Pramac Ducati riders Scott Redding and Danilo Petrucci are halfway through a fight to race the same specification Ducati as factory pair Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso in MotoGP next year.The satellite outfit currently runs year-old GP15s for both riders but has been allocated a factory specification 2017 bike for...

Casey Stoner has resumed Ducati MotoGP test duties by joining this week's private running at Misano.The outing is Stoner's third since returning to Ducati, following an initial run on a 2015 bike at Sepang pre-season and then a rain-hampered first taste of the GP16 at Losail after the season-opening Qatar...

Casey Stoner and Ducati discussed the possibility of the Australian making his MotoGP comeback at the next race in Argentina as Danilo Petrucci's Pramac stand-in, before deciding against it.Petrucci will miss at least the next two grands prix having exacerbated a hand injury from a testing crash when he tried...

Casey Stoner has completed his first test of Ducati's 2016 MotoGP bike at Losail following the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix.The two-time world champion returned to the Italian manufacturer's ranks as a test rider at the start of this year, and rode its GP15 before and during the Sepang pre-season test...

Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone say they are content with Ducati's pre-season progress, despite a low-key start to 2016 MotoGP testing.Dual world champion and returning test rider Casey Stoner set the fastest time on a factory Ducati during the first test at Sepang, while the Avintia satellite squad led the...

Wayne Gardner says countryman Casey Stoner may face a "pretty hard call" over the prospect of making MotoGP appearances as a Ducati wild card this year.The dual world champion returns to Ducati in 2016 in a test and ambassadorial role, having spent the three seasons since his retirement as a...

The Ducati MotoGP team has lost a little confidence over recent grands prix, admits its general manager Gigi Dall'Igna.Still attempting to end a win drought stretching back to the 2010 Australian GP, Ducati started 2015 strongly and had at least one rider on the podium in five of the first...

Ducati's 2015 MotoGP bike is "stronger and more competitive" than the machines with which Casey Stoner won 23 grands prix and a championship between 2007 and '10, reckons Andrea Dovizioso.Although Ducati's winless streak now stretches back to Stoner's 2010 Australian GP triumph, the restructured team topped the final pre-season test...

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...