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Julien Dupont rides Rio de Janeiro

25 March, 2020
Our favourite freestyle and urban Trial X rider Julien Dupont has decided to add another city to his already long list of places he’s conquered, Rio de Janeiro.The French rider doesn’t perform his stunts in the usual tourist area, but…

Valentino Rossi to drive Ferrari in F1 competition?

25 March, 2020
It looks as though Valentino Rossi’s test drive of a Ferrari with the excuse that it was a present to himself for winning the MotoGP 2008 championship could be an exercise in smoke and mirrors, according to Rossi’s friend and…

Jorge Lorenzo's Moon Landing Anniversary Helmet

25 March, 2020
After his Indy helmet, Jorge Lorenzo will be wearing another one-off helmet for this weekend’s MotoGP at Estoril. This time the Spanish rider has turned his Nolan X-Lite X-802 into an astronaut’s helmet to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the…

Ducati's CEO Confirms Rossi and Hayden line-up in 2011 UPDATED

25 March, 2020
UPDATE: Ducati Press ReleaseRegarding the recent allegations attributed to Gabriele Del Torchio - Ducati CEO and President, Ducati states that no agreement has been reached with the riders Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden for the future Moto GP season, although…

Ducati Art – Troy Bayliss Honour&Glory Collection

25 March, 2020
While we are all waiting to see if Troy Bayliss will be making a wildcard appearance at the World Superbike round at Misano, Ducati Art has introduced an art collection dedicated to Troy Bayliss by Polish expressionist artist Pat Kuleta.The…

Ben Spies becomes brand ambassador for Jorg Gray Watches

25 March, 2020
MotoGP’s Casey Stoner is Same Deutz-Fahr Group poster boy for tractors, Valentino Rossi is Bridgestone’s consultant/ambassador, Nicky Hayden is one of Tissot watches ambassador’s and now Ben Spies has signed an agreement with Jorg Gray, an American watch brand (that…

Max Biaggi denies comeback rumors

25 March, 2020
Following the rumors during last week’s Aragon Superbike round that Max Biaggi was thinking of making a comeback, the Roman Emperor in an interview with the usual Gazzetta dello Sport, categorically denied he was thinking of a return to racing,…

Max Biaggi keeps teasing on comeback

25 March, 2020
Max Biaggi shot down any possibilities of returning to World Superbikes in an interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport with ‘it’s impossible’, but the Roman Emperor via Twitter keeps teasing his millions of orphaned fans with ambiguous tweets that leaves…

Nicky Hayden's Wrist X-Ray

25 March, 2020
During yesterday’s qualifying session at Brno saw Nicky Hayden lose the front of his factory GP10 and slid into the gravel trap hurting his left wrist.After x-rays in the Clinica Mobile, Hayden revealed that the crash had taken off a…

Fiat 500 Abarth Marco Simoncelli tribute

25 March, 2020
To remember the late Marco Simoncelli, a member of Italy’s Fiat 500 Club (21,000 members), Gabriele Ravagnani from Modena decided to turn his historical Fiat 500 Abarth into a tribute to the Italian rider with this amazing paint job depicting…

WSBK: Gadea to replace Lascorz in Monza on the ZX-10R

25 March, 2020
Accordingly to a Tweet unleahed on the internet by Italian journalist Fabio Di Palma, Guim Roda, team manager of the Kawasaki Racing team, has announced that the Ninja ZX-10R left available by injured Joan Lascorz will be ridden this weekend…

Valentino Rossi Borgo Panigale song tribute (w/video)

25 March, 2020
Mauro Tononi works for Italy’s Radio Deejay, he’s a singer and a performer and probably his greatest talent is the fact that he imitates Valentino Rossi’s voice to the perfection. He released his first album in 2010 called ‘46 Volte…

Dani Pedrosa arrested for cheating??

25 March, 2020
You’ve got to be kidding me, this has to be some sort of late April’s fool joke by the Spanish press, even if April Fool’s Day for the Spanish is celebrated on December 28th and called el Día de los…

Valentino Rossi to test Ferrari F1 Car this Month

25 March, 2020
Wrooom isn’t only a Ducati event, but it’s also Ferrari happening and Stefano Domenicali, the teams principal during his press conference announced that Valentino Rossi will be once again taking the wheel of one their Formula 1 cars for two…

Gabor Talmacsi still undecided on Pedercini offer

24 March, 2020
Gabor Talmacsi lost his Moto2 ride after the Jack& Jones by Antonio Banderas team dropped out of the 2011 championship after losing their title sponsor, was invited to Sepang to test for Pedercini’s Kawasaki team to see if he could…

Jorge Lorenzo: I'm going to quit racing in 4 or 5 years

24 March, 2020
Max Biaggi quit racing at 41, Troy Bayliss at 40, the same for Loris Capirossi, Valentino Rossi still wants to race and he’s going on 33, others wanted to continue, but injuries stopped them, but the younger generation of riders…

Brad Pitt spotted on Kimura cafè racer

24 March, 2020
Brad Pitt was spotted in L.A. on Monday riding this splendid café racer that he ordered last year from custom builder Shinya Kimura.Dubbed ‘Flash’ and built around a 1974 Ducati 750 SS engine, the Kimura bike according to celebritygossip.net had…

Ducat and Rossi magic: Mugello GP presales up 45%

24 March, 2020
Talk about black, but in this case red and yellow magic. Put Valentino Rossi and Ducati together and what do get, presales event tickets going through the roof, at least for the Gran Premio d’Italia at the Mugello that takes…

Santa Carlos Checa (w/video)

24 March, 2020
Last year Carlos Checa made up an original sonnet to share with fans for the Christmas season, but this year the 2011 World Superbike champion has become a modern day Santa Claus for Ducati.No reindeers or sled for Santa Checa,…

Max Biaggi's girlfriend Eleonora Pedron defends her man

24 March, 2020
The Biaggi vs Melandri squabble has become a national affair in Italy, just like when the Italian parliment (hey, we’ve got a PM who still in office after making out with underage girls) discussed why Biaggi could no longer race…

Ferrari: 'The door is always open for Rossi'

24 March, 2020
Let’s face it it’s off season and Italian sports journalists and fans are bored, so when they get Ferrari’s Stefano Domenicali in a Q&A interview at the Bologna Motor Show, one of the questions naturally has to be that old…