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MV Agusta Returns to International Motorcycle Racing at the QBE Round of the Superbike World Championship at Phillip Island in February 21 -23

Iconic Italian motorcycle brand MV Agusta will make its official return to top-level international motorcycle competition next February when it lines up in the opening round of the 2014 Superbike World Championship at Victoria’s Phillip Island Grand Prix circuit.

The marque, which has a record 37 individual and 38 manufacturer grand prix titles to its credit, will be officially involved at world level with the Russian-based Yakhnich Motorsport Team. The outfit will run Italian Claudio Corti in world superbike with its F4 1000 RR, backed up by a two-pronged attack in world supersport with Jules Cluzel and Vladimir Leonov. Yakhnich Motorsport won the supersport title in 2013 with Sam Lowes at the helm, but he was on Yamaha machinery.

It has been more than 37 years since MV Agusta last won a world championship, courtesy of the great Giacomo Agostini at Germany’s Nurburgring circuit back in 1976.

Corti brings .a wealth of experience to the team, including a stint in the CRT class at MotoGP level.

“Once I got this proposal I had no doubt on what to choose. I am honoured to represent such a powerful brand like MV Agusta, which is officially back to racing to be a protagonist, and at the same time I feel a big responsibility on my shoulders,” said Corti. “We have a lot of work to do in our first WSBK but I’m ready to give my best and share my experience with the team, in order to reach together the highest goals.”

Ducati Unveils 2014 World Superbike Team

With just a few weeks to go before the start of the 2014 eni FIM Superbike World Championship at the Australian circuit of Phillip Island on 23 February, the Ducati Superbike Team has been officially presented to fans, enthusiasts and press in an exclusive live streaming event from the Ducati Auditorium in Borgo Panigale.

The 2014 season will see the return of Ducati (the winners of 31 world titles in World Superbike, composed of 17 Manufacturers and 14 Riders titles) in an official capacity to the World Superbike Championship. Ducati will also re-establish its collaboration with Feel Racing, the logistical and organisational structure based in Crespellano, in the province of Bologna, a relationship that was interrupted in 2010, the last year in which the Bologna-based manufacturer participated in the production-derived series as a factory team.

On stage to present the season’s plans and technical innovations were Claudio Domenicali (CEO Ducati Motor Holding), Luigi Dall’Igna (General Manager Ducati Corse), Paolo Ciabatti (Sporting Director Ducati Corse), Ernesto Marinelli (SBK Project Director) and Team Manager Serafino Foti. A clear and tangible sign of how important it is for Ducati to have its red machines return as frontrunners in the World Superbike championship.

Next to take to the stage were the two Ducati Superbike factory riders, 26-year old Welshman Chaz Davies and 24-year old Italian Davide Giugliano, on hand to unveil the 2014 version of the 1199 Panigale with its new racing livery that includes the team’s main sponsors TIM, Fiamm, Valsir and Diadora.

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