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Stoner (1st) and Lorenzo (2nd) are the only riders that made a Sepang's lap under 2.02. This is the result of the first official session day in Malesia for MotoGP. This is also the first day in an official test for Valentino Rossi and his Ducati. Ath the end of the day Vale is 12th and his teammate 13th. “Rarely have I been this happy with a twelfth place, because after the test at Misano, we were pretty pessimistic considering how bad I felt there. It went better here though, especially in the morning, and we were able to do 20, 25 laps at a decent speed. Although we still have a lot of work to do, but we did a lot today: we worked on the riding position, and we’re starting to understand, among the many details that we can adjust on this bike, what the best solutions are. The Ducati’s DNA doesn't need to be changed; we have to take advantage of the positive aspects and improve the others. Unfortunately, it became more difficult when I lost a lot of strength in the afternoon, but in the end I was able to do about fifteen more laps. Let’s say that at the moment, I have quite a bit of pain and not much strength, whereas the opposite would be preferable! The hardest parts are the straights and on hard braking into right corners, like Turn 1 and Turn 4; there alone I lose about a second, whereas the rest of the lap is okay, because compared to Valencia, I’m able to ride much better. It will be important to be able to rest well tonight in order to regain some mobility so that I can do 30 or 40 laps tomorrow. I’ll have a relaxing massage and put ice on it.”
“Obviously, said Nicky Hayden, being off the pace isn’t how you want to start the first official test, but it’s good to be back out there. We had a lot of little things to try, including a new throttle that I liked a lot. The new anti-wheelie was working well, but this isn’t really a track where you notice that a lot. We’ve still got a lot more parts to evaluate before we can draw many conclusions. They did a lot over the winter—not just on the bikes, but they’ve really stepped the game up with new tools and equipment in the garage. Everyone is clearly working hard as usual. It was nice to be back on the track, and to be around the team again.”

Mugello Circuit and Promo Racing Firenze open the 2011 season with a day completely dedicated to free practices of the car. It will be possible to go on track with your own car or with GT cars or Touringcars. Free  practice will be 25 minutes but special prices if you buy all the practices of the morning, afternoon or the entire day. This activity will be repeated in February, 12th, 13th and 19th. More info about this events on www.promoracing.com

Dorna has revealed the official list of 2011 Road Racing World Championship

MOTOGP
1- Jorge Lorenzo - Yamaha Factory Racing - Yamaha YZR M1
4- Andrea Dovizioso - Repsol Honda Team - Honda RC212V
5- Colin Edwards - Monster Yamaha Tech 3 - Yamaha YZR M1
7- Hiroshi Aoyama - San Carlo Honda Gresini - Honda RC212V
8- Hector Barbera - Aspar Team - Ducati Desmosedici GP11
11- Ben Spies - Yamaha Factory Racing - Yamaha YZR M1
14- Randy De Puniet - Pramac Racing Team - Ducati Desmosedici GP11
17- Karel Abraham - Cardion AB Motoracing - Ducati Desmosedici GP11
19- Alvaro Bautista- Rizla Suzuki MotoGP - Suzuki GSV-R
24- Toni Elias - LCR Honda MotoGP - Honda RC212V
26- Dani Pedrosa - Repsol Honda Team ? Honda RC212V
27- Casey Stoner - Repsol Honda Team - Honda RC212V
35- Cal Crutchlow - Monster Yamaha Tech 3 - Yamaha YZR M1
46- Valentino Rossi - Ducati Marlboro Team - Ducati Desmosedici GP11
58- Marco Simoncelli - San Carlo Honda Gresini - Honda RC212V
65- Loris Capirossi - Pramac Racing Team - Ducati Desmosedici GP11
69- Nicky Hayden - Ducati Marlboro Team - Ducati Desmosedici GP11

