“When you’ve been lucky enough to be World Champion, the only thing you want is to repeat that. If we are strong in general, I think we’ll be able to get onto the podium. I’m so proud I now belong to this family. I want to thank all of you, not just for what you’ve shown me yesterday…also everything you’re writing on social media, for example. It gives me so much energy to try and make this team stronger. As a racer and rider I’m sure there will be incredible emotion still to come.” Source link
Tag: Ducati
Bautista : "Fighting in the top five would be a good result"
The first time I rode the Ducati GP16 it felt easy to handle, in inverted commas, compared to other MotoGP bikes I have ridden. I really like the character of the engine, it is very smooth. I also really like the electronics. I think it is a bike with a lot of potential. It is hard to compare with other bikes because my references have changed over the years as I have gathered experience. On the Suzuki I learnt a lot about MotoGP but it had a different character. I think the Honda is the most similar but the Ducati chassis handles better and it is lighter, I like it more. For me, of all of the bikes I have
Calm, collected…‘Maniac’ Iannone?
In the time since Casey Stoner won his home race at Phillip Island back in 2010, Ducati has been through some tough years - to the point where you began to wonder if they would get back to winning ways. And yet, the paddock heads to Brno this weekend with Ducati restored as a winning force in the MotoGP™ World Championship, as the darks days were quickly forgotten by Andrea Iannone’s brilliant win: a Spielberg thriller at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. Source link
Jorge Lorenzo teams up with Ducati
Ducati and Jorge Lorenzo will join forces in 2017 and 2018 as they look to conquer the MotoGP™ World Championship.
Ducati Desmosedici GP15 to be presented in Italy
The presentation will take place at 11am on Monday at the Ducati Auditorium in Borgo Panigale. During the event, which has been organized in collaboration with Telecom Italia, the 2015 sporting activities will be presented and the team’s official riders Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone will pull the wraps off the highly-awaited Desmosedici GP15. The riders will officially debut the machine on track at the Sepang 2 test from 23rd to 26th February. ...
Ducati aiming to close gap after first day
The final winter MotoGP™ Test started this morning (Friday) with the first of three days of work at the Spanish circuit in Jerez de la Frontera. The weather was sunny with springtime temperatures until about two hours from the end, but it was also windy enough to affect all the riders. Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden worked on the Desmosedici GP12’s set-up, overseen by their respective crew chiefs and Technical Director Filippo Preziosi. Nicky Hayden finished sixth and Valentino Rossi was ninth, but both riders hope to improve the set-up over the course of the next two days and to reduce the gap to the front. Nicky Hayden:“After missing the Test at Valencia and having to do damage control in Malaysia, where