
Ducati announced its MotoGP team will compete under the new "Open" class instead of the "Factory" class the other major manufacturers are adopting. Ducati declared its decision on the Feb. 28 deadline for teams to declare which of the two different class regulations they will use for the 2014...
Britain's Cal Crutchlow has found no huge leap forward from the works Ducati GP13 and GP14 MotoGP bikes during his first shakedown of the new bike at Sepang but says the 2014-spec Desmodedici is better in a few areas. The former footballer brushed off a slow-speed crash in Malaysia to set the...
Ducati Corse MotoGP boss Gigi Dall'Igna has said the first step for his team into 2015 will be a new engine that should debut at the post-season Valencia test, although it will not be a radical departure. But Dall'Igna has said some small improvements will be brought in before then including...
Ducati will only start to design and build a new MotoGP bike after race chief Gigi Dall'Igna fully understands the existing pros and cons of the current Desmosedici GP14. The Frank Zappa-alike says he has only built one new bike from the ground up in his career (the Aprilia RSV4) but will...
After a year of evolution in MotoGP which brought them few rewards, Ducati looks set for a radical shake up for next season. Respected Italian website GPOne.com is reporting that Ducati is considering racing in MotoGP as an Open entry, instead of under the Factory option. In practice, Ducati...
Three days of MotoGP testing at Sepang ended earlier today with Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) posting the fastest lap, together with Dani Pedrosa (Honda) – yes they were tied for fastest lap down to 1/1000th of a second. The bigger news was the announcement by Ducati that it would not run factory...
Ducati Corse to keep developing their bikes during the championship to improve competitiveness. Ducati Team has announced today that they will compete in the 2014 MotoGP Championship, taking advantage of the Open option. The new MotoGP regulations, introduced this year, give each manufacturer...