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Why Ducati isn't winning anymore

Valentino Rossi has suffered a disastrous 2011 season since switching to Ducati, while the man he replaced, Casey Stoner, is on the verge of winning the world title for Honda. Toby Moody explains why

Ducati: the Ferrari of the bike world. The passionate red, the quirky V-twins that win against the conventional four-cylinder Japanese plastic rockets, the bikes people put on walls of their uber-trendy Los Angeles apartments, the bikes that seem to stir something in people.

That is Ducati.

Ducati is brave with its designs, punches way above its weight on the street and on the racetrack. It supplies as many bikes as Honda on the MotoGP grid and beat Honda hands down in the opening year of the 800cc era in 2007, despite straying away from conventional motorcycle design.

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