Ducati will loan its factory MotoGP test rider Michele Pirro to satellite team Avintia to replace the injured Loris Baz for the Catalunya Grand Prix at Barcelona next weekend.Baz sustained a broken right foot in a first-corner crash with Alvaro Bautista and Jack Miller in the last race at Mugello.He...

Ducati expects to fight for MotoGP wins in 2015 even though its new bike will hit the track several months after rivals' machines.While Honda and Yamaha's 2015 machines first ran during last year's summer tests, the new-spec Ducati will not appear until the Sepang test in February. But the make's...