Ducati's asshole is hurtin' from the pounding it takes by Aprilia.:lol

What a bunch of wusses. And that's why they're known as the Harley-Davidson of Italy.

They aren't looking very good after this, cert not after the history of lobbying for special rules and exceptions in sbk. The back handed shots at aprilia turning it into a "prototype" series aren't helping either :lol:

Heard they were losing a lot of their "special" twin considerations and decided to hang it up.

I guess this means there won't be a 1298 now. :lol:

Might have to be a 1698 before they'd consider it "fair".

Hopefully Haga's back on a Yamaha next year.

im kinda guessing he ends up with JT's seat, JT goes to ten kate and neukirchner leaves the series. rea is a hondaphile he wont go anywhere unless a gp seat opens up, crutchlow is 90% likely to go tech3 and i wouldnt bet haslam stays put either

That all makes sense...

Now you are thinking of buell

Woah, woah, WOAH! LOL!

Aprilia is bad this year but any manufacturer that prototypes off a V4 is going to be bad ass. Really, but that really is a compliment for Aprilia. And that looks to be the direction Ducati want to take. Sit out, come up with a go fast protoype, race it after producing just enough to homologate it. Its after all the Ferrari business plan and it works. The folks who buy these bikes make sacrifices to own the very razors edge of speed, so why clutter it all up with street/public compromises?