With a qualification of 12th place, the iconic Italian MotoGP at Mugello was never destined to be the the race the Ducati team and fans alike pined for. Instead, Valentino Rossi did what he has been doing all year – making the best of a bad thing and finishing higher than his practice pace would [...]
A switch to a new engine with a revised crankshaft weight led to an immediate improvement for Valentino Rossi as he took his Ducati Desmosedici GP11 to 5th place at the Grand Prix de Catalunya in Spain. More impressive than the placing was the fact that the Italian finished the race just 7 seconds behind [...]
With a winning margin of 14 seconds you wouldn’t think the French MotoGP at Le Mans would have been an exciting race to watch. You’d be wrong. The 4th round of the 2011 MotoGP World Championship was packed with the expected, the unexpected, controversy, injury and plenty of content to keep the interwebs full of [...]
A change of tire compound along with a brave overtake on the penultimate lap turned a 3rd place in race 1 to a 4th victory for Althea Ducati’s Carlos Checa in the 3rd round of the World Superbike Championship yesterday at Assen, Netherlands. Defending champ Max Biaggi twice took second while Castrol Honda’s Jonathan Rea [...]
The bane of Casey Stoner’s career to date has been the wayward front end of the Ducati Desmosedici. At Jerez, it struck again even though he is now a factory Honda rider. Valentino Rossi blew an overtaking attempt to take Stoner out in what was a race that seemed scripted in Hollywood for the Spanish [...]
World Superbike new boy, Marco Melandri proved he is a fast study after taking his maiden victory in the opening race of Round 2 of the World Superbike Championship at the revised Donington Park circuit. He followed that performance up with a second in race 2 behind points leader Althea Ducati’s Carlos Checa.
Valentino Rossi battled a still recalcitrant Ducati and his slowly recovering shoulder to take 7th place in his Ducati MotoGP debut at Losail, Qatar on Sunday. In what was a disappointing day for Ducati fans both Pramac Ducatis went out early whilst Nicky Hayden finished 9th.
Michael Rutter rode the RidersMotorcycles.com Ducati to a brilliant second place in the second race of the day at Oulton Park today and now sits sixth in the championship after three rounds. Rutter had qualified third, but retired from the first race with what he thought was an engine problem. But in the second race [...]
RidersMotorcycles.com Ducati enjoyed a positive start to their season with Michael Rutter finishing sixth in the second race of Easter Monday’s opening round of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch on his Ducati 1198R. Rutter had already finished seventh in the opening race and his team-mate Martin Jessopp was also among the [...]
Foremost Insurance Pegram Ducati’s Larry Pegram dominated Saturday’s Auto Club Speedway American Superbike race- a thriller that came down to the last lap. Mounted on a Ducati 1198R, Pegram battled the field from start to finish. The owner of the Foremost Insurance-backed team waited until the last two laps in order to make his move [...]
