![]() ![]() New Ducati Corse boss Bernhard Gobmeier may not be much older than Filippo Preziosi, the man he replaces, but the grizzled veteran Paolo Ciabatti, taking the place of a more youthful Alessandro Cicognani, highlights the seriousness with which Ducati, under their new owners Audi are taking the whole affair. The overall impression is of a team which is slightly less Italian, but also one of vast experience. The numerous changes within Ducati Corse and especially the Ducati MotoGP team have been well documented, but at Wrooom, the scale of the change is made visible. The many new faces at Wrooom are testament enough to that. It may be the first step, but there is no doubt that it is a big one. Especially when seen from a distance, the result of only a select group of journalists being invited to attend the launch, and our names not being among them. That's how you might characterize the second day of Ducati's preseason launch event at Madonna di Campiglio in Italy. Read more about January 2013 Round Up: MotoGP and WSBK, The Story So Far.The aim is to build a strong WSBK series to stand alongside MotoGP, preserving the unique identity of the two series - WSBK as a place to race production bikes, MotoGP as the series for racing prototypes. World Superbikes will continue as a separate series, Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta was keen to explain when quizzed about the takeover at Ducati's Wrooom launch event early in January. It was feared that Dorna would either kill off World Superbike entirely to strengthen the position of MotoGP, or impose such stringent technical regulations on the series as to dumb it down to Superstock spec.įortunately, neither of those options looks likely. The question is even more pertinent now that both series have been taken under the wing of Dorna, much to the consternation of World Superbike fans and, to some extent, the WSBK paddock as well. Just what is the state of play for both MotoGP and World Superbike in 2013? Race results: Download Video Motogp Sepang 2013 Full Race Pos.With the first full test for the World Superbike class behind us, and the first test of the MotoGP grid about to get underway at Sepang at the end of this week, it is time to take a look at motorcycle racing's preseason, and evaluate where we stand so far. Among the other crashers were Andrea Iannone, who lost the front end of his Suzuki on lap one at Turn 15 while following Marquez, and Jorge Lorenzo's Ducati replacement Michele Pirro. ![]()
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