Ducati Euro Cycles of Tampa Bay
Team SBK Ducati Alstare and riders Carlos Checa and Ayrton Badovini are all set to continue their quest in this weekend’s second round of the 2013 World Superbike Championship, taking place at MotorLand Aragón in Spain. Round 1 of the 2013 championship concluded over a month ago at the Phillip Island circuit in Australia [...]
02/04/2013 Factory Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso believes he should be able to qualify well for this weekend’s MotoGP opener at Qatar but remain concerned over his race pace for the desert contest. The Italian says setup for a fast lap on new tyres is good but the gap over a full distance is still too large [...]
“I’m really happy about how much we improved with the same bike” – Andrea Dovizioso. Having left the first Sepang MotoGP test feeling ‘every area of the bike’ needed improving, new factory Ducati recruit Andrea Dovizioso made a significant step – and confirmed the big unsolved issue – during the second visit. Over two seconds [...]
“Minor tune up last night to clean up some old scar tissue” – Nicky Hayden. Ducati MotoGP star Nicky Hayden has undergone minor surgery on his right wrist. With Ducati not attending next week’s private test at the new Austin circuit, the American has taken advantage of the break before the final official test at [...]
‘I am not yet at full condition but considering the situation of three weeks ago I am satisfied with what has been done in this second phase of the winter tests’ – Ben Spies Pramac Ducati’s Ben Spies was hampered by the effects of the shoulder injury he sustained at Sepang in October during the [...]
Ducati rider Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso made a small step forward during day 2 at Sepang giving them a small ray of sunshine that something is starting work, albeit slowly, as both riders were able to break the 2.02 barrier that had characterized their previous three-day test at the Malaysian circuit. “The good weather [...]
“At the moment it’s ‘no’ but the door is not completely closed” – Nicky Hayden. Nicky Hayden hopes that Ducati will be able to join Yamaha and Honda at next month’s private Austin MotoGP test – but the answer is currently ‘no’. On the last day of the Sepang test, Yamaha confirmed that they would [...]
MotoGP rookie Andrea Iannone believes his hopes of succeeding in the new look Pramac Ducati squad will be given a massive boost by Ducati’s commitment to offer him full factory support in 2013. In a bid to reduce the performance gap to rivals Honda and Yamaha. Ducati has changed its strategy for the forthcoming world [...]
Very much a cloak and dagger affair, it is always fairly entertaining to read the information that the manufacturers release regarding their MotoGP machines. Despite the fact that these are some of the most drool-over motorcycles on the planet, by rule of thumb the factories publish only the most general technical specifications possible. If a [...]
Just a few days after the Ducati Desmosedici GP13’s official unveiling at Madonna di Campiglio, the Ducati Development Team was already busy at Jerez for the first of a number of tests planned for the coming weeks in preparation for the new season. The three-day test, which started on Saturday at the Andalusian circuit, concluded [...]
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