The beginnings. Founded by brothers Adriano, Bruno and Marcello Cavalieri Ducati in July 1926, Ducati initially established itself as a manufacturer of radio transmitters. At the beginning of World War II, the company had a workforce of 7,000 employees and had already diversified its range of products which included electric shavers, intercom, calculators, cameras and film cameras. In 1946, just as Italy tried to move on after the war, Ducati began production of the puppy, a four-stroke engine that was mounted on a bicycle frame.
1950: the puppy 50 cc beats 12 world records.
1951: the puppy 100cc speed records and establishes 24 hours.
1954 Fabio Taglioni, the renowned engineer Ducati, he began working at the plant.
1956: Gianni Degli Antoni, driving a Taglioni-designed desmodromic 125 single wins the GP of Sweden, the race is not valid for the world championship. On September 9, the same bike, led by Sandro Artusi, allow Ducati to their first points in the World in Monza with a 5th place in the Championship of Nations GP, 125cc class. Artusi will be classified 16th in the 125cc world.
1958: First victory in the World Championship for Ducati (125cc). On July 6, 1958, at Spa-Francorchamps, Alberto Gandossi wins the victory of the 125cc GP of Belgium. In the 125cc world Gandossi is ranked 2nd overall (25 points) behind the MV Agusta Carlo Ubbiali (32 points) and ahead of team-mate Luigi Taveri, 3rd place (20 points). The other world of Ducati 125cc victories in 1958: July 26, GP of Sweden, Hedemora Circuit Ducati one-two with Alberto Gandossi (1st) and Luigi Taveri (2nd); September 14, Italy, Monza – Ducati Grand Prix of the five nations in the top five: Bruno Spaggiari, Alberto Gandossi, Francesco Villa, Dave Chadwick, Luigi Taveri.
1960: Mike ‘The Bike ‘Hailwood, driving a 250 desmo twin-cylinder in line, leading to Ducati their first points in the World Championship (class 250).
1965 Taglioni designs 125 four-cylinder desmodromic not, but this bike is never raced .
1971: the first bike GP racer class, and the first V-twin Ducati, takes to the track. Briton Phil Read scores the first world championship points with the 500 GP at Monza.
1972: Ducati scores its most famous early success racing history with Paul Smart, winner of the 200 Miles Imola on a GT750 desmo V-twin.
1973: the Ducati 860 desmo V-twin wins the Barcelona 24 hours with riders Benjamin Grau and Salvador Canellas.
1978: former World Champion Mike Hailwood, like a fairy tale, go back to the Isle of Man TT and won the riding a 900SS F1 special, thus winning the first title World Ducati. Freddie Spencer in the United States, future World Champion, driving a 900SS took third place at the Daytona 200.
1981: Ducati scores the first of four world titles consecutive Formula 2 with Tony Rutter riding a 600cc Pantah TT2.
1987: the former 500cc World Champion Marco Lucchinelli, on the special guide to the 851 V-twin to 8 valves , won the first success of the “new era” Ducati to the “Battle of the Twins” Daytona.
This model, whose engine was designed by Gianluigi Mengoli and Massimo Bordi, is the forerunner of the legendary 916.
1988: Luchinelli and the 851 win the first round of the inaugural World Superbike Championship at Donington Park, finishing the season in fifth place overall.
1990: Raymond Roche, riding the 888 to 134 horsepower, winning the first World Superbike title for Ducati. The dominance of the Italian house continues with wins American Doug Polen in ’91 and ’92 championships. In 1993, Polen won the first title in the history of AMA Superbike Ducati.
1994: Ducati launches 916 which, led by Carl Fogarty wins the Superbike title at its first attempt. The Briton repeats the feat the following year, while the Australian Troy Corser won the title for Ducati in 1996.
1998: Fogarty takes his third Superbike on a 996, followed by the fourth title in the
1999. In 1999 Ducati Corse was established for the management of all the sports activities of the Borgo Panigale company.
2001: The Australian Troy Bayliss, with the 996 Testastretta , won the ninth World drivers’ title for Ducati in Superbike. In May Ducati announces its decision to participate in the new MotoGP World Championship.
