Remember the Ducati 848 Nicky Hayden Special Edition that Ducati unveiled at the Laguna GP? Well Ducati has given Nicky Hayden his own replica bike. You’ve got to love Nicky’s line when he say’s he hopefully he knows how to ride it.

From Nicky Hayden’s website:

“I was ready to take it for a few hot laps around the hood, but if anybody see me on the street they always wanna race. I guess they think if they beat me to the next stop light, then they’re gonna have a factory ride lined up with umbrella girls and the whole works!”

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Ducati on the eve of the MotoGP race launched the new 848 Nicky Hayden special edition and on Sunday ran almost the same livery design plus the Malboro bar codes on his Ducati Desmosedici GP9. So watch Nicky talk about Laguna Seca and being a Ducati rider.

The new livery gave the Kentucky Kid a boost, because he took 5th in the race, and it was his season’s best so far.

Continue reading: Nicky Hayden in Ducati 848 Shoot

Ahead of this weekend’s Red Bull United States Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Nicky Hayden unveiled the Ducati 848 Nicky Hayden Limited Edition.

The Hayden Edition is the 2010 model of Ducati’s middleweight sport bike and the livery recreates part of Nicky Hayden’s helmet design and has the Malboro Ducati’s rider personal autograph on the gas tank.

Unfortunately for Europeans, it’s a U.S. exclusive only and retails for about $ 14.495, a little more than 10.300 euros.

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Besides the introduction of the Mike Hailwood TT bike, NCR’s Ducati 848 was also present at the EICMA in Milan. Twowheelsblog went to visit the NCR stand to shoot some pictures for you.

The NCR Ducati 848 was built through a collaboration with the US Ducati factory. The bike and team rode in the Parts Canada Superbike Championship in the Thunder Class and won the Championship with riders Valter Bartolini and Andrew Nelson in a perfect year, with seven victories and seven pole positions in seven races.

It’s possible to build your own Ducati 848 into the NCR 848 model, because all the parts are commercialised by NCR. To give you an idea about the way this great bike can be built, we give you a nice example.

Continue reading: Eicma 2008: NCR's Ducati 848

“Ducati likes to win every Championship”, said Micha de Vries, Ducati North Europe’s Chief Operating Officer at the EICMA in Milan to Twowheelsblog.

Micha De Vries told about the new vision, the new logo and the new models. He said: “Our vision is to bring Italian design, quality and the best bikes. We want to stand for client friendly”. And more : “We are World Champion in Superbike, European Superstock 1000, second in MotoGP. We bring all our new models in a very short time, I think, if this was also a World Championship we won it also. Our new logo will stand for a heart and the curve of the road or racetrack. It means to be the heart of Ducati.

“It’s a new vision, it started a year ago and today we can see that it works. We will go for it, today with the Ducati Streetfighter and the new Ducati 1198, and with our 848, our new Monster”.

Continue reading: Ducati 2009: models and vision

The Ducati 2009 Superbike range comprises five models: the 848, light and agile, the new 1198, incredibly powerful and and the highly technical 1198 S, and the 1098 R, both equipped with the drive control system developed by Ducati Corse on its road version.

But to celebrate the third world championship superbike title won by Troy Bayliss, and to celebrate Bayliss’ retirement from professional racing, Ducati has created a 1098 R Bayliss Limited Edition, presented at the Eicma show. We’re putting together all the details from the presentation, but in the meantime enjoy these live shots of the Ducati limited edition.

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Cristine le Duc and Bernice Sangers are posing in this picture with their bike. Sunday, the girls will ride in the last race of this season, the 500 km from Assen. We’ll give you some updates on their efforts.

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The friendly Dutchman Arie Vos won again the Dutch Superbike Championship. Twowheelsblog spoke to him:

Arie Vos “Champion Open Dutch Superbike Class”, how does it feel?
It feels great, although it is the fifth championship in three years for me. This one is very special because at the beginning of the season a lot of people thought that I didn’t have a chance to defend my title due to the switch from Honda to Ducati. But from the start of the season it went very well. The Fabricom-MCT Racing Ducati ran the whole season perfectly. To win the title in my first year with Ducati feels superb! I’ve shown everybody that I can win also on another bike than a Honda. That was also the reason why I was so motivated from the start of the season.

Was it a difficult year for you?
At the beginning of the season everything was new, not only for me, but for the whole team. But that didn’t give me any problems. From race one I was fighting for the wins. The mechanics have done a superb job. I have to give them a big compliment.

Continue reading: Interview with Arie Vos: Dutch Superbike Champion

The NCR Ducati Team won the Canadian Thunder Championship riding a Ducati 848.
Twowheelsblog contacted NCR’s CEO Michele Poggipolini and here’s the interview we promised:

We know NCR from the Italian Supertwin Championship, Desmo Challenge, the Millona, New blue. Is NCR a race team or a manufacturer?
The Italian Supertwins, Ducati Desmo Challenge and all the other Open 2V races are extremely important to develop this Ducati kind of engine family. In four years NCR developed his own racing motorcycle, based on the Ducati 2V engine, the Millona, achieving impressive results and championships victories.

While we are still developing this Ducati engine and special parts for the Ducati bikes that use it, we are also focused on developing engine parts and kits for the new 4V Ducati engine family and the 84 is the project that started this development.

Continue reading: NCR Ducati 848: interview with CEO Michele Poggipolini.

NCR Ducati 848 is National Thunder Champion! The team competed against Buells, BMWs, KTMs and other Ducati teams, but the NCR Ducati team won every race in the series.

The team would like to thank Ducati North America, Poggipolini Titanium and all the fans around the world. Coming soon is a Twowheelsblog interview with Michele Poggipolini, the man behind NCR.

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The NCR Ducati 848 has won again, this time at the twisting and bumpy Atlantic Motorsport Park track in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The two riders, Andrew Nelson and the Italian Valter Bartolini were riding with big smiles on their faces enjoying the wild corners of the racetrack.

In race one Andrew’s shift lever broke and was leaving the bike in neutral after the first lap and Valter finished ahead of Michael Leon on his KTM with Michael Ferrera in third riding a BMW.
In race two, both riders got a good start and Andrew broke the class track record with a 1:09.173 leading the race before Valter.

Valter Bartolini is leading the Superbike Series in the Thunder Class with 256 points, team mate Andrew Nelson is second with 209 points. Third the Buell rider Darren James holds 198 points followed by Michael Ferrera, the BMW rider with 196 points.
The final round is on August 28-31 at Shannonville, Ontario.

Continue reading: NCR Ducati 848 won again: six in a row!

NCR Ducati wins at Mosport in the Canadian Superbike Championship.

Two races at Mosport in the Thunder Class of the Parts Canada Superbike Championship. After a win under dry weather conditions, the Italian Valter Bartolini won again under wet conditions using his supermotard wet sliding style. Valter is leading the Championship with 157 points and Ducati-NCR teammate Andrew Nelson as second with 155 Championship points. The next round will be at Schuberacadie, Nova Scotia on august 8-10th.

NCR serves Ducati North America as the official Ducati supported racing team in 2008 in the Parts Canada Superbike Championship. The team campaigns the Ducati 848 Superbike in the Canadian Thunder National Class.

Via | NCR

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