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Carlos Checa has given the brand-new Ducati 1199R a perfect qualifying debut by claiming pole position for the opening round of the 2013 World Superbike Championship at Phillip Island.
A tenth career pole position for the man that has won four of the last five WSBK races to be held at the Australian venue, Checa would save his best until last as he swept to the top of the standings with his final lap...
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A reporter for Al Jazeera attended the Isle of Man TT last year and filed an interesting video report on the festival of racing and tragedy.
Vicki Smith for Ducati.net's insight:
Wow. Nice find SuperbikePlanet. Great account of an event that's hard to capture in a well rounded way. Delete the scoop?
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MCN Senior Road Tester Adam Child will compete in this year's lightweight TT race aboard a Kawasaki ER-6 with help from road racing expert Child - or Chad as he's known at MCN - has been professionally testing bikes for over 10 years, seven of which at MCN, and has already He will be riding for Ken Urwin Motorcycles near Doncaster who are currently building the bike with specialist help from Ryan and Here, Chad laps the mountain course onboard a brand new Ducati 1199 Panigale. Delete the scoop?
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Every self-respecting gearhead has a running list of places he or she wants to visit before the end of the gasoline age. When I was a kid, seeing photographs of salt-encrusted streamliners at Bonneville earned the Salt Flats a spot on my list. Images of Superbikes in the Eighties on the banks of Daytona added the raceway to my list. Seen On Any Sunday? Yup, Baja is on my list, too. And then there’s the Isle of Man TT. The thing that put the Isle of Man TT on my list was seeing a video of Dave Roper doing a lap of the TT course on the Team Obsolete factory Benelli 350 in 1993. The first time I saw it, there was no voice over, just the sound of the Benelli four-cylinder winding up and down through the gears, the camera looking from behind the bubble with the tachometer bouncing around at the bottom of the screen. Since then I’ve seen many videos and photographs of the 100-year-old TT road course, but that on-bike footage is my favorite. Delete the scoop?
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Watch the Best of the 2012 Isle of Man TT Click here for the RMediaRacing Formula 1 2012 Review Races 1 - 6 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrbtut_f1-review... ... Delete the scoop?
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Parochial fans too often talk about the 1978 TT as Mike Hailwood’s comeback. The familiar story goes that he returned after years away from racing, his Isle of Man victory made even sweeter by unexpectedly choosing to ride a Ducati rather than returning to Honda. Some people even gild the lily with tales of Hailwood arriving on the Island and having to come to terms with a left-foot gear change and a big Desmo twin when he’d last raced a right foot-changing 500 multi. Yet like so much of the received wisdom on Mike’s comeback, it’s all wrong. After the Nürburgring crash that mangled his right leg and ended his F1 career, Mike might have moved to New Zealand, but he certainly didn’t give up on bikes. The story of his real comeback to racing, and his journey to the Isle of Man was via the race tracks of Australia. The truth involved racing a Ducati 750SS in the Castrol Six Hour Race at Amaroo Park, a properly scary, knarled little race track where rock faces and concrete walls count as run off...more Delete the scoop?
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New grandstands and 'fan zones' around the course to to be introduced for 2012 Isle of Man TT races. Delete the scoop?
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