Here is a name you should know, Claudio Domenicali. When it comes to selling off a few spare organs or checking the black market index to determine the value of your children this spring it’s likely going to be Mr. Domenicali to blame.  That’s because as Ducati’s head of new product development Mr. Domenicali is being touted as…

Streamers of champagne arc and forth from the podium, and smarter spectators are ducking for cover as those on the box today, BMW’s Oliver Jervis and Michael Taylor, and Ducati Toronto team racer Paul Penzo, celebrate their victories. The racers are engaged in a congenial battle, the foaming vintage mixing with the drizzle.  Amongst this…

Kent, Washington – “Any event like this can be a success on a beautiful sunny day,” says one fictional event organizer, “but it takes a special effort to do this in the wet.  So we arranged to have Ducati Northwest 2006 on the only full day of rain this month.  No breaks, no let ups…

It’s not that Brett McCormick is shielded from the Canadian Thunder Series’ maelstrom of strategies, tactics, politics and psychological plays. At 15-years old, racing’s figurative youngest son just seems set aside from it, the quiet kid in this sport’s raucous family. Everyone here seems to speak of “the Kid” with some sense of reverence. While…

Ripped from the imagined pages of conglomerate run newspapers, a paragraph summary of the Canadian Thunder Series final would likely leave you drowning in a puddle of your own drool.  “The Canadian Thunder Series, a series dedicated to air cooled twin motorcycles, concluded Sunday September 3rd, 2006 at Shannonville Motorsport Park (Shannonville, ON) with its…