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Ducati Concludes Three-Day Session at Mugello
01 August 2008
The third and final day of testing, before the well deserved summer break, for Vittoriano Guareschi and Niccolo Canepa concluded today at Mugello. Vittoriano continued working on the scheduled development of the GP9. Niccola completed two long runs despites of the hot conditions and recorded a best time of 1.51.2.
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Gibernau Ends the Ducati Testing Session at Mugello
31 July 2008
Sete Gibernau finished a two-days testing session he was taking part in at Mugello together with the Official Testers Vittoriano Guareschi and Niccola Canepa that will continue tomorrow for the final day. The Spanish rider, back in action for the third time after retiring almost two years ago, kept up an excellent pace, lapping consistently in around 1m50.5 with race tyre. Despite the difficult climatic conditions, with scorching air and track temperatures, Gibernau clocked an impressive fastest lap time in 1m48.9 with qualifying tyres. A crash around the end of the day, luckily without consequences, has nevertheless suggested to end the test early given the good job already made during two days.
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Positive End to Three-Day Test in Mugello with Gibernau
03 July 2008
The three-day test session at the Tuscan track of Mugello has concluded in a positive fashion for Sete Gibernau. The Spanish rider has clocked up a great deal of kilometres on track (around 800kms in total) first with the GP9, then with the GP8, finishing with a final exit on the GP9 for a back to back comparison. In this, only his second test session after nearly two years away from the tracks, Gibernau has proved that he still has the speed and is also more than competent in providing the Ducati Corse engineers with useful feedback for the development of the Desmosedici.
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Three-Day Tests Concludes For Ducati MotoGP
20 June 2008
The third and final day of testing for Vittoriano Guareschi and Sete Gibernau concluded today at Mugello, with the Spaniard taking advantage of good weather conditions to clock up 50 laps and record a best time of 1'51.7. After two days of changeable weather today the sun finally stayed out and allowed the pair to get through the entire programme of work they had scheduled for the GP9.
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Ducati Xerox Conclude Successful Test at Mugello
20 June 2008
Troy Bayliss and Michel Fabrizio (Ducati Xerox) have this evening completed three days of testing at the Mugello circuit, on board both the Ducati 1098 F08 and the new F09 development bike. Throughout Wednesday and Thursday Bayliss clocked up 640 kilometres, completing 124 laps, on his F08 machine, with the team testing different settings and identifying two new set-ups that will be tried at the next World Superbike round in Misano next week. Fabrizio meanwhile rode the F09 development bike, gaining familiarity with the new components and testing new things ahead of the coming season.
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First Outing for Gibernau with Vittoriano in Mugello Ducati Test
18 June 2008
A three-day session for the Ducati Test Team began today at Mugello, where factory test rider Vittoriano Guareschi was joined for the first time by Sete Gibernau. Gibernau clocked up twenty laps with the Desmosedici GP9, recording a best time of 1'53.7 before the session was interrupted by rain. Despite a long absence from the sport and the opportunity to complete only a handful of laps today, the Spaniard's first contact with the GP9 was a positive one.
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Gibernau Will Join Guareschi in 3-Day Test at Mugello
12 June 2008
Sete Gibernau will test at Mugello from 17th-19th June. The Spanish rider expressed his desire to get back on track during a brief visit to the Catalunya paddock last weekend, and offered the Ducati MotoGP Test Team a welcome opportunity to intensify its development program. As a result, Gibernau, who knows the D16 very well, and was one of the first to test the GP7 in Motegi in September 2006, will join official test rider Vittoriano Guareschi during next week test session. This initiative will allow the team to gather important data during a period when official GP riders will not have the possibility to test due to the busy racing calendar.
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Good Result for KTM Despite Problems
04 June 2008
Red Bull KTM star Mika Kallio rode to an incredible fourth place in Sunday's Italian Grand Prix overcoming a damaged clutch that made it very difficult to shift through the gears of his KTM FRR 250 machine.
The 24-year-old Finn dropped back to the middle of the pack when the problem emerged going into the first turn of the famous Italian racing circuit of Mugello. It is a testament to his incredible skill and determination that he was able to recover and finish with a top position. The World Champion leader took 13 valuable points for his efforts and increased his lead in the point standings. He is now 18 points clear of second placed Mattia Pasini. Kallio's previous best performance on the Mugello circuit was in 2006 when he was sixth in the 125cc race.