 MOTO2
3 - Simone Corsi - Ioda Racing project - Ioda
4 - Randy Krummenacher - Gp Team Switzerland Kiefer Racing - Kalex
9 - Kenny Noyes - Avintia-Stx - Ftr
10 - Fonsi Nieto - G22 Racing Team - Moriwaki
12 - Thomas Luthi - Interwetten Paddock M2 Racing - Suter
13 - Anthony West - Mz Racing Team - Mz-Re Honda
14 - Ratthapark Wilairot - Sag Team - Ftr
15 - Alex De Angelis - Jir Moto2 - Motobi
16 - Jules Cluzel - Forward Racing - Suter
21 - Javier Fores - Mapfre Aspar Team - Suter
25 - Alex Baldolini - Forward Racing - Suter
29 - Andrea Iannone - Speed Master - Suter
34 - Esteve Rabat - Blusens-Stx - Ftr
35 - Raffaele De Rosa - G22 Racing Team - Moriwaki
36 - Mika Kallio - Marc Vds Racing Team - Suter
38 - Bradley Smith - Tech 3 Racing - Tech 3
39 - Robertino Pietri - Italtrans Racing Team - Suter
40 - Aleix Espargaro - Pons Racing - Pons Kalex
44 - Pol Espargaro - Hp Tuenti Speed Up - Speed Up
45 - Scott Redding - Marc Vds Racing Team - Suter
49 - Kev Coghlan - Motorsport 69 - Ftr
51 - Michele Pirro - Gresini Racing Moto2 - Moriwaki
53 - Valentin Debise - Speed Up - Speed Up
54 - Kenan Sofuoglu - Technomag-Cip - Suter
60 - Julian Simon - Mapfre Aspar Team - Suter
63 - Mike Di Meglio - Tech 3 Racing - Tech 3
64 - Santi Hernandez - Sag Team - Ftr
65 - Stefan Bradl - Viessmann Kiefer Racing - Kalex
68 - Yonny Hernandez - Blusens-Stx - Ftr
71 - Claudio Corti - Italtrans Racing Team - Suter
72 - Yuki Takahashi - Gresini Racing Moto2 - Moriwaki
75 - Mattia Pasini - Ioda Racing Project - Ioda
76 - Max Neukirchner - Mz Racing Team - Mz-Re Honda
77 - Dominique Aegerter - Technomag-Cip - Suter
80 - Axel Pons - Pons Racing - Pons Kalex
88 - Ricky Cardus - Qmmf Racing Team - Moriwaki
93 - Marc Marquez - Team Catalunya Caixa Repsol - Suter
95 - Mashel Al Naimi - Qmmf Racing Team - Moriwaki

125 CLASS
3- Luigi Morciano - Team Italia FMI - Aprilia
5- Johann Zarco - Ajo Motorsport - Derbi
7- Efren Vazquez - Ajo Motorsport - Derbi
11- Sandro Cortese - Racing Team Germany - Honda
12- Daniel Kartheininger - Caretta Technology Race - KTM
15- Simone Grotzkyj Giorgi - Worldwide Race - Aprilia
17- Taylor Mackenzie - Worldwide Race - Aprilia
18- Nicolas Terol - Bancaja Aspar Team - Aprilia
19- Alessandro Tonucci - Team Italia FMI - Aprilia
21- Harry Stafford - Ongetta Centro Seta - Aprilia
23- Alberto Moncayo - Andalucia Cajasol - Aprilia
25- Maverick Vinales - PEV Blusens SMZ Paris Hilton - Aprilia
26- Adrian Martin - Motorsport 69 - Aprilia
30- Giulian Pedone - Worldwide Race - Aprilia
31- Niklas Ajo - TT Motion Events Racing - Aprilia
39- Luis Salom - Molenaar Racing GP - Aprilia
40- Sergio Gadea - PEV Blusens SMX Paris Hilton - Aprilia
43- Francesco Mauriello - WTR Ten10 Racing - Aprilia
44- Miguel Oliveira - Andalucia Cajasol - Aprilia
52- Danny Kent - Red Bull Ajo Motorsport - Derbi
53- Jasper Iwema - Molenaar Racing GP - Aprilia
55- Hector Faubel - Bancaja Aspar Team - Aprilia
63- Zulfahmi Khairuddin - AirAsia SIC Ajo - Derbi
69- Sarath Kumar - WTR Ten10 Racing - Aprilia
71- Tomoyoshi Koyama - Racing Team Germany - Honda
72- Alexander Kristiansson - Matteoni Racing - Aprilia
76- Hiroki Ono - Caretta Technology Race - KTM
77- Marcel Schrotter - Mahindra Racing - Mahindra
84- Jakub Kornfeil - Ongetta Centro Seta - Aprilia
94- Jonas Folger - Red Bull Ajo Motorsport - Derbi
96- Louis Rossi - Matteoni Racing - Aprilia
99- Danny Webb - Mahindra Racing - Mahindra

It's a success the presale for the  Italian Grand Prix of motorbike: it's increased of 45% if compared with the same period of the last year. There's an huge interest at the Centrale Grandstand, the new covered one structure of Mugello Circuit.
Now you can get tickets with a discounted price from 10 to 20% clicking on www.ticketone.it.  This second opportunity will take place until the end of february.  

