Ducati has announced that Nicky Hayden has re-signed with the Italian manufacturer for two more seasons with the Marlboro Ducati MotoGP team. This is a just reward for his tremendous efforts to overcome a disastrous first season with a much improved effort in 2010.
August 29th, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
Marlboro Ducati’s Nicky Hayden is looking forward to this weekend’s Indianapolis MotoGP round. The second home meeting of the season for the American was the source of much joy last year, when he took 3rd position. The record books show that Nicky usually performs strongly in the USA. Can he do it again?
August 27th, 2010 | Posted in MotoGP, Opinion | No Comments
Former 500cc Grand Prix Champion, Wayne Gardner, hasn’t pulled any punches in espousing his view of the current MotoGP racers in a post on his personal blog entitled ‘Half time report’. He saves perhaps his harshest words for fan favorite, 2006 World Champ and Marlboro Ducati rider Nicky Hayden.
August 26th, 2010 | Posted in MotoGP | 1 Comment
Nicky Hayden will be the Grand Marshall of the Lucas Oil Indy Mile AMA Pro K&N Grand National Championship event on Saturday, August 28, 2010. Hayden, in Indianapolis to ride his Ducati Desmosedici GP10 at the Red Bull Indianapolis GP, will travel across town to the legendary Indy Mile at the Indiana State Fairgrounds to [...]
August 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Ducati Company, News, Racing | No Comments
Getting a phone call from Nicky Hayden would be nice enough, but it was so much better than that for Jeffrey Jones when the Marlboro Ducati MotoGP rider left him a message to say he had won the ultimate road going Ducati, the Desmosedici RR. Jones won after purchasing a $40 ticket in the raffle [...]
July 29th, 2010 | Posted in News | 1 Comment
Marlboro Ducati rider Nicky Hayden managed to get himself in a minor MotoGP scandal when Gazzetta dello Sport claimed he said “it was a bit shameful” for Casey Stoner to leave Ducati after it had done so much for his career.
July 23rd, 2010 | Posted in MotoGP, News | Comments Off
Marlboro Ducati’s Nicky Hayden became the first team-mate to defeat Australian sensation and 2007 MotoGP World Champion, Casey Stoner, since his championship victory season. Casey had seemed to be the only rider able to master the mercurial Ducati Desmosedici but changes for the 2010 season has seen the machine easier to ride for other Ducati [...]
May 6th, 2010 | Posted in MotoGP | Comments Off
Marlboro Ducatis Casey Stoner put a halt to Valentino Rossi’s dominance in pre-season testing today as he posted the fastest time just 1/10th outside his 2009 pole time at the Losail, Qatar circuit which will host the opening round of the 2010 MotoGP Championship.
March 19th, 2010 | Posted in MotoGP, News | Comments Off
Marlboro Ducati’s Nicky Hayden shrugged off recent arm surgery to set the 3rd fastest time at the second Sepang 2010 MotoGP pre-season test that completed today. Hayden who failed to perform to the standard he expected of himself in 2009 seems to be clicking with the revised ‘big bang’ style Ducati Desmosedici GP10.
February 26th, 2010 | Posted in MotoGP | 5 Comments
The 2010 MotoGP season kicked off as 2009 ended with the 4 aliens on top but with rookie sensation, Ben Spies, already showing he is prepared to start his MotoGP career where he left off on Superbikes – at the front.
February 5th, 2010 | Posted in MotoGP, News | Comments Off