2002: Bayliss, long head in the Superbike World Championship, finished the season in second place in very little behind the winner. Soon after starting testing of the Desmosedici, along with new team-mate Loris Capirossi. The V4 makes its public debut at the last MotoGP race in November in Valencia and the following month at Jerez during the first winter tests immediately establishes a lap record.
2003: Before victory in the World Championship for Ducati MotoGP class. Loris Capirossi and Troy Bayliss are the authors of the great debut of the Desmosedici MotoGP championship. Among other results, the Italian rider gets on the podium in Japan for the first race of the Desmosedici and an extraordinary victory in the Grand Prix of Catalunya. Ducati concludes the championship in second place in the constructors ‘standings, while Loris and Troy are respectively fourth and sixth in the drivers’ standings. Neil Hodgson, with the new 999, dominating the season and won the title in the World Superbike Championship. In addition, along with team-mate Ruben Xaus takes a total of 12 manufacturers titles won by Ducati.
2004: The 24 year old British rider James Toseland becomes the youngest ever winner of the Superbike title and leads the 999 to second consecutive win. Team-mate Régis Laconi finishes the championship in second place, ensuring the thirteenth manufacturers’ title for Ducati. The House of Ducati returns to the World Supersport with 749 and the young Italian rider Lorenzo Lanzi wins a deserved fifth place.
In MotoGP, Loris Capirossi and Troy Bayliss can close in a difficult growing season, which saw however, both the Ducati riders on the podium, demonstrating the Desmosedici project value.
2005: For the third consecutive year, Loris Capirossi is the rider of the Ducati team in MotoGP. The Italian driver wins two sensational victories in the last part of the season at Motegi and Sepang. The teammate is Spaniard Carlos Checa, who two halls times on the podium. Both pilots of the Superbike Team, James Toseland and Régis Laconi, win the races (three Régis and James), but they are not able to fight for the world title, while in the final phase of the season was born the Lorenzo Lanzi star, which He gets two stunning victories with a third 999 Official. Official commitment to Ducati Corse also in America, where Neil Hodgson and Eric Bostrom conquered four wins, with Bostrom ending AMA Superbike Championship in third place.
2006: It ‘s the season that concludes the cycle of the MotoGP engine capacity of 990 and ends in the sign of the House of Ducati with a historic double at the Valencia GP with Troy Bayliss and Loris Capirossi. The Italian rider is still the spearhead of the team in one of the most exciting MotoGP championships of all time and, with three wins out of 8 podiums, finished third overall. More subdued season of teammate Sete Gibernau, while proved fast on the Desmosedici GP 6, during the start of the Barcelona GP is unfortunately author of a spectacular accident that will affect the whole season.
After three years in MotoGP, Troy Bayliss returned to World Superbike for Ducati Corse and, five years after his triumph in 2001, he won a second world title by winning twelve races during the season. The Australian then wrote another splendid chapter in Ducati history with victory in the last race of the MotoGP championship at Valencia, where he replaced the injured Gibernau.
2007: First World Title for Ducati in the MotoGP class. Capirossi is joined by a new teammate, Casey Stoner, who won at his debut on the Desmosedici GP7 dominating the first race of the MotoGP era and 800. After that first resounding success, the young Australian has secured nine wins, four podiums and five pole positions. On September 23, Japan, Capirossi won his first race of the season while Stoner has put the seal on his incredible season making sure the MotoGP title and becoming the second-youngest champion in the history of the premier class after American legend Freddie Spencer. Two weeks later, the two goals Stoner and Capirossi at Phillip Island also gave the constructors’ title to Ducati House at the end of a historic treble full season with Team Title. Ducati is the first non-Japanese manufacturer to win the MotoGP title since 1973 when he won the MV Agusta. At the end of 2007 Stoner was joined in the Ducati Marlboro Team rider from twenty-five Italian Marco Melandri.
Troy Bayliss and Lorenzo Lanzi were ranked fourth and seventh in the World Superbike Championship in 2007, with several victories for the Australian. also successes for Niccolò Canepa rider Ducati Xerox Junior Team, which in
2007 is a graduate of the Superstock World Champion 1000.
