Ducati appoints new MotoGP manager

"I'm going to fill a void, in the sense that a team manager role hasn't existed in Team Ducati before," says Vito,  I sense Livio Suppo might have summat to say about this were he not busy on Facebook changing his title to " Ducati MotoGP Project Director ".

 What has Livio done wrong to be dumped? He's created a half decent team that is better than all the other teams except Fiat Yamaha usually. His team have won a hatful of races & a dominant world championship and are consistently competitive apart from their team mate and they may well wipe the floor next season now that Casey is " stoked ". I'm liking Adriana's new look too. It's all a bit strange if you ask me.

Posted: 28/10/2009 at 18:10

Not really, Livio was allegedly "entertaining" Adriana for a while, which hasn't gone down too well with hubby.

If you believe the rumours that is

Posted: 28/10/2009 at 20:49

From what I've been able to put together from around the net, as well as what was said during the live feed from MotoGp (between the 250 and MotoGp races) is that Ducati want to bring Rossi into the fold for 2011.

Rossi passed over Ducati when he went to Yamaha because his and Suppos ideas on how a team should work didn't gel. Burgess went so far as to say that Suppo believes in building a bike that is taylored to one rider and to hell with the others, while Burgess/Rossi want to develop a bike that can be ridden by anyone, i.e. a functional bike vs a taylored for one bike. 

Whether or not Rossi will go to Ducati in 2011 is still up in the air, as his attitude towards yamaha has settled down a bit, but it is telling that when all this was going on at Ducati Rossi was saying "I'll be riding Yamaha thru 2010" when asked about a switch to Ducati. Sounds like a bit of press avoidance to me. 

Posted: 02/11/2009 at 19:56