After setting a blistering pace in qualifying that smashed the track record, Althea Ducati’s Carlos Checa, looked set for double victories at the US round of the World Superbike Championship at Miller Motorsports Park at Salt Lake City, Utah. However his hopes were dashed as his bike failed him twice whilst comfortably in the lead. [...]
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.
Leon Haslam (Suzuki Alstare) took provisional pole with a 1’43.476 lap in the opening Qualifying practice session for Round 2 of the World Superbike Championship at Portimao, Portugal. Ducati Xerox rider Michel Fabrizio was second in the rankings ahead of Phillip Island race winner Carlos Checa (Ducati Althea) in third. James Toseland had been fastest [...]
Team Althea Ducati rider, Carlos Checa, showed that a privateer team can still win in the World Superbike Championship as he took victory in the 2nd race following the factory domination in the first race of the opening round of the series at Phillip Island, Australia.
Team Xerox Ducati kicked off their 2010 World Superbike Championship title chase at the 2nd fastest circuit of the series, Phillip Island in Australia. Both Michel Fabrizio and Noriyuki Haga stood on the podium but it was first time pole sitter Leon Haslam who took his maiden victory on the Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000.
Ducati Dominance was the order of the day for the final pre-season testing of the 2010 World Superbike series at Phillip Island, Australia. Factory rider Michel Fabrizio was fastest overall, ahead of 3 other Ducati riders. Noriyuki Haga was 6th fastest making it 5 Ducatis in the top 6.
New Althea Ducati hire, Carlos Checa posted the fastest time during the first day of official testing for the 2010 World Superbike Championship season at Phillip Island, Australia, site of next week’s opening round. Checa is taking well to the V-twin and in fact Ducati took 3 of the top 4 fastest times.
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 some great photos of the Xerox Ducati World Superbike squad in action.
Never one to miss a PR trick, Ducati made sure that their World Superbike stars, Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio were on hand last week to check out the new 2010 Ducati model range at the EICMA show in Milan. Haga seemed impressed with the new 1198R Corse SE whilst Fabrizio was enamored with another [...]
Xerox Ducati Team Manager, Davide Tardozzi, has defended a lack of team orders in the World Superbike squad that saw Michel Fabrizio take valuable points away from his teammate Noriyuki Haga in the title chase.
