If you’ve ever dreamed of actually being on a real MotoGP racer, your dream could come true at the Silverstone round of the World Championship. Riders for Health, MotoGP’s official charity will offer places on the 2-seat Ducati Desmosedici ridden by commentator and former 500GP racer, Randy Mamola.
The Ducati Desmosedicic RR was nice but the 990cc V4 is obsolete and never won a MotoGP championship. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a replica of the bike Casey Stoner took to victory in 2007? You know, the 800cc über screamer. When MotoGP switches back to the big 1,000cc machines in 2012, we may [...]
The Ducati Desmosedici RR is the flagship of the Ducati range with the potent desmo V4 effectively being a road going version of the MotoGP racer that won the last ever race of the 990cc era. The first examples of a limited production run of 1,500 were sold in 2008 but if you weren’t flush [...]
Hector Barbera’s Ducati Desmosedici GP10 racer won’t be hard to spot this season. The Aspar team run by Jorge Martinez has the Spanish Yellow Pages (‘Paginas Amarillas Aspar Team’) as its major sponsor, hence the bright yellow color. Barbera is one of 5 Ducati riders in this year’s MotoGP championship which kicks off at Losail, [...]
Artists of a motorcycling bent love to draw Ducati because, let’s face it, the evocative manufacturer has a certain je ne sais quoi! Nicolas Petit, is a French motorcycle mechanic by day and author of this Ducati Desmosedici RR Trike concept by night.
As Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps moves closer to release this April, more details of Ducati involvement in the sequel to the famous Wall Street have been revealed in the theatrical trailer. A Ducati Streetfighter S and Ducati Desmosedici both feature in the movie along with the US made MotoCzysz.
Ducati could be considering a $100,000, carbon framed 800cc follow-up to the wildly successful 2008 Desmosedici RR, which was based on the 2006 GP6 MotoGP race bike, the last 990cc model before the switch the current 800cc regulations. With the spec scheduled to return to 1,000cc in 2012, the changing of the guard could herald [...]
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 the newest, most expensive and most unobtainable Ducati, the Desmosedici GP10 MotoGP racer.
Movie star, motorcycle fan and card carrying Scientology nut, Tom Cruise, was caught recently taking his Ducati Desmosedici RR out for a spin. Cruise was reputably the first American to receive the über Ducati in 2008.
Ducati has unveiled its GP10 MotoGP racer at the Madonna di Campiglio ski resort in Italy. The factory believes that they have a great chance of sticking it to the all conquering factory Yamahas this year with the new big bang engine and an improving Nicky Hayden and a healthy Casey Stoner at the controls.