The Ducati Marlboro Team was officially presented on the snow-covered slopes of Italy’s prestigious winter mountain location, Madonna di Campiglio. Ducati CEO and President, Gabriele Del Torchio, met the media and gave interviews regarding the current motorcycle market situation and the ever-growing prestigious and significant role played by Ducati within the international motorcycling industry. “2010 was the final year of our three year strategic-industrial plan, presented in January 2008. Over this period, Ducati economic and financial figures increased exponentially in terms of profitability and production. Registrations increased by 5% in 2010, reaching 36,200 motorcycles, enabling us to achieve a market share of 8.6%, a 1.5 point improvement compared to the final figures of an already positive 2009. Ducati is growing on all markets and especially in Italy, where our share today is more than 15%, and in North America and the Far-East where sales increased by 64%. The dramatic impact of the world crisis on this specific market (-52% over the three past years) saw the motorcycling industry lose 12.1% and 13.7% for our specific segment.
In this harsh environment Ducati completed a significant turnaround, meeting all planned goals and constantly investing on research and development of new products. Since 2007 Ducati presented 12 brand new models, two more than the original plan. But being innovative is not enough and the fact that defects found on bikes during the guarantee period have now been reduced by 50% speaks volumes about the progress made on the quality side of our work.A great contribution to 2010 was provided by the Multistrada 1200. Although the motorcycle has only been available since April 2010, 8,887 were sold and 7,200 registered, conquering 14.3% market points in its segment. It was its first year on the market and the Multistrada became the second world-best-seller.In 2011 a new three-year strategic planning has started, during which we will mainly focus on our growth, both in our traditional markets and in the new ones, and on strengthening our financial and economic structure. Our new industrial plan for 2011-2013 will challenge us with crucial targets in all directions and our main objective will be to continue to deliver more innovative, premium products to Ducatisti world-wide. Races will still be the best “advanced research and experience”  laboratory and our most efficient means of keeping our passionate and faithful Ducati fans all over the world as close to us as possible.
Let me welcome Valentino Rossi, and welcome back Nicky Hayden, on behalf of the whole company and let me thank all our sponsors, especially Marlboro, whose contribution has been crucial since the very beginning of our adventure into the MotoGP Championship. Ducati will remain in 2012 the icon of excellence it has so far proven to be and will deliver “Made in Italy” to markets all over the world. This year we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of Italian Unity and we are proud to accept the invitation of our country’s President, Giorgio Napolitano, by placing the Italian Tricolore on Valentino’s and Nicky’s motorcycles.”

Valentino Rossi needs 5 or 6 month to be at top of his condition. So the doctor will be ready for the Italian GP, that will be hosted at the Mugello Circuit in July, 3rd.
He spoke at the Wroom event in Madonna di Campiglio. Niky Hayden too is ready for the 2011 season with Ducati: he knows very well Valentino e no wall - ha said - will divide the team why Ducati is just a family...
The first pictures of this event on line..

Fully decked out in Ferrari red, Madonna di Campiglio is all set to welcome the twenty-first edition of “Wrooom”, the traditional new year meeting with the press of the Ferrari Marlboro and Ducati Marlboro teams, that starts tomorrow, 11th January and runs until Friday 15th.The 2011 F1 and MotoGp Press Ski Meeting will host the first official outing in Ducati colours of Valentino Rossi. This will be Fernando Alonso's third trip to the “Pearl of the Dolomites” following his debut last winter and his appearance at the first Summer Wrooom (August 2010). Meanwhile Felipe Massa and Nicky Hayden are veteran visitors to this unique tourist resort in the heart of the Dolomites-UNESCO World Heritage Site.A packed program of events will give the crowds plenty of opportunity to get up close to the Ferrari Marlboro and Ducati Marlboro champions. Wrooom week gets underway at 17.30 on Tuesday by a public meeting with the Ducati pilots (17.30 Canalone Miramonti) and on Thursday with the Ferrari drivers (again at 17.30 at the Canalone Miramonti). Finally, on Friday at 16.45 the four champions will face off in their Panda 4X4s for a spectacular challenge on the ice track at the frozen lake. From Monday through Friday, Wrooom week will see skiing competitions, torchlight processions, press conferences, meetings with racing fans from around the world and exhibitions of the cars and bikes for a blend of official dates and fun time on the snow as the engines warm up for the start of the next F1 and MotoGp season.

There's a very excellent news for the fans of Mugello Circuit and motorsport. The big discounts'tickets of the Italian Grand Prix will be available until the 10th of January. The decision of the management of the tuscan circuit was taken after the big request of tickets during Xmas' week. Untile the 10th of January you will buy tickets with a reduced price between 10 and 30%. There's a lot of interest about the new Centrale Grandstand (see the rendering) but this is not the only news of the GP of the next year. Stay with us and you will discover what's new.....