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Michelin Man Pedrosa Third at Mugello
03 June 2008
World Championship contender Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda RC212V-Michelin) was Michelin’s top performer at Mugello today, the Spanish star disputing the lead with rivals Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha Team YZR-M1) and Casey Stoner (Ducati Marlboro Team Desmosedici) before taking a strong third place, just 2.6 seconds behind Stoner. Colin Edwards (Yamaha Tech 3 YZR-M1-Michelin) and rookie James Toseland (Yamaha Tech 3 YZR-M1-Michelin) made it three Michelin men in the top six, the team-mates enjoying a thrilling battle as they fought their way through from eighth and ninth in the early stages. Today’s race was run in warm sunshine following two days of rain-hit practice which gave riders and their technicians very little dry track time to fully prepare for the 23 laps.
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Guintoli Maintains His Promises
03 June 2008
Sylvain Guintoli, Alice Team rider, has declared yesterday: “Tomorrow I want and I can obtain the best result of the season so far”, and so he has done. Surely the French rider isn’t fully satisfied by the eleventh position obtained today, but he consider it a good starting point for the intense work of the next two months, with five races in seven weeks. His race has started with difficulties as he was touched by another rider and lost four positions in the second turn of the race, but after a few laps Sylvain found again the good rhythm registered in the warm up finishing just one position from the top ten. Another story for his team-mate, Toni Elias, who after the improvements seen in China doesn’t find back the right confidence to push at the maximum his Ducati Desmosedici GP8 SAT. Elias, who has finished in twelfth position, will try to improve in his home race, in Barcelona, in just 7 days. Thanks to the nine points conquered today, the Alice Team overtake the Kawasaki Racing Team in the MotoGP Team classification, positioning in eight place.
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Tech 3 Yamaha Celebrate Double Top Six Finish in Mugello
03 June 2008
Colin Edwards and James Toseland catapulted the Tech 3 Yamaha team into third place in the coveted Team World Championship standings today after both produced fantastic top six results in front of 96,252 fans at the Italian GP. Edwards produced by far his best Mugello result with fifth place, beating his previous best effort of ninth after he completed a terrific fightback from ninth place in the early stages. No less impressive was the performance of rookie James Toseland, who finished just one place further back in sixth on his first visit to the challenging Mugello circuit. Displaying his trademark aggressive riding style, Toseland’s surge through the field was one of the highlights of the 23-lap encounter as he passed the likes of Shinya Nakano, Nicky Hayden, Andrea Dovizioso, Loris Capirossi and Edwards.
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Bridgestone Enjoys Mugello 1-2 with Rossi & Stoner
03 June 2008
Bridgestone-shod riders took a magnificent one-two in Mugello this afternoon with Fiat Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi winning by a 2.2 second margin from Ducati’s Casey Stoner. Honda’s Dani Pedrosa took the final podium place in third. The Italian GP victory continues Rossi’s enviable record at Mugello where he remains unbeaten in the MotoGP class, and marks his third consecutive win on Bridgestone tyres after recent success in China and France. It is also the first time that a rider on Bridgestone tyres has taken victory in Mugello. Stoner has enjoyed a competitive weekend in Ducati’s home grand prix and set the fastest lap of the race, a 1m50.003s, beating Max Biaggi’s record that dates back to 2005.
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Lorenzo Suffers Disapointment in Mugello
03 June 2008
Fiat Yamaha Team rider Jorge Lorenzo had a disappointing 100th Grand Prix today, crashing out of the Italian round of the championship on lap seven when running strongly in sixth place. His team-mate Valentino Rossi on the other hand took an outstanding victory, his seventh consecutive win at his home track. Lorenzo, who is still not quite at 100% after suffering two fractured ankles in China one month ago, had struggled all weekend to find a good set-up, hampered by the lack of dry track time after losing Friday and Saturday morning to rain.
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Seventh Heaven for Rossi in Runaway Mugello Victory
03 June 2008
Valentino Rossi brought the house down once again in Mugello today with an emotional seventh straight victory at his home track in front of 96,000 adoring fans. It was the Fiat Yamaha Team Rider’s ninth win in total and fifth for Yamaha at this track and also his third win in a row this season, the first time he has won three consecutive races since 2005. His 91st victory is also a first for Bridgestone at this track. Starting from pole for the first time in almost a year, Rossi set nerves on edge when he slipped a few places at the start, exiting turn one in fourth. He soon passed his compatriot Loris Capirossi however and crossed the line for the first time hot on the heels of Stoner and Pedrosa.