2008: And ‘the second best season ever for Ducati in the MotoGP class with second place in both the drivers’ championship with Casey Stoner in both the Manufacturers’, despite the new teammate of the Australian champion, Marco Melandri, can not find her feeling with the Desmosedici for the championship. Stoner starts with a brilliant victory in the first race held at night, in Qatar, but in the subsequent races, for a variety of problems, lost ground in the standings until, in tests after the Grand Prix in Barcelona, Ducati engineers are putting to more suitable point to make the most of the full potential of the GP8. Followed by three victories in succession, in England, Holland and Germany but, after fought podium at Laguna Seca, two falls at Brno and Misano, and a physical problem caused by the reopening of an old fracture to his left wrist making it impossible for title defense . Nevertheless, the final crescendo with two podiums and another two convincing victories in Australia and Valencia make Stoner the vice-champion of the world, with the final score highest in history, and the House of Ducati most successful ever in the 800cc category with 17 wins in 36 races.
in World Superbike, Troy Bayliss graduated World champion for the third time in his career, the second with the Ducati Xerox colors, winning eleven races riding the novice while the Ducati 1098 F08 wins the Constructors’ title, in the fifteenth overall in the Superbike category since his debut in the series in 1988. the amazing career Bayliss, who has decided to retire from racing at the end of 2008, is rich in well 52 successes, ie 34.2% of races made, of 94 podiums in total and 26 pole positions and its three titles were won with three different evolutions of the Ducati Superbike.
the most beautiful Sundays of its exciting 2008 season are those of shotguns won at Phillip Island, Brno and Portimao in the appointment of the final. His teammate, Michel Fabrizio finished eighth overall with seven podium finishes to. In the Superstock 1000 Cup, the Australian rider Brendan Roberts, won the last race of the season at Portimao, his third season, and has won the title of the category, the second ever for the Ducati Xerox Junior Team.
2009: Ducati is again one of the protagonists in the fight against MotoGP title, in a season that alternates successes and difficult moments. Nicky Hayden is the new team-mate Casey Stoner, with which it shares a language, a competitive youth spent in the dirt track and the victory of the MotoGP World Championship, the American rider won in 2006.
the first race, at night in Qatar, after a delay of 24 hours to the torrential rain that had originally prevented the smooth running, is revealed for the third consecutive time the preserve of Stoner. Hayden, who fell in qualifying concludes 12th. And ‘the beginning of an uphill season for “Kentucky Kid” but, with determination and commitment, improves up to reach the third step of the podium in Indianapolis and ended the year in a positive way. The Australian rider, after the success in the first race and his first podium at Jerez with Ducati, the Italian House also gives the first victory at Mugello. Stoner looks started to fight again for the title until the end with Rossi, Lorenzo and Pedrosa, the four pilots who in 2009 demonstrated to have a superior to all step, but a physical problem it weakens to the point of making him decide to stop for three races mid-season, skipping the GP at Brno, Indianapolis and Misano.
It ‘a very difficult decision for the Australian rider, which automatically eliminates the rainbow challenge, but allows him to return for the Portuguese GP in October, again able to achieve its full potential in the saddle the GP9. Stoner gets on the podium at Estoril and won the next two Grand Prix, in Australia and Malaysia. In Valencia it is fast but falls during the warm-up lap of the race and lost the third position in the standings. Finishes fourth overall but conscious of having found speed and fitness. Noriyuki Haga, in his first season with the Ducati Xerox Team, necessary between the protagonists for the title fight from the first round of the championship, winning the first race at Phillip Island with his new Ducati 1198. This success followed by seven more triumphs, two “doubles” in Valencia and Kyalami, and a total of 19 podiums.
