I think it's due to him not wanting the pressure of being the preeminent Italian rider riding the premiere Italian bike. I have no doubt he would be competitive on a Ducati and would be the same championship caliber rider he is now/has been.
Simon tests for Ducati at Jerez
By Matt Beer Friday, March 19th 2010, 10:39 GMT
Ducati gave reigning 125cc champion Julian Simon two days of testing at Jerez this week.
The Spaniard was called up after Ducati's scheduled test rider Franco Battaini was injured.
Simon completed 115 laps for...
HERES THE FULL ARTICLE LINK WITH MORE IMAGES
Ducati patents frameless roadbike
By Gizmag Team
15:00 February 22, 2010 PST
Last year when we did an extensive feature on Ducati’s motogp carbon fibre semi-monocoque frame, we lauded its groundbreaking technology. Though Casey Stoner’s illness...
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Ducati unveil 2010 MotoGP contender
By Matthew Birt -
MotoGP
13 January 2010 17:16
This is the bike Ducati hopes will end Yamaha’s recent domination of the MotoGP world championship in 2010.
The GP10 was officially rolled out at Ducati’s 2010 team launch at the spectacular Italian ski...
LOTS Seen to be slipping out before Ducati's Lauch on thursday,
maybe Nicky got the photo's to show Vale.
Ducati's del Torchio On Rossi: "Why Not?"
by dean adams
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Ducati CEO Gabriele del Torchio (right) openly talked about Valentino Rossi possibly joining the Ducati...
http://www.sport.es/default.asp?idpublicac...dseccio_PK=1270
If you don't understand spanish(as I guess almost everyone doesn't!) use babelfish to translate the article.
The title of this thread should be 'indomitable'.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80118
Whinin' Rossi has now backpedaled on his interview with BBC about threatening to switch to Ducati if Lorenzo remains his teammate from 2011 and on, claiming they used his words out of context.
I love this quote by Jorge Lorenzo though...
Have just returned from Italy, and was talking to some well connected people about Ducati.
I have been told there are negotiations underway in two different directions, that could effect MotoGP / WSBK; (second hand details only, but sounds plausable)
VW have been negotiating to buy up to 50%...
Motogpmatters has published an interview with Filippo Preziosi about the new Ducati GP10 and in particular its new firing order. Ducati has forsaken the screamer engine and now the bike sounds "like a Yamaha". Is this the key to a more tractable bike? Early results are encouraging... Preziosi...
Ok, includes spoilers if you didn't guess
I think it's quite clear that this season was pretty much a disaster for Ducati. Much more so than last year. Every single Ducati rider will have to be able to perform better next year. Just look at this year's results:
Stoner...
Ducati MotoGP project manager Livio Suppo will leave the team after the season finale at Valencia this weekend.
Italian newspaper Gazetta dello Sport has reported rumours that Suppo is moving to the factory Honda team, but that has not yet been confirmed.
Ducati's general director, Claudio...
seems things are going on at Ducati this yr.from Casey.to Marlboro now Guareschi
is there a power struggle going on in and around Ducati.
Ducati promotes Guareschi to MotoGP team manager
Ducati Marlboro is set to promote former WSBK podium finisher Vittorio Guareschi from test rider to team...
According to M. Oxley (In RRW) Ducati is planning to field an 800cc Triple in Moto GP
in 2010. The engine was developed by Ferrari F1 and is to be supplied by
Oral Engineering. I haven't seen any confirmation of this elsewheres.
Anybody?
http://www.motomatters.com/news/2009/10/16...ucati_in_2.html
Will be interesting to see if he improves his performance on a duke, he's been quite disappointing on the Honda this year...
Good Article by Noyes, but with a seemingly far-fetched rumor at the end that is based upon local hearsay from Tavulia radio.
Interesting none-the-less.
Could all three world champions end up running red bikes in 2010?
http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/noy...ming-early//P1/