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Disappointment at Mugello for Kawasaki Pair
03 June 2008
Anthony West was the sole Kawasaki finisher in today's Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, bringing his Ninja ZX-RR home in a points scoring position after a technical problem caused his Kawasaki teammate, John Hopkins, to crash out of the race after just seven laps. Both Kawasaki riders lined up on the grid today knowing they were facing a tough task, after rain affected practice sessions on Friday and Saturday left them with limited dry track time in which to perfect the race set-up of their Ninja ZX-RR machines.
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Repsol Honda's Pedrosa Takes Hard-Fought Third
02 June 2008
Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa rode a gutsy race in today’s Italian Grand Prix, battling back and forth with reigning World Champion Casey Stoner and eventually finishing third aboard his RC212V. Nicky Hayden had high hopes of a strong race following a promising performance in morning warm-up but the American ran into difficulties and came home an unlucky 13th. HRC test rider Tadayuki Okada did a sterling day’s work with Honda’s new pneumatic-valve-spring RC212V engine, scoring two World Championship points. Contesting his first GP in almost eight years, the 41-year-old gathered a full race of data that will help Pedrosa and Hayden decide which type of engine they will use at next weekend’s Catalan GP.
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Toseland & Smith Fly The Flag in Passionate Italy
02 June 2008
In a day dominated by Italian riders and passionate fans James Toseland and Bradley Smith flew the British flag with great pride at the Alice Grand Prix of Italy in Mugello this afternoon. Toseland on his first racing visit to the magnificent 3.259 miles Mugello circuit battled with the top MotoGP riders to eventually finish a superb sixth equally his results in Qatar and Spain which are his best of the season. The result came after the Tech 3 Yamaha rider had just managed one qualifying and warm-up session on a dry track.
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Stoner Storms Back to The Podium at Mugello
02 June 2008
Casey Stoner played a starring role in the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, where he claimed an outstanding second place following a hard-fought battle with Dani Pedrosa. Unfortunately his team-mate Marco Melandri was forced to retire on the fifth lap after running straight into the gravel when avoiding a stricken Randy De Puniet, who had crashed in front of him following contact with Chris Vermeulen. Stoner stormed to his first Mugello podium in MotoGP, his third of the season, and a result that cuts back the gap in the championship to Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa. The reigning World Champion currently lies fourth overall, 46 points adrift of Valentino Rossi, 34 shy of Pedrosa and 18 back from Lorenzo.
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A Tenacious Home Race From Dovizioso at Mugello
02 June 2008
The Italian Grand Prix at Mugello saw Andrea Dovizioso fighting at the head of the field once more. A great start from 13th place on the grid and in just a few corners he took fifth position and tried not to lose the contact with Rossi, Stoner, Pedrosa and Capirossi. During the race both Dovizioso and Alex de Angelis came through the pack and the JiR Team Scot rider was then fighting with Loris Capirossi for seventh position. The fighting was spectacular and could have ended in Andrea being higher up the order, if it was not for a lack of grip towards the end of the race. Instead, Andrea went for the finish and some safe points, climbing one position to seventh in the World Championship rankings.
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Proud Race for Yuki Takahashi at Italian GP
02 June 2008
Starting from 11th position in the sun at Mugello, Yuki Takahashi started fast today in the 250cc GP and within a few corners was up to fifth position. He stayed in this group behind the lead riders of Bautista, Simoncelli and Barbera but a number of crashes at the head of the field handed more positions to the following riders. The JiR Team Scot rider in warm-up showed his speed and intent for the race by setting the eighth fastest time and soon in the race he was in contact with Luthi and Debon fighting for the third and final podium position. Always Yuki was pushing at the maximum in the corners, as he had to try and snatch back the metres he was losing on the kilometre long straight. Sadly, just four laps from the end of the race, Yuki fell as he hit the brakes for one of the corners. Despite the lack of a result, Yuki proved himself once more, riding the whole race on the limit, showing the skill and deter mination of the Japanese rider.
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