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Ductalk: What's Up In The World Of Ducati
Ducati News Roundup Curated by Vicki Smith for Ducati.net |
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November 28, 2012 10:21 AM
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While Honda was wrapping up its final private test of 2012 at Sepang on Wednesday, the Ducati MotoGP team was starting the last track appearance of the year for its race riders at Jerez.
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November 28, 2012 8:59 AM
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t's hard to believe that American Nick Hayden just completed his 10th season in MotoGP. It seems like only yesterday that The Kentucky Kid celebrated as a rookie with wild, blonde-streaked hair on a MotoGP podium with Repsol Honda teammate Valentino Rossi in 2003.
On the surface, Hayden just finished his most trying year in the premier class in 2012. He failed to stand on the podium during a season for the first time in his MotoGP career, as his best finish was fourth at Sepang.
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November 27, 2012 10:36 AM
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#HyperMotardSP #Sittinsidewayze #ducati #Arai #dainese #Oakley twitter.com/NickyHayden/st…
— Nicky Hayden (@NickyHayden) November 27, 2012
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November 27, 2012 9:32 AM
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The FIM has released the official calendar for the 2013 MotoGP™ World Championship with a total of 18 races taking place.
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November 27, 2012 8:29 AM
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Nicky Hayden remains confident Ducati can solve a persistent understeer issue that has dogged the Desmosedici MotoGP project in recent years.
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November 26, 2012 5:09 PM
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Ducati's once-proud MotoGP program has seen its results plummet and reputation tarnished. But even with the loss of Valentino Rossi, all hope is not lost.
Here are five steps to returning the program to glory....
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November 26, 2012 11:34 AM
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Italy's big middleweights go head-to-head: MV Agusta F3 675 vs. Ducati 848 EVO Corse SE. Check out the story and photos HERE
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November 26, 2012 11:25 AM
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Since the global financial crisis struck back in 2008, MotoGP’s primary focus has been on cutting costs. These efforts have met with varying success – sometimes reducing costs over the long-term, after a short-term increase, sometimes having no discernible impact whatsoever – and as a result, the grids in all three classes are filling up again.
Further changes are afoot – chiefly, the promise by Honda and Yamaha to supply cheaper machinery to private teams, either in the form of production racers, such as Honda’s RC213V clone, or Yamaha’s offer to lease engines to chassis builders – but there is a limit to how much can be achieved by cutting costs. What is really needed is for the series to raise its revenues, something which the series has signally failed to do.
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November 25, 2012 7:40 PM
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Valentino Rossi ended his more than two year victory drought with a win on his home soil.
That it didn't come in a MotoGP race was of little consequence to the nine-time world champion. Having endured two years of misery on the Ducati Marlboro team, Rossi was happy to not only be competitive, but competitive enough to win.
Driving a Monster Energy-backed Ford Fiesta WRC, Rossi won the Monza Rally Show for the third time, beating not only Yamaha's recently crowned MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo-he was 10th in his rally debut-but also multi-time Le Mans 24 Hour winner Dindo Capello, who Rossi battled over the course of the three-day event.
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November 25, 2012 7:31 PM
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It might be a motorcycle targeted at learner riders, but the new Ducati Monster 659 LAMS is the bike that I feared most to ride this year.
AT A GLANCE
Engine: 659cc air-cooled sohc 4v fuel-injected 90-degree L-twin; 38kW (51bhp) at 8000rpm and 47Nm of torque at 6400rpm.
Frame: Steel-tube trellis frame with alloy swingarm, 43mm unadjustable inverted front forks with 120mm of travel, preload/rebound-adjustable Sachs rear monoshock with 148mm of travel.
Price: $17,490.
Transmission: six-speed sequential gearbox, chain final drive.
Hot: At last, a premium learner-approved motorcycle that new riders will feel a sense of ownership pride in as well as enjoyment while riding.
Not: Soft front brake set-up mocks the addition of ABS; hard-to-read speedo, single indicator warning light, restricted sidestand access when parking. Knowing that the Bologna bike maker had taken the excellent Monster 696 and tweaked it to comply with the outer limits of the new Learner Approved Motorcycle Scheme, I was concerned that it might have become so neutered that it wouldn't qualify as a "real Ducati" any more. Well, it appears that such fears were groundless.
