Welcome to Ducati Cup 2008!
Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada the Ducati Cup is now in its second year and offers an exciting, competitive and fun racing series brought to you in conjunction with the Calgary Motorcycle Road Racing Association, Sport Cycle, Ducati North America, and Importations Thibault.
The goal of this website is to give riders and interested parties a look at the class, the participants and the results as the 2008 race season progresses.
Ducati Cup gets up to speed for Round 3!
Round 3 of the CMRA Ducati Cup was a quick one with several racers setting new personal best lap times around the 2.1mile road course at Race City Motorsports Park.
At the flag drop, Ryan Taylor, Rupert Collins, Amy Karthaus and Rob Porter blasted away from the field of 13 bikes. Ryan Taylor got the hole shot where he led the race for 2 laps before being passed by Rob Porter.
Ryan Taylor remained strong in second place with Rupert Collins settling into a solid 3rd.
Amy Karthaus seemed to be struggling with her Revoluzione/Majik 848 as she lost ground steadily being passed first by Yukiya Ishiguro, then Derek Sandilands and finally Kelly Gingras.
Behind Kelly Gingras were the 749’s of Don Bachek, and Chris Istace who were setting some blistering lap times trying to catch the main group.
On lap 7 Paul Slack who had been running a sold race, ran out of fuel and was forced to retire. On lap 8, Kelly Gingras experienced a shifter failure and was forced to circulate in only 3rd gear. Amy Karthaus, Chris Istace and Don Bachek all passed the wounded Duc for some added points.
Riding hard and setting some great lap times were a still injured Dave Dunbar, and novice riders Brad McDougall and Michael Sutherland.
At the checkered flag it was Robert Porter (33): 1st, Ryan Taylor (10) 2nd, Rupert Collins (27) 3rd.
New personal best times were set by Robert Porter (1:22:976), Rupert Collins (1:25:553), Yukiya Ishiguro (1:27:554), Chris Istace (1:27:638), Don Bachek (1:29:758) and Kelly Gingras (1:28:584).
Congrats to all the Ducati Cup riders!
Thanks to class sponsors Sport Cycle; prize sponsors Ducati North America and Importations Thibault. Camera systems provided by Reel Rydes Inc.
Full results can be found under Results
Full race video can be seen at Reel Rydes
Media Galleries Updated
Round 2 images courtesy of Chris Appelman have been uploaded to the new gallery on the media page.
Please feel to browse the images and remember to support the photographers that make us look so good!
Ducati Cup and Reel Rydes Team Up
Pres Release: June 24, 2008
The organizers of the Ducati Cup are pleased to announce that a partnership agreement has been reached with Calgary based Reel Rydes Inc.
Reel Rydes will be equipping various Ducati race bikes with on-board camera systems for the remainder of the Calgary Motorcycle Roadracing Association’s 2008 racing season (www.roadracing.org). This will allow fans and racer’s alike to watch and share in the racing action with the Ducati Cup racers.
Ducati Cup organizer Kelly Gingras said “This is a great step forward in our ability to promote the Ducati Cup as we look to expand the class to other racing series in the next few years. The high quality on-board camera systems give us the ability to put the fan right into the action with the riders just like you see in MotoGP and WSBK. We are really excited to be working with Reel Rydes.”
Reel Rydes’ Mike Le echoed Kelly’s thoughts: “We are so thrilled to be working with a group as passionate as the Ducati Cup racers and can't wait to see the progression of this great partnership.”
Ducati Cup is a grassroots racing class run with the Calgary Motorcycle Road racing Association. For details visit www.ducaticup.com.
Reel Rydes Inc. is an “Extreme Sports” camera equipment rental company offering on-board camera systems for motorcycles, snowmobiles and all other manner of extreme sports vehicle. You can visit Reel Rydes at www.reelrydes.com.
