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A Ducati racing motorcycle from 1968. Ducati's history with motorsport began with speed records on Cucciolo motorized bicycle factory racers in 1951, followed in 1954 with bringing in Fabio Taglioni to found a road-racing program with the 100 Gran Sport. [40]
Ducati Corse is the racing team division of Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. that deals with the firm's involvement in motorcycle racing. It is based in Borgo Panigale, Bologna, Italy and the General Manager is Luigi Dall'Igna. More than one hundred people work in Ducati Corse (almost 10 percent of the Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. workforce). [5]
That death dealt a severe blow to the Ducati racing program and it was not until 1958 that their team was able to mount a serious challenge to Italy’s MV Agusta, and their top rider, former 125 cc world champion, Carlo Ubbiali. In 1958 the Ducati Desmo dominated the racing season and the racing team was soon headed for the World Championship.
Ducati 916 M: 13: 6: 0 Virginio Ferrari Ducati Corse 1996 Troy Corser: Ducati 916 M: 7: 5: 1 Promotor Racing Team: 1997 John Kocinski: Honda RC45: M: 9: 4: 4 Castrol Honda: 1998 Carl Fogarty Ducati 916 M: 3: 6: 5 Ducati Performance: 1999 Carl Fogarty Ducati 996: M: 11: 6: 2 Ducati Performance 2000 Colin Edwards: Honda VTR1000 SP/RC51: M: 8: 2: ...
The Ducati Desmosedici is a four-stroke V4 engine racing motorcycle made by Ducati for MotoGP racing. The series nomenclature is GP with the two-digit year appended, such as Desmosedici GP10 for 2010. In 2006 Ducati made a short production run of 1,500 street-legal variants, the Desmosedici RR.
By 1954, Ducati Meccanica SpA had increased production to 120 bikes a day. In the 1960s, Ducati earned its place in motorcycling history by producing the fastest 250cc road bike then available, the Mach 1. [4] [5] [6] In 1985, Cagiva bought Ducati and planned to rebadge Ducati motorcycles with the "Cagiva" name. By the time the purchase was ...
The Ducati 800SS, introduced in 2003, is the smaller capacity, higher revving version of that year's air-cooled Ducati Supersport (SS) model range. [5] The 800SS is a popular base for production racing in the United States, where it competes against motorcycles such as the Suzuki SV650.
The Grand Prix Road-Racing World Championship was established in 1949 by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), and is the oldest motorsport World Championship. [2] There were four classes when the championship started in 1949; 500cc, 350cc, 250cc and 125cc. The 50cc class was introduced in the 1962 ...