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The Desmosedici GP5

The Desmosedici GP5
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The Desmosedici GP5 The most obvious changes to the GP5 are in the swinging arm area. The Desmosedici GP5 Capirossi and Checa
The 2005 team lines up to face the media Ducati MotoGP Team riders Loris Capirossi and Carlos Checa and Scuderia Ferrari team drivers Michael Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello and Luca Badoer meet up at Madonna di Campiglio, during the ‘Wroom’ F1 and MotoGP press meeting. Carlos Checa snowboarding during th VROOOM event Loris Capirossi during testing on the new bike
Bit big for a motorcycle racer? Yep, sure is - it's former basketball ace Michael Jordan getting his leg over the MotoGP machine. It happened in valencia last year but we couldn't help ourselves and had to run the pic.
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21 January, 2005 Ducati’s MotoGP season got under yesterday on the Grostè glacier (at an altitude of 2470 metres) as the Desmosedici GP5 appeared in its 2005 livery for the first time amidst the spectacular Dolomite mountains in northern Italy. “The bike that Loris Capirossi and Carlos Checa will race this season is the result of an evolution, not a revolution of the GP4” explained Ducati Corse CEO Claudio Domenicali yesterday during the press conference. "We learnt from the mistakes we made last year, when we arrived at the first Sepang tests with a completely different bike from the previous version and with no chance of turning back.

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