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Ducati Winchester, the home of Duc Pond Motosports, would like to invite you to spend the Indianapolis MotoGP with us in style!  We have reserved one of the infamous Gasoline Alley Suites, located on pit lane above the MotoGP garages, and we have a limited number of spots available to you all.  Included in the package are hotel accommodations for Friday and Saturday night, a general admission ticket for the MotoGP on Aug. 16-18, a suite access pass, meals on select days (snacks will always be available), beverages, and the really cool one is we have access to a limited number of Paddock passes, which are not available to the public at Indy.. This is the place to get up close with the men and their machines, where you can feel the power…

                Pricing for this amazing opportunity is as follows: $600 per person with a shared room, $650 per person for a single occupancy room, and if you want to make your own lodging arrangements, it is $400 per person.

                We are currently taking non-refundable deposits of $300 per person to reserve your space, and slots are filling up quickly, so don’t delay!  Reservations can be made by calling Ducati Winchester at 540-667-3498. 

Fans attend the Ducati Island event at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

SPEEDWAY, IN, AUG 16 - Ducati Marlboro's Valentino Rossi was always going to be the center of attention at the pre-race news conference for the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix. But a widely circulated "interview" with world champion Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) nearly stole the spotlight.

In an interview most widely seen on the website of England's Motorcycle News, Stoner was harsh in his criticism of both Rossi and crew chief Jeremy Burgess, and their inability to make the Ducati a proven race winner. Stoner didn't deny having made the comments, but he quickly pointed out that they weren't made en masse, as presented.

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MotoGP is 100 times more compelling and impressive than any type of four-wheeled racing, and it should be, if not a top-five sport, at least more popular than the goddamned NHL. Which it’s not.

The world famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway has a policy, possibly related to how world famous it is, against releasing official attendance figures for the events it hosts. Nevertheless, conventional wisdom has it that on Indy 500 day there’s an ass in every one of the 250,000 or so grandstand seats on the premises, plus a small city’s worth of revelers going HAM in the infield. The Indy is basically Woodstock (with a demographic that’s the opposite of Woodstock’s), and it happens every year. Google Image it. It’s pretty amazing, especially when you consider that, at this point in the continuing saga of the United States zeitgeist, the race—which, in terms of socioeconomic-strata- and region-spanning popularity, used to be something like what the Kentucky Derby also no longer is—retains about as much cultural cachet as New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.

On the other hand, at the Red Bull Indianapolis GP a couple weeks ago—part of MotoGP, the motorcycle equivalent of Formula One auto racing—unofficial attendance at the Brickyard was, according to media-center scuttlebutt, between 60,000 and 70,000. Not bad if you’re the promoter and you’ve designed your budget properly, but it’s impossible to overstate how wan and tumbleweed-strewn the facility—whose 1,025-acre immensity TV doesn’t even begin to capture—seems when occupied by that number of people. If you’ve been to Busch Gardens ten minutes after the passing of a named tropical storm, you have some frame of reference.

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IndyGP Ducati Owner "Base Camp" is open for booking and we have the whole hotel reserved again, just for us!

All rooms are $99.99 and include the daily 2 drinks and food happy hour Drury's are famous for.  Those that stayed here last year know how much fun the Ducati Dormatory was, and being just down the street from Ducati Indy was another bonus!

FYI - This year IndyGP runs on the same weekend as Comic Con and the State Fair so rooms are pricey and in short supply.  Once this hotel books out, Ducati.net has no plan for an overflow hotel.

See you at the races.....