Ducati’s decision to incur the engine rules penalty (after using their 7th engine of the season) and start Valentino Rossi from the pit-lane put another dark cloud over yet another race weekend for the factory team – but it was a tactical decision that they are hoping will pay off in the future. Rossi now [...]

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Misano is definitely not Nicky Hayden’s track – Hayden fell while exiting Turn 15 on the third lap and is yet to complete a race there. Valentino Rossi had a better time in front of his home fans, and changes that were made in the morning warm-up meant Rossi could maintain a more consistent race [...]

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Valentino Rossi wore a custom helmet design at Misano that reflected his current mood on how his season has been going. The helmet featured a speech bubble full of swear words and curses coming from under his visor. However, by the end of a tough qualifying session at Misano, Rossi sounded more positive about the [...]

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Ducati had a terrible weekend at the Indianapolis MotoGP – Capirossi and Abraham both retired complaining that there was no front-end feeling in the bike, Hector Barbera crashed on the final lap, and both factory riders Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden slipped steadily backwards during the race. Only Randy De Puniet managed a respectable result [...]

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The factory Ducati team arrive in Indianapolis with a degree of uncertainty about what to expect from this weekend’s MotoGP. The recent test day at Brno showed that a few tweaks and settings may have been discovered to improve the handling of the Ducati, and Valentino Rossi spent the entire test searching for the keys [...]

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