The win in Magny-Cours gives the official Ducati team the sixteenth Constructors’ title. The fight for the drivers’ title is open and fought until the last round in Portimao. Noriyuki arrived at the Portuguese circuit with a small ten points ahead of the Yamaha rider Ben Spies. In Portimao the audience watches to two highly spectacular races; the first was won by Spies and the second by Fabrizio, and unfortunately the title escapes Haga, in favor of American Spies, for six points. At the end of his second season with the Ducati Xerox Team, he concludes Michel Fabrizio in third place in the standings with 382 points after three wins in Monza, Imola and Portimao and a total of 15 podiums. In the Superstock 1000 class, the Ducati Xerox Junior Team won both the Constructors ‘and the Drivers’ title for the third consecutive year, with the young Belgian Xavier Simeon on the Ducati 1198. Out of ten races, Simeon it wins five, finishing second five times .
2010: Riding his GP10, equipped with a new engine “big bang”, Stoner qualifies on pole position in the opening race of the season but fell in the race while it is in command. The Australian struggled to regain his usual, very fast pace in the later rounds but in the end found a setup that satisfies him, puts a series of five consecutive podiums at Assen, Catalunya, Sachsenring, Laguna Seca and the Czech Republic. In GP inaugural Aragon arrives the first win of the season for Stoner, who lies beside him on the podium teammate Nicky Hayden, third, to crown the beautiful day of the Ducati team. Two other successes, Japan and Australia, call into Stoner game for the sprint for second place in the championship but dropping in Portugal and Malaysia limit it to fourth place, despite the good clearance in Valencia with the last podium pilot Ducati.
The Australian, in fact, he is having given the Italian House on his first world title in MotoGP, in 2007, in addition to 23 wins, 21 pole positions and 42 podiums in total, took the Honda at the end of 2010. The 2010 Nicky Hayden is a decided step forward compared to his previous season with Ducati. The American shows immediately able to fight for the podium but escapes, often narrowly, in the first four races out of five, where he won four seats quarters. The satisfaction of wearing his GP10 comes with a shotgun on the podium of the Ducati Marlboro Team at Aragon, where Hayden was third after a great last lap of Jorge Lorenzo. Finishes seventh in the championship because of three slips that make him lose the duel with compatriot Spies for sixth place, but this success proved throughout the season make him confident in the 2011 view.
2010 season proved challenging for the Ducati Xerox Superbike Team, with Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio who close the Championship respectively in sixth and eighth place. The team, however, has continued to work with the utmost commitment even in difficult times and in the end also many satisfactions came as the victories of Haga at Valencia and at the Nurburgring and that of Fabrizio at Kyalami. Between the two, the Ducati Xerox team achieved 12 podiums in total. For 2011, Ducati has decided to limit participation in the supply of motion and support for private teams, assisted technically by Ducati Team staff to allow these to have available means and even more competitive materials. The decision stems from a precise strategic decision to address the technical resources previously dedicated to the management of the official SBK team to develop a new generation of supersport bikes.
2011: The arrival Valentino Rossi in Ducati alongside Nicky Hayden, a former team-mate in the past, has aroused great enthusiasm among motorcycle enthusiasts around the world. The beginning of the season was complicated from the aftermath of the severe injury to his right shoulder, which effectively prevented him from exploiting the entire winter testing program to work on the development of the bike. The Italian champion has still got his first podium with the GP11 at the fourth race at Le Mans. Nicky Hayden also managed a podium in the second race of the season, Jerez. Valentino Rossi, Nicky Hayden and Ducati’s Reparto Corse were then engaged on two fronts: competing in the MotoGP World Championship in 2011 and develop the bike 2012, following the change of regulation saw the return to the bikes to 1000cc engine capacity. Superbike private Althea Racing Team, supported by Ducati engineers, led to victory the Ducati 1098 led by Spaniard Carlos Checa with 15 victories during the season. With this success Ducati has reached 14 world titles in the series.
2012: With the return of the MotoGP engine capacity of 1000cc, the Ducati Team experienced a difficult season, and Valentino Rossi Nicky Hayden and spend most of the year working to develop the Desmosedici GP12. Even if they can not win a race, the Italian gets a pair of second places in Le Mans and Misano, while Hayden, who spends part of the season to recover from injuries, qualifies front row in Jerez. Despite the disappointing results of the team, good performance in wet conditions show that the bike has potential. Following the final race of the season, the Italian Andrea Dovizioso is hired to run with Hayden, and his first outing aboard the bike, in the post-race test in Valencia, is promising.
