Ducati..Whats happening..

[Gerrard]

It seems all quite on the Ducati front so does anybody know whats going on in 2010.
Is David Tardotzi still there is Fabrizio still going to ride for Ducati next year...
Anyone know? :dunno:

 

[KUCIAR666]

here you got latest news from official Ducati web site:

Monday Nov 09 2009PRESS RELEASE
DAVIDE TARDOZZI LEAVES DUCATI. A CHANGE AT THE TOP FOR THE DUCATI XEROX TEAM

Borgo Panigale (Bologna, Italy), 9 November 2009 - Davide Tardozzi, SBK project manager, leaves the historic Bologna-based company to seek new professional challenges.

Ducati, at the end of the 2009 Superbike season, and thanks to this year?s World Manufacturers Championship win, has amassed 16 such titles in this category. An important and significant accomplishment, in which Tardozzi?s role has been fundamental. In Ducati since 1999, first as Team Manager and more recently, since 2007, as the SBK project manager, Tardozzi leaves the company having grown professionally and having contributing greatly to the success of the Italian firm.

?Davide has been part of Ducati?s recent history?, commented Claudio Domenicali, General Director of Ducati, ?a friend and, at the same time, an important presence that has allowed Ducati to achieve significant successes, particularly in the World Superbike Championship where, in recent years, he has project managed with passion, competence and professionalism. We are sorry to announce that Davide will not be part of the 2010 team but, at the same time, we wish him our very best wishes for the new challenges that await him, and thank him for the many years of service during which we have won and lost together.

In the Ducati Xerox Team, Ernesto Marinelli, currently technical director of the squad, will take over Davide?s role as SBK project manager.

Fabrizio and Haga are still in SBK .....

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2010
Although the curtain has only recently closed on the 2009 World Superbike Championship, the Ducati Xerox Team is already looking ahead and making preparations for the 2010 racing season.

Some key elements will remain the same, first and foremost, the riders. Both Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio, second and third respectively in the 2009 rider standings, will be back on board for the coming season and are hungry to improve on this year?s results. Title sponsorship also remains unchanged, Ducati?s agreement with Xerox in place until 2011.

Yet there are also changes for the Ducati Xerox Team in 2010, the biggest of which is the appointment of a new Project Manager in the shape of Ernesto Marinelli, previously Technical Director of the team as well as Noriyuki?s race engineer. Now that Davide Tardozzi has moved on in search of new professional challenges, it is Marinelli who is entrusted with the task of steering the team in the right direction. There is also a change to the team logo, in line with the launch of the new Ducati Corse logo in November.

In 2009, Noriyuki Haga, riding with the Ducati Xerox Team for the first time, was successful right from the offset, with an immediate win on board his Ducati 1198 in the opening race of the season at Phillip Island. This victory was followed by seven further race wins, including double wins at Valencia and Kyalami, and a total of nineteen podiums scored throughout the season. Haga?s win at the penultimate round of Magny-Cours awarded the Ducati factory squad its sixteenth Manufacturers title in this championship. The fight for the riders title however went to the wire, with Noriyuki just ten points ahead of second placed rider Spies (Yamaha) before the final round of Portimao. The spectators were treated to two spectacular races in Portugal, the first of which was won by Spies and the second by Fabrizio, with Noriyuki crashing out of race 1 and finishing second in race 2, to lose out on the 2009 World Superbike riders title by just six points to Yamaha?s Spies.

At the end of his second season with the Ducati Xerox Team, Michel Fabrizio closed the championship in third position overall, with 382 points, having achieved three race wins at Monza, Imola and Portimao and a total of 15 podiums during the year.

In the Superstock 1000 class, the Ducati Xerox Junior Team celebrated winning both the constructors and riders titles for the third consecutive year, this time with the young Belgian rider Xavier Simeon on board the Ducati 1198. Of the ten races held, Simeon won five and finished second in five, the best set of results ever recorded in the Superstock 1000 category, and a fitting end to the Ducati Xerox Junior Team?s four-year history.

