Spaniard Luis D’Antin has stepped down as boss of the Alice Ducati team with immediate effect. D’Antin is expected to make a statement later but it has been confirmed he resigned after the Dutch GP in Assen and is no longer with Ducati’s satellite squad that runs Toni Elias and Sylvain Guintoli. MCN understands the decision was taken for financial ...
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- 10 July 2008
As was revealed by MCN on August 19 in Brno, the D’Antin Ducati team has finally confirmed the signing of French rider Sylvain Guintoli for the 2008 MotoGP world championship. Guintoli has signed a two-year deal with the Spanish-based satellite Ducati squad in a deal confirmed tonight in Estoril, ahead of tomorrow’s 28-lap Portuguese GP. The British-based rider was left ...
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- 16 September 2007
French rider Sylvain Guintoli has signed a pre-contract agreement and will join Ducati’s satellite MotoGP squad in 2008. Guintoli was squeezed out of the Tech 3 Yamaha squad after Colin Edwards agreed to join James Toseland for next season at the Czech Republic GP in Brno.Edwards has moved to make way for reigning world 250 champion Jorge Lorenzo in the ...
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- 19 August 2007
Ducati’s satellite team boss Luis D’Antin has confirmed to MCN he is in talks with four riders about a 2008 MotoGP world championship ride. Although Luis D’Antin is keen to retain Brazilian veteran Alex Barros, Ducati want a much younger line-up in its satellite team, with the aim of grooming them for an eventual move to the Marlboro-backed factory team ...
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- 10 August 2007
Ducati team boss Luis D’Antin reckons he has been surprised by the impressive performance of British rider Chaz Davies in the American MotoGP. Davies was thrown in at the deep end yesterday afternoon when he got a last-minute call-up to replace injured German rider Alex Hofmann on the D’Antin GP7 in Laguna Seca. He had never even sat on a ...
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- 22 July 2007
Alex Hofmann and Jose Luis Cardoso will race for the D'Antin Ducati team in 2006, although it isn't known which tyres the team will use. Cardoso returns to the MotoGP paddock following time in World SUperbikes, while Hofmann became free after Kawasaki opted not to extend his contract at the end of last season. Meanwhile in 125cc and 250cc, Matteoni ...
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- 16 December 2005
Luis D'Antin has signed Rolfo to ride a Ducati on Dunlops and is in negotiations with Shane Byrne. Maybe not the best bike and the best tyres but its MotoGP ride all the same. Still, its got to be better than the Aprilia even with Michelins.
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- 29 December 2004
Ducati has confirmed making an approach to current 250GP world championship leader Mika Kallio for 2009. Factory team boss Livio Suppo confirmed the Finn is on a list of potential targets and he held more talks with the KTM rider in Assen last month. Suppo denied that Kallio was in line to partner reigning world champion Casey Stoner in its ...
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- 03 July 2008
New Alice Ducati recruit Toni Elias will undergo surgery to remove pins and screws in his left leg later this month. Elias suffered a serious fracture to his femur on the first day of the Dutch TT in Assen back at the end of June. The injury severely disrupted Toni Elias’s final season with the Gresini Honda squad. He missed ...
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- 09 November 2007
Chaz Davies is hoping he can put himself in the shop window for a full-time MotoGP ride in 2009 after he clinched a deal to join Alex Barros in the D’Antin Ducati team for the final three rounds in Phillip Island, Sepang and Valencia. Davies got final confirmation on Friday from Spanish team boss Luis D’Antin that he will be ...
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- 01 October 2007
