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Ducati Qualifies 1st & 3rd at Pikes Peak

By Jensen Beeler 06/24/2010 5 Comments

Team Spider Grips Ducati has qualified 1st & 3rd at this year’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, as the team gets set to race a pair of slightly modified 2010 Ducati Multistrada 1200S motorcycles up the 5,000ft ascent near Colorado Springs.

Taking the pole position is Pikes Peak veteran Greg Tracy, with a qualifying time of 5:22:659. Tracy won the 2008 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on a “skunk works” Ducati Hyptermotard, and is the favorite to win this years’ 1200cc class in the motorcycle division.

Taking up the third position is Alexander Smith, who qualified with a time of 5:45:470, just one second behind the second place qualifying Buell.

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Racing

Up Pikes Peak with the Ducati Multistrada 1200

By Jensen Beeler 06/17/2010 4 Comments

What does racing to the clouds look like on a Ducati Multistrada? Well it looks a little bit like this if you’re Greg Tracy. At the helm of one of the , Tracy is looking in-form for the event after this practice session. Also spotted in the video is Team Spider Grips Ducati teammate Alexander Smith, who Tracy catches about a minute into the video.

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Up-Close With the Pikes Peak Multistrada 1200S

By Jensen Beeler 05/22/2010 6 Comments

We were lucky enough today to get some shots from an Asphalt & Rubber reader who was in attendance at the Newport Beach Ducati shop to check out the Pikes Peak Ducati Multistrada 1200S race bike. From what we can tell the race bike has a cropped windsceen, hand-guards, revamped tail section (no luggage racks needed!), and a killer paint job. The overall affect is pretty dramatic, and makes the Multistrada 1200S look like a real speed demon. Ducati North America, can you say race replica? Thanks for the photos John!

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Ducati Multistrada 1200S to Race at Pikes Peak

By Jensen Beeler 05/21/2010 7 Comments

In what we assume is an effort to draw Ducati’s racing heritage onto their new sport-tourer, the 2010 Ducati Multistrada 1200, Ducati has announced that it will run a pair of the new Multistrada’s at the 2010 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Ducati is looking to reclaim its 1200cc-class victory from 2008, where the company secretly used a prototype Hypermotard 1100 (what later became the 2010 Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO), in what the company calls a “skunk works” mission. In order to secure victory, Ducati has partnered with Ducati of Newport Beach and Spider Grips of Southern California, the same people behind the 2008 winning team. More after the jump.

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Bikes

BMW HP2 Megamoto: Pikes Peak Edition for Japan

By Jensen Beeler 05/08/2009 1 Comment

BMW is making a limited edition version of the HP2 Megamoto that was raced at last year’s Pikes Peak hill climb event. Unfortunatly, the Pikes Peak edition HP2 Megamoto will only be available in the Japanese market, and while a considered a “replica” of the Megamoto which BMW Motorrad / BMW USA Sierra raced at the Pikes Peak, it will mimic the race bike in form only. Read: the replica will will feature a race-replica paintjob and stickers, but will remain stock mechanically. Cue hisses and booos.

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