Despite a worldwide economic crisis, the majority of the Superbike teams have already confirmed their rider line-up for the 2010 season, and with ?new?, or returning, entries that include Chris Vermeulen, Cal Crutchlow, James Toseland and Sylvain Guintoli, the World Superbike Championship is guaranteed to be yet another nail-biter. Winter testing resumes in January, before the championship gets underway at Phillip Island on 28th February. Keep updated by following the progress of the Ducati Xerox Team here at Ducati.com!

Saturday Nov 14 2009Riders at EICMA

THE DUCATI XEROX RIDERS VISIT MILAN?S EICMA SHOW


Milan (Italy), Saturday 14th November: the 2009 World Superbike Championship may be over but this does not mean that the work for Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio has finished! This week the Ducati Xerox riders have been kept busy with appearances at the 67th edition of the EICMA International Motorcycle Exhibition in Milano.

On Thursday Michel traveled up from Rome and headed straight to the Ducati stand, taking the opportunity to get a good look at the new Multistrada 1200 as well as the never before seen ?Special Edition? Superbikes with original livery in celebration of the new Ducati Corse logo. Michel was impressed by both bikes, and then checked out the new Hypermotard 1100 evo SP, declaring it his favourite bike on the stand.

He also paid a visit to the exhibition areas of sponsors Regina and Suomy, where he met with fans and signed countless autographs, before stepping up on stage to be interviewed live by two Italian radio stations, Radio Deejay and Virgin Radio, broadcasting live from the Ducati stand for the show?s duration.

The following day it was Noriyuki?s turn and, after signing autographs for the many fans that awaited him, he too checked out Ducati?s extensive exhibition and was particularly impressed by the Multistrada 1200 and, predictably, by the new ?Corse? livery of the 1198S and 1198R. He also fitted in an appearance on the MotoLive stage and several interviews for Virgin Radio, Radio Deejay and the printed press.

Both Noriyuki and Michel will now make the most of several weeks away from the racetrack, before winter testing recommences in January at Portimao.

 

[Gerrard]

Thanks Kuciar..
So I wonder if team orders will come into play next season?..interesting

 

[KUCIAR666]

so now DAVIDE TARDOZZI will be working for BMW .......


and

THE DUCATI XEROX TEAM DEFINES ITS NEW STRUCTURE FOR THE 2010 SBK SEASON



Bologna (Italy), Thursday 7th January 2010: just a few days before the 2010 Superbike season officially gets going with testing at Portimao from 22nd January, the Ducati Xerox Team confirms that it has undergone some significant internal reorganization.

With Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio both back on board their Ducati 1198s for 2010, a series of structural changes within Ducati have allowed for a certain degree of reorganization within the Ducati Xerox team.

Ernesto Marinelli is the newly appointed Ducati Xerox Team manager, and so stepping into Marinelli?s shoes as technical manager of the squad is Marco Lozej who will also have the role of track engineer for Michel Fabrizio. With Ducati since 2000, Marco has most recently been responsible for the GP development team.

Japanese rider Haga also has a new track engineer in the shape of Luca Ferraccioli, who returns to the Borgo-Panigale factory after a four year stint as race engineer with the British GSE Racing outfit. Working alongside Luca, in the role of electronics engineer to Noriyuki, will be Marco Frigerio who moves from the factory MotoGP team to the Superbike side for the coming season. The final change on Haga?s side is the appointment of a new tyre technician, Massimo Meneghin.

The final addition to the ?new-look? team is Una Conway, Irish and in Italy for more than a decade, who comes on board as Team Coordinator and Hospitality Assistant.

?2010 will be a little different but I am extremely confident as well as optimistic?, commented Ernesto Marinelli, the Ducati Xerox Team Manager. ?Despite the important reorganization within the team, in reality most of the new members have already been working in Ducati for some time. Both Marco Lozej and Luca Ferraccioli have worked in Ducati for years and have a wealth of experience as well as great technical ability and personality. 2010 once again represents a new challenge - we have faced many over the years and in most cases we have come out victorious. We will be doing our very best to take another title this year; our riders are in great shape and the entire team is more motivated than ever. We?re all impatient to get back on track and are looking forward to the Portimao test.?

