Here’s a small pictorial evolution of the Ducati Desmosedici GP bike designed and developed by the creative genius of Fillipo Preziosi, from it’s debut in 2002 to the current 2010 bike that will contest this season’s MotoGP championship with Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden.

Before the jump the GP2.

Continue reading: A Pictorial Evolution of the Ducati Desmosedici from the GP2 to GP10

After Valentino Rossi’s interview with BBC2 about going to Ducati and subsequently saying that his words were wrongly interpreted, now Ducati has come out with their own statements.

Filippo Preziosi, Ducati’s General Director and genius behind the Desmosedici, which we know that Rossi highly appreciates the Italian engineer and that the sentiment is reciprocated by Preziosi.

Interviewed by the Gazzetta dello Sport during the Valencia tests, Filippo Preziosi, said that it was too early to think about 2010 (when Stoner, Pedrosa, Lorenzo and Rossi’s contracts are all up) but admitted that he wouldn’t mind having Rossi in his team.

“I think that it’s premature to starting talking about this, because Valentino has already said that he won’t decide his future until June 2010.”

If I would like to have him with us? I think that any manufacturer would like to have on their bike a rider that’s the 9 times World Champion. I’m not saying something that no one knows, he’s very strong. I think that our bike goes well with all the riders and it’s not that object that used to frighten riders. Stoner went very well all weekend and in the tests with this new bike. Hayden was fifth in the race and in the tests.”

Continue reading: Ducati – Filippo Preziosi: “Who wouldn’t want Rossi?”

While Marco Simoncelli was in the media limelight with his two day test on the Aprila RSV4, Mattia Pasini was quietly concluding his three day test on the Ducati Desmosedici GP9, despite two spills, one yesterday and one today. The Italian rider today registered a best time of 1.51.9 out of 40 laps , while test rider Vittoriano Guareschi, testing different updates for the 2010 bike, posted a best time of 1.51.7.

Pasini has received several offers to race in next year’s new Moto2 class, but has yet to decide for which team he’ll be riding for, because he may get an offer to rider in MotoGP from Pramac Ducati.

Mattia Pasini:

“It was really a great and positive experience and I think I could have recorded a faster personal best.Unfortunately I fell this morning at the “Correntaio”, having made a strong start to the day with a good feeling due to the changes we had made towards the end of yesterday’s session. The changes made a difference as today I immediately went a second faster in the first exit. I didn’t injure myself too badly but hurt my neck which perhaps affected my riding; I think that otherwise I would have been able to drop another second before the end of the day. Anyway, I repeat that it has been a fantastic experience and I thank Ducati and the team who have looked after me during these three days. We will see each other again at Estoril next week.”

Continue reading: Mattia Pasini Concludes Testing with Ducati

Masao Furusawa may have said that Valentino Rossi is a genius and that he wants the Italian superstar to finish his career in Yamaha and Rossi has said confirmed several times that he too would like to finish his career with the Iwata company, but since Jorge Lorenzo has resigned for another year, the Italian rider has been talking differently and sending out signals to both Yamaha and Ducati.

The factory Yamaha team has been a Rossi stronghold since his sensational switch from Honda back in 2004 and Lorenzo’s presence in the garage despite the wall, is starting to annoy the 8 times world champion.

Lorenzo as a team mate has become one of Rossi’s most formidable rivals on track, the Italian has voiced his opinion about the fact that the Spaniard will now have a say in part of the development of the M1 as part of his contract agreement and that the team will now two top riders instead of the usual one that all of the other teams have.

Continue reading: Rossi sending messages to Yamaha and Ducati?

Ducati’s Casey Stoner is always upset and angry when slower MotoGP riders try to hitch a tow from him.

The Australian has been seen kicking out at rivals and giving them the finger, like in Assen GP qualifying session against Sete Gibernau and naming names of riders who do it regularly and disturb him.

This is a new device that Filippo Preziosi has thought up and designed to keep other riders away from his star, obviously it’s only a prototype, but we think it will work perfectly.

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Continue reading: Casey Stoner's Anti-Tow Device

Retired three times SBK Champion Troy Bayliss completed his first day of testing of Desmosedici GP9 at Mugello yesterday alongside test rider Vittoriano Guareschi. It was a first time that Bayliss got back on a MotoGP bike after his sensational win at Valencia back in 2006.

Last year Ducati tried to line up Bayliss and Max Biaggi test ride the GP8 in order to to find out why their struggling riders (Melandri, Elias and Guintoli) were languishing near the back of the grid. The proposal fell through when Bayliss declined saying that his priority was winning his 3rd title and Biaggi was injured and had to beg off.

Having Bayliss test ride this year’s Ducati and the GP10, Livio Suppo is hoping that some of the feedback will help this year’s struggling riders and find out why they’re not doing at least the same times as pre-season testing and that Preziosi render the GP10 a rider friendly bike or they may not find someone willing to ride the red missile from Borgo Panigale.

Continue reading: Troy Bayliss on the Ducati Desmosedici GP9

Here’s Borgo Panigale second episode on Ducati Desmosedici RR which explains the technical aspects of this street legal MotoGP motorcycle.

If you missed the first episode , check it out after the jump.

Continue reading: 2° Video of the Ducati Desmosedici RR

This is the first episode of a series of official Ducati videos about their meanest machine the Ducati D16 RR.

Continue reading: Ducati Desmosedici RR Video