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The 2006
Goodwood Festival of Speed will see Ducati represented by
two fabulous machines with world famous riders on board. The
Ducati Corse MotoGP Team will be bringing their two-seater
MotoGP bike based on the Desmosedici GP6. It will be ridden
"up the hill' by GP legend Randy Mamola. The bike is very
similar to those ridden by Loris Capirossi and Sete
Gibernau, but with two seats offering VIPs at selected
events a unique, once in a lifetime experience of riding
pillion with GP winner Randy Mamola as their pilot.
Famous guests
who have ridden pillion on the Ducati Desmosedici include
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, ex-Formula One drivers
Gerhard Berger and Johnny Herbert, Olympic Gold medallist
Sir Matthew Pinsent, DJ and musician Goldie, Richard Jones,
bassist with the Stereophonics and most recently Michael
Schumacher. Randy Mamola has now taken over 200 passengers
on the Desmosedici who have experienced the 230 plus
horsepower of the Ducati two-seater.
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Sunday 25 June: Troy Bayliss extended his unbeaten
run to eight at the last round of the Superbike
Championship Misano Adriatico as the first race saw
the Ducati Xerox Team rider take a superb win from
seventh on the grid. With clinical efficiency
Bayliss picked off the six riders ahead of him on
the track one by one to take the lead on lap 11 and
power to the 25 points. The second race of the day
could have produced a similar result until Bayliss
slid onto the grass on lap 17 while challenging for
second place and then remounted to finish twelfth as
Andrew Pitt (Yamaha) headed for his maiden WSBK win. |
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F1 racing's most
successful rider Michael Schumacher experienced a
new kind of thrill today, riding round Mugello
aboard the Ducati Marlboro Team Desmosedici
two-seater. The seven-time World Champion rode two
laps of the high-speed circuit behind former GP
winner Randy Mamola (above), after several other
guests had taken their turn, including the reigning
Miss Italy, Edelfa Masciotta. |
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The Ducati Xerox World Superbike team are bringing along
their awesome 999F06 machine with current runaway points
leader, Australian Troy Bayliss as rider. The 2001 Superbike
champion will make a number of exhibition runs at the famous
Goodwood hill. Ducati legend Troy Bayliss has made a welcome
return to World Superbikes this year after three years
racing in MotoGP.
World Superbikes is where the hard-charging Australian
really made his name and after finishing 6th in his first
season in 2000, he became World Champion in 2001 before
finishing runner up in an epic battle with Colin Edwards in
2002. Troy also won the British Superbike Championship for
Ducati in 1999. So far this year Troy has been almost
unbeatable, and has won eight races in a row aboard his
194hp 999F06.
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