Ducati Xerox Team 2010
DUCATI XEROX TEAM 2010

Riders:

Noriyuki Haga (# 41)
Michel Fabrizio (# 84)



Team Manager: Ernesto Marinelli
Technical Manager: Marco Lozej
Press Officer: Heather Watson
Sponsor Account Manager: Mauro Grassilli
Team Coordinator/Hospitality Assistant: Una Conway


Haga Crew

Track Engineer: Luca Ferraccioli
Electronics Engineer: Marco Frigerio
Chief Mechanic: Alberto Colombo
Mechanics: Roberto Banci, Michele Bubbolini, Stefano Favalini
Tyre technician: Massimo Meneghin


Fabrizio Crew

Track Engineer: Marco Lozej
Electronics Engineer: Luca Minelli
Chief Mechanic: Marco Ventura
Mechanics: Andrea Neri, Claudio Montanari, Davide Gibertini
Tyre technician: Moris Grassi


Engine Building Engineer: Benedetto Sciannimanico
Chief Engine Builder: Karl Putz
Engine Builder: Francisco Prieto
Spare Parts & Components: Andrea Baravelli
Truck Driver: Giuseppe Morielli
Logistics: Manuela Barbieri


?hlins Technician: Byron Draper
Pirelli Technician: Alessandro Monzani
Brembo Technician: Franco Zonnedda

 

[KUCIAR666]

And official press release about Tardozzi....

BMW Motorrad Motorsport and Davide Tardozzi reach agreement.


Munich/Stephanskirchen, 07January 2010. BMW Motorrad Motorsport is restructuring its team management in the Superbike World Championship. Davide Tardozzi (50) has been appointed to a senior position at Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport with immediate effect. The Italian will head up team management and operational control at the race tracks in the Superbike World Championship.

Up to now, Rainer Bäumel (43) has been responsible for engineering, team management and team organisation in his capacity as BMW Motorrad Motorsport Project Manager in the Superbike World Championship. Bäumel will continue as Head of Project Management and Project Management Engineering.

The collaboration between BMW Motorrad Motorsport and Tardozzi is part of a package of measures aimed at optimising the competitiveness of BMW Motorrad Motorsport in the Superbike World Championship. In his role as Team Manager, Tardozzi will look after the operational management of the team at races and tests, act as an interface between the team and the promoters and organisers of the Superbike World Championship, and provide a link to suppliers.

“I am delighted finally to be able to announce our partnership with Davide Tardozzi,” said BMW Motorrad Motorsport Director Berthold Hauser. “The new structure ensures that the team will be well set up for the future. Team management and team organisation are important areas in which we can see further potential for improvement. The key here is to approach every situation in a structured and target-led way. This applies to both general processes and tactical decisions with a direct influence over performance. With his many years of experience in the sport, Davide will play a decisive role here. At the same time, the restructuring will allow Rainer Bäumel to fully focus on the core areas of overall project management and engineering.”

Tardozzi said: “I imagine a lot of people will be surprised to hear of my decision to join BMW. However, for me the decision was simple. I had offers from MotoGP, but my heart is in the Superbike World Championship and I feel at home here. BMW Motorrad Motorsport is a young and hungry team, and that gives me the challenge I have been looking for. I’m looking forward to working behind the scenes to the benefit of the team. I know that I can fulfil this role at BMW. Of course, already knowing our riders Troy and Ruben well makes my job easier. 2010 will be a tough year, as there are many good riders and teams in the Superbike World Championship. Nevertheless, I firmly believe that BMW can take a big step forward over the coming year.”

Tardozzi rode in motorcycle races himself from 1984 to 1992. In his first two seasons he competed in the 250 cc World Championship and later moved to the Superbike class. He finished third in the 1988 Superbike World Championship after racking up five race wins, and in 1991 he secured the European Superbike Championship title. Tardozzi has remained involved – and continued to enjoy success – in motorcycle racing since bringing the curtain down on his career as a rider. Since 1995, as a team principal, he has won a total of nine manufacturers’ titles and eight riders’ titles in the Superbike World Championship.

 

[Gerrard]

Its nice not to see Tardozzi walk away...good for him :bow: