Ductalk

This year Ducati was the featured marque and the theme was F1's and the derivitives from the F1 - Montjuich, Laguna Seca, Santamonica and the TT2 and TT1. The text is in Dutch but the photos speak for the depth and quality of the event and the Ducati display. 

The Ducati museum in Bologna was also present with a large tent where a dozen bikes in the race history of the brand were exhibited. All V-twins, starting with a replica of the 750 racer (#16) which Paul Smart in 1972 the 200 miles from Imola won. Next up was the winner of the 24 Hours of Montjuich of 1975 (# 9) with its narrowed lower crankcase for extra ground clearance, and equipped with lights for night stages. The list of racers was closed by a team of 750SS Spaggiari and an NCR endurance racer. On the other side of the tent stood the TT1 and TT2 F1 which Marco Lucchinelli won the Battle Of The Twins race at Daytona in 1986. The four models were represented by 888, 916 and 999

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This 1988 Ducati 750 F1 is an exceptional, museum quality, original, unrestored example that would be a fine addition to any Ducati collection.

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Since the global financial crisis struck back in 2008, MotoGP’s primary focus has been on cutting costs. These efforts have met with varying success – sometimes reducing costs over the long-term, after a short-term increase, sometimes having no discernible impact whatsoever – and as a result, the grids in all three classes are filling up again.
Further changes are afoot – chiefly, the promise by Honda and Yamaha to supply cheaper machinery to private teams, either in the form of production racers, such as Honda’s RC213V clone, or Yamaha’s offer to lease engines to chassis builders – but there is a limit to how much can be achieved by cutting costs. What is really needed is for the series to raise its revenues, something which the series has signally failed to do.

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4th Annual Ducati TT/F1 Symposium - September 2nd - 4th, 2012 

The sights and sounds of a sea of Ducati TT1, TT2, and 750F1s.. A gathering of some of the most rabidly enthusiastic TT1 and F1 fanatics from all over the world..

The TT/F1 Symposium gets better each year and brings the bikes closer to their native habitat; the race track. The event’s come a long way from the first gathering at Lou Saif’s shop in Queens, NY. We had an excellent group the following year at Ralf Stechow’s shop in New Jersey the following year, followed by the mother of all TT/F1 extravaganzas at Vicki Smith’s Ducstock event last year at Barber Motorsports Park. But at Barber, we were still (but for the half-dozen racers) a distance from the track itself and we came away with that event with a desire to get the gathering into the pits and onto the track. The TTs (and their hot-rodded F1 cousins) are after all; pure racers – many of which are fully prepped for battle.

So, for 2012, the 4th Annual Ducati TT/F1 Symposium moves north to New Hampshire Motor Speedway www.nhms.com; a tight, twisty track in the Northeast US.

Connecticut enthusiast Mike Weber put a substantial amount of time into bringing a new Ducati TT and F1 class into the Loudon Road Racing Series for 2012 and this lets our machines duke it out on a more level playing field. The new class structure and a ‘perfect storm’ of events let Mike create a really neat, multi-discipline program for the 2012 Symposium that offers racing, track time and of course, the already famous static display of these amazing bikes...more

AUSTIN (CN) - The problem-plagued return of Formula 1 auto racing to the United States has hit another speed bump, as the founder and former promoter of the race sued his former project partners, claiming they froze him out of the project.
Tavo Hellmund and Full Throttle Productions sued six LLCs and four people,
Robert Epstein, Irv Kessler, Kurt Rechner and Rad Weaver, in Travis County Court. All the defendants are involved in the coming November's inaugural United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas, under construction in Travis County.
Hellmund claims in his complaint that he spent 7 years doing the footwork: designing the track and support facilities and securing the rights to host Formula 1, MotoGP and Australian V8 Supercars races in Texas, but he lacked the funding.
He claims that It says "financial moguls" Epstein and Billy Joe "Red" McCombs were given a 75 percent interest in the project in exchange for providing capital to build and operate the track...more

Some info from the seller-
Rare F1 Laguna Seca – only 50 imported in to the United States. Excellent condition with a few, typical Ducati, stress cracks in the fiberglass and a minor scuff on the elephant tank decal. 100% completely original down to the tires (hard as a rock). The engine runs fine but the carbs need to be synced and idle adjusted. It is obnoxiously loud with a uniquely Ducati roar. Not much else to say – you know what this bike is if you are looking at it. Clear title. Please ask questions before bidding....more