In superbike, a rule change led to an increase in the minimum weight of the Ducati, so complicating the title defense by Carlos Checa with Althea Racing team. The Spaniard still managed to put together four wins, plus five other podiums, but was only fourth in the final standings. Meanwhile, his team-mate Davide Giugliano concludes his first year in the championship in tenth place, getting a couple of podiums. For the 2013 season, Ducati has announced that it will be the Alstare team of Francis Batta to debut in the race the official versions of the 1199 Panigale with riders Checa and Ayrton Badovini.
2013: one of the most difficult seasons in the history of Ducati ended with little satisfaction both in MotoGP and in World Superbike. In the MotoGP class, Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso did their best during the year to make competitive the Desmosedici GP13, but no luck. The best result of the Italian rider was fourth place in the French GP, with two front row starts in the races of Le Mans and Mugello, and the only time that the American rider has started from the front row was in Japan, with a fifth place in France as best result. Hayden left the Ducati Team at the end of the season after five years, and will be replaced from English Cal Crutchlow for next year.
In the partnership between World Superbike and Ducati Alstare was equally complex, because of a good dose of bad luck and a series of difficulties that the new 1199 Panigale has encountered in the development of the project according to the SBK Regulation so that, for the first time in the history of this championship, Ducati has been unable to obtain even a victory. Everything was difficult until the opening race in Australia when Carlos Checa, having conquered a fantastic pole, suffered the first of a series of injuries during the year, in addition to having conditioned the season, he contributed to the decision the 41 year-old Spaniard to abandon the races later this year. Third place for Ayrton Badovini in Moscow was the only podium of the season for the house of Borgo Panigale.
Eager to redeem this “annus horribilis” for the season standings in 2014, Ducati has decided to return to the World Championship Superbike in an official manner, with the two riders Chaz Davies and Davide Giugliano.
2014: Under the new technical guidance of Luigi Dall’Igna, the official Ducati team have improved a lot both in MotoGP in the World Superbike championship, although it still did not arrive successes in the competition.
in the MotoGP class, Andrea Dovizioso was joined by the British Cal Crutchlow in the Ducati Team, and the two continued to improve during ‘entire season. The Anglo-Italian couple brought the GP14 three times on the podium in Austin, Assen and Aragon, in addition to the pole obtained from the Italian rider in Japan. Even Andrea Iannone pilot of ‘factory supported’ Pramac Racing Team, got some good performance during 2014. Dovizioso ended the season in fifth final position and will continue with the Ducati Team in 2015 also joined by Iannone. In Superbike, the 1199 Panigale R was much more competitive than the previous year, and Davies and Giugliano could fight for the positions that count, going to occupy the top positions in numerous races. The former World Supersport champion has got two second places (in Imola) and two-thirds (in Portimao and Jerez), closing the season in sixth place, while his team-mate was equally fast, especially in qualifying, where he achieved two pole positions.
A third place at Assen and a second position in Portugal were the best results for the former Superstock 1000 champion, who finished the 2014 season – his first year on a factory team – in eighth place.
2015: the Desmosedici GP15, a completely new bike, took to the track for the first time in late February in Sepang, debuted with a fantastic double podium only a month after Qatar.
Andrea Dovizioso was in the lead for several laps and battled for the win until the finish while Andrea Iannone, on his debut racing for the Ducati Team, finished third. the Desmosedici has returned to be a player with five other podiums, the last of which obtained by Iannone at Phillip Island in two races later, Dovizioso got two second places and then after a few races a little ‘subdued at mid-season, after a really exciting race.
In Superbike Ducati has started a three-year sponsorship agreement and partnership with the Italian web company Aruba. The main goal was to bring to his first victory of the Panigale R, a milestone reached by Chaz Davies at Aragón. The Briton then replicated the result four more times, with a finish of impressive season that has taken him to second place in the overall standings. His teammate nell’Aruba.it Racing – Ducati Superbike Team, Davide Giugliano, has unfortunately suffered two serious injuries that compromised his season but has shown, thanks to the two pole position obtained in Imola and Portimao, to be one of the fastest drivers around the league.
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