Wrist Injury Doesn’t Stop Nicky Hayden American Ducati MotoGP rider finished fifth in France.

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Just four rounds into the 18-race 2013 MotoGP World Championship, Ducati factory rider Nicky Hayden is already talking about having surgery at the end of the season to remove a screw from his right wrist. Hayden has complained about pain in that joint for some time. After the Spanish GP in Jerez, the 31-year-old Kentuckian [...]

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MotoGP: Ducati – Le Mans Report

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Ducati Press Release: Ducati Team riders Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden turned in strong performances in unpredictable race conditions in the French GP, taking their Desmosedici GP13 machines to fourth and fifth place, respectively. With the MotoGP riders having gone almost the entire race weekend at Le Mans with no wet riding, a light rain [...]

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MotoGP: Ducati – Jerez Free Practice Report

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Ducati Press Release: Free-practice for the Spanish Grand Prix kicked off today at the Circuito de Jerez, where DucatiTeam riders Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso posted the eighth- and twelfth-best times, respectively, on the day. The American is dealing with a tender right wrist, its recuperation having been more problematic than was hoped following a [...]

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Nicky Hayden Top Ducati Qualifier at Jerez American is “hopeful” for Sunday’s Spanish MotoGP race.

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Nicky Hayden will start Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez from seventh place on the grid, his best qualifying position thus far this season. The American’s quickest lap was a 1:39.6, less than a second slower than the pole-winning time of reigning MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo. Hayden’s factory Ducati teammate, Andrea Dovizioso, will start [...]

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MotoGP: Top Ten Quotes Insider insights from Circuit of The Americas.

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What’s the best part of a MotoGP race weekend? The racing, of course! Conversations with riders, engineers, team managers and other journalists, however, run a very close second because they frequently reveal what is actually happening on track. Here are points of emphasis from the inaugural Red Bull Grand Prix of The Americas, Round 2 [...]

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MotoGP: Ducati – CoTA Preview

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Ducati Corse Press Release: With the 2013 MotoGP world championship having recently kicked off in the Middle East, the Ducati Team is now headed for round two, which will mark the first motorcycle Grand Prix to be held in Texas. Situated near the state capital of Austin, the new Circuit of The Americas raises many [...]

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MotoGP: Ducati Makes Progress In Qatar

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Ducati Corse Press Release: A pair of strong performances during this evening’s exciting free-practice sessions in Qatar put Ducati Team riders Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden in a positive frame of mind for MotoGP’s new qualifying system, set to debut tomorrow night. The teammates were both well inside the top ten in combined free-practice times, [...]

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MotoGP: Dovizioso Puts Ducati On Pace

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Ducati Corse Press Release: In the debut of MotoGP’s exciting new qualifying system and his first qualifying session as a Ducati Team rider, Andrea Dovizioso had a successful Q2, with just .009 seconds separating him from the front row for tomorrow night’s season-opening Qatar Grand Prix, and just .446 seconds between him and pole-qualifier Jorge [...]

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MotoGP: Ducati Corse Qatar Preview

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Ducati Corse Press Release: Following a long winter of testing and preparing for the 2013 MotoGP championship, the Ducati Team finally heads to the Middle East this week for the first Grand Prix of the year, at Qatar’s Losail International Circuit. The squad has a much different look than it did just over four months [...]

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Analysis: Sepang II MotoGP Test Honda and Yamaha square off for pre-season supremacy.

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We’ve all seen the lap times and read the comments from the most recent MotoGP test at the Sepang Circuit in Malaysia. There were no big surprises: Dani Pedrosa on the dominant make, Honda, was fastest most of the time, but the current world champion, Jorge Lorenzo, on a factory Yamaha, ended up with the [...]

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