After riding a Ducati 1198R Superbike as part of his pre-season testing workup on his shoulder, factory Ducati MotoGP star, Valentino Rossi, opined that he might ultimately follow fellow Italian Max Biaggi to the World Superbike Championship once his MotoGP career is over. 3 time champion and Ducati hero, Troy Bayliss, doubts it.
As radical as Ducati’s plans are for the next generation of Superbikes that will be revealed for the first time this November at the EICMA show in Milan, they are playing it safe with its development. Three time World Superbike Champion and Ducati alumnus Troy Bayliss will be doing much of the work.
Retired 3 time World Superbike Champion Troy Bayliss will soon be back on track with Ducati in 2011 with the announcement of an addition to the Ducati Riding Experience (DRE), the new Troy Bayliss Academy. Lucky riders will ride with and receive direct tuition from the legendary triple World Superbike Champion himself on Ducati’s new [...]
With Nitro Noriyuki Haga running out of, well, nitro this season it seems increasingly clear that likeable as he is, he will not be factory Xerox Ducati mounted in 2010. Who to replace him with? Rumors coming out of the Brno World Superbike round were that the team were in talks with 2 time champion [...]
In what to us reeks a little of an orchestrated setup, the rhetoric concerning the possible return of 3 time World Superbike Champion, Troy Bayliss, to Ducati and competition has taken a 180ยบ turn. In a press conference held at Misano as part of World Ducati Week, Bayliss put the kibosh on any chance of [...]
After a very successful test of the Ducati 1198R Factory Superbike at Mugello last week, Troy Bayliss himself has been quoted as itching to get back in the saddle and race for another championship to equal Carl Fogarty and surpass his total number of victories. Now it appears that Bayliss could be racing as early [...]
Troy Bayliss is a Ducati Superstar. The likeable Australian is so polite and friendly to the media it belies his status as a 3 times World Superbike Champion. Ducati created a 1098R Bayliss Limited Edition to celebrate his achievements but now it appears a Swiss Ducati dealer has presented Troy with his own Ducati Multistrada [...]
Troy Bayliss returns to the track today at Monza, on board the factory Xerox Ducati 1198R World Superbike as he adds his expertise and efforts to the struggling team that sees Noriyuki Haga languishing in 6th in the World Superbike Championship standings after last weekends Monza round.
After gracefully bowing out on top at Portimao last year, 3-time and still reigning World Superbike Champion, Troy Bayliss, seemed to have done everything perfectly. The danger with both politicians and racers (all careers end in failure) is knowing when to stop and Bayliss went out on the pinnacle of his form. Champion and race [...]
Less than 12 months after retiring from road racing, Triple World Superbike Champion Troy Bayliss will make his car racing debut in the Australian V8 Supercar championship next month after a successful test outing.
