We’ve had some winners recently that we’d love to share with you.
We had a raffle at the hurricane inflected Indy MotoGP race and the winner of the $100 in Ducati apparel is Doug Bright from Nashville Tennessee! Perhaps a Ducati Corse umbrella Doug?

Also, our MotoGP helmet contest rumbles on with the results in for the Misano episode. John Martin was the lucky winner of that one.

What MotoGP contest? This one:

Before each MotoGP event choose who you think will win the race. Deliver your prediction to our apparel manager by 3pm California time the day before the race by either visiting the shop and telling our Apparel Manager, or emailing your choice to apparel@proitalia.com. Winners of each weeks contest will be entered in a raffle for a weekly prize. Entries delivered AFTER 3pm California time the day before the race will not be accepted for that weekends event.

At the end of the season, the contestants who have correctly guessed the winner of at least one race are eligible to enter the final-race-of-the-season contest. Those eligible for the final race will enter by picking the entire field, first place to last place, with the winner having chosen the most exact result – one point for each correct rider/finishing position. The winner of the final race contest will win a MotoGP replica helmet of their choice. At this final contest all entrants must be in the store to be eligible to win the Grand Prize. Any ties in the final race will be chosen by a random drawing from a helmet. One entry/guess per person, per race. Weekly entries must contain a legit first and last name, postal and email address. Replica helmets subject to availability, for example, older Rossi designs are no longer available.

Monday Sep 15 2008
Bologna, Italy

NICKY HAYDEN TO JOIN CASEY STONER AT DUCATI MARLBORO TEAM

Ducati Corse hereby announces that Nicky Hayden will join its factory MotoGP team for 2009. The 27-year-old from Owensboro, Kentucky, will line up alongside Casey Stoner and will make his debut on the Desmosedici GP9 on the 27th October in a test immediately following the Valencia Grand Prix.

Hayden arrives at Ducati after six years in MotoGP with Honda, the highlight coming in 2006 when he was crowned World Champion. His aggressive riding style and amenable character have made him an extremely popular rider – both on the track and off it.

“We are really happy to have Nicky join us,” declared Claudio Domenicali, Ducati Corse CEO and Ducati Motor Holding Product Director. “We are certain that his never-say-die attitude, riding style and character will be great additions to our team in 2009. I would like to thank HRC for allowing Nicky to start testing our bike immediately after the Valencia Grand Prix. I would also like to thank Marco Melandri for his professionalism during a difficult year, which was below all our expectations. Unfortunately his feeling with the Desmosedici was never good enough to allow him to ride as well as he can. We wish him all the best for the future.”

1962 Gilera Walter Galleli

2002 Mike Hailwood Replica, Bill Dickerson (owner)

Julia La Palme

Julia La Palme (owner)

Julia La Palme

2001 Ducati 748S, Jason Ramdwar (owner)

1996 Ducati 916
left to right, Rick Nelson (Pro Italia), Justin Harrison (bike owner) and Bill Nation
Justin completed a rally from New York to Las Vegas aboard this Ducati. See details at www.rallyduc.com

Trodoro Galleli 72 Ducati 450 single with PI parts manager Nicole Widick and owner Bill Nation