate round of the series though when he took 3rd in Race 1 [...]
Something rare passed through eBay recently, a 1989 Ducati 888 Lucchinelli Replica. Although this bike is claimed to be new and one of just 20 made, $75,000 is a lot of money. What is the Ducati 888 Lucchinelli Replica? Read on.
The Lion of Jesi He brought a motocross derived style to World Superbikes in the late 80′s along with a sense of Italian crash or win flair. Almost frightening to watch, he was nevertheless fast enough to bother giants of the class such as Raymond Roche, Carl Fogarty and Scott Russell. Inevitably, given his aggression, [...]
March 1987. Daytona, Florida. Home of the prestigious Daytona 200 Superbike race where future 3 time 500GP World Champion Wayne Rainey took victory for Honda. Something important though was happening in one of the support classes. A prototype from a small, Italian manufacturer ridden by a former 500GP champ cleaned up the Battle of the [...]
A very rare 1992 Ducati 888SP4 has come up for sale in the USA. The SP range of Ducati Superbikes were the closest you could get to a Superbike on the road at the time featuring specifications close to the factory racers.