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November 25, 2012 8:06 AM
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Great to see this line up of Ducati Monsters from last 20 years. #motorcyclelive twitter.com/mcitours2/stat…
— MCi Tours (@mcitours2) November 25, 2012
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November 24, 2012 3:32 PM
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Argentina will have to wait until 2014 to welcome MotoGP to its shores after next year's race was canceled following a diplomatic row.
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November 24, 2012 11:40 AM
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Badovini excited about new Alstare Ducati venture...
After three years with BMW Italia, Ayrton Badovini is gearing up for a radical change next year when he will race for the Alstare Ducati team in the 2013 eni FIM Superbike World Championship. The Italian will soon be able to get his hands on the new Ducati 1199 Panigale that will take part in the Superbike category after a difficult first season in the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, which Badovini himself won in 2010....
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November 23, 2012 9:12 AM
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CW's then-Feature Editor Brenda Buttner recounts her strange trip into the world of Gonzo.
Yes, I admit it.
As Feature Editor of Cycle World, I displayed either the idiocy or insight to give Hunter S. Thompson a high-end, high-speed, high-priced Ducati and did so with no guarantee that the Guru of Gonzo would return either the motorcycle or an article.
As for that “Memo to Self” that perhaps I should have considered prior to this gamble? You know, the one a sane editor would at least contemplate:
MEMO TO ME
Do this IF:
You want to get a bill for $10,000, the approximate price of replacing a 900 SuperSport should it end up bearing the brand of HST.
You hope to hand over your keys to Cycle World’s garage, the toy box my 31-year-old juvenile side reveled in, picking out a different fancy, fun two-wheeler to ride home each day.
Conclusion: Forget this crazy idea.
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November 22, 2012 10:35 PM
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Besides releasing some new motorcycles for 2013, such as the Multistrada S Granturismo, the Hypersport and the 1199 R, Ducati has also released a new collection of apparel.
As in previous years, Ducati offers its apparel collection based on each model. For 2013, Ducati has released the following apparel collections - Multistrada, Superbike, Diavel, Monster, Streetfighter, Hypermotard and Urban.
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November 22, 2012 8:01 AM
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Hagerty Classic Cars sits down with Paul Smart who tells the story of the first time he rode a Ducati motorcycle at the Imola 200 mile race.
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November 21, 2012 5:35 PM
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By Henny Ray Abrams
The expected re-shuffling of Ducati's race team was announced just over a week after the end of the most expensive and disappointing period in the Italian firm's history, with an unexpected candidate being installed to head the effort heading into Audi's first full year in charge.
Former BMW Motorrad Motorsports Director Bernhard Gobmeier, a persistent critic of the costs of racing in MotoGP, was named the new general manager of Ducati Corse. Under Gobmeier, BMW's Superbike effort was considerably strengthened. Gobmeier hired former MotoGP rider Marco Melandri and his crew and gave them the resources needed to win. And Melandri did until he didn't. The Italian was leading the championship coming out of Russia, then failed to score points in five of the six final races, falling to third.
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November 21, 2012 2:25 PM
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Valentino Rossi admits he learnt nothing during his barren two-year spell with Ducati.
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November 21, 2012 9:36 AM
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Ousted Ducati MotoGP boss Filippo Preziosi says he is optimistic that the Bologna factory is destined for a successful future.
The Italian will no longer serve as Ducati Corse’s General and Technical Manager from January, 2013 after Ducati owners Audi implemented a major management restructure today (Tuesday).
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November 21, 2012 9:07 AM
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Based on a 1977 Ducati Road 350, the Chupito custom from El Solitario, makes an ideal city runabout.
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November 21, 2012 8:57 AM
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Former World Superbike race winner Ben Bostrom won't be returning to the Jordan Suzuki DMG/AMA team in 2013. Bostrom says he isn't finished racing motorcycles--not at all. He's still immensely popular in Europe, could he return to World Superbike in 2013?
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November 20, 2012 2:41 PM
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Made a last minute trip down to Austin Texas this morning with big bro and my dad to check out the new track and see the formula guys lay down some rubber before Moto GP comes to town in the spring! :) Was a good time the track and facility all look first class and was a good race. Looking forward to going back in April and do more then watch! NH
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