A Season Full of Success for the Y1K
Ducati Women's Motorcycle Racing Team
After two
successful years on the national and international
circuits with riders
Paola Cazzola and
Chiara Valentini, the Official Ducati Women’s Team
is preparing to continue its tradition of excellent
riding and high technical standards that fans have come
to expect.
The 2007 Official Women’s Team will have two new
riders:
Letizia Marchetti, one of the few riders who were
able to keep up with Paola Cazzola last season, and
Nina
Prinz, the tough and talented German rider, who was
already a national champion at only 17.
Letizia Marchetti - Italian champion in the
2005 600 Super Stock category and 3rd place overall in
the 2006 Over 1000 category. This 28-year-old from
Civita Castellana (VT) got her University degree in
Economics. She is also an aerobics teacher and
winner of "the best lap time" last season on the Magione
race track.
Nina Prinz began to race when she was only 13.
Despite her young age, she immediately demonstrated
great skills and since then she has ridden extremely
fast on all race tracks and has competed in male
dominated races, distinguishing herself for her courage,
her perseverance and her strong character.
Prinz raced in the German national Supersport
Championship from 2002 - 2005, and in 2006 she raced in
both the German Superbike Championship and the European
Championship.
These two riders will participate in the Super Stock
1000 category as the stars of the 2007 Ducati Women’s
Team. With their new 1098 S Superbikes, these women will
compete to be the first to cross the finish line and to
add new prestigious victories to the Ducati successes of
past seasons.
The Ducati Women' s Team would not be complete
without
Romana Fede. After a great season last year in the
Debut category, in 2007 Fede will compete in the Super
Stock 600 category on her Ducati 749R. Paola
Artioli, a rider discovered during the riding classes
organized by Ducati (DRE - Ducati Riding Experience),
will take Fede’s place in the Debut category.
Race Success
After two years of great success achieved on
international circuits, the 2007 Y2K Ducati Women’s Team
is proving that they have all their cards in order to
best represent themselves in the riveting European
Women’s Championship.
After a start to the season with many tests and some
difficulty to get the right measurements on the new
1098s, the riders of Y2K Ducati’s Women’s Team have
begun to rack up pole positions and victories
confirming, once again, the speed of the newest
Superbike from the company of Borgo Panigale.
In May,
Nina Prinz dominated the first European race in
Vallelunga, leaving her mark on the track’s female
record, pole position (with the incredible time of
1.43.00) and victory with incredible distances ahead of
the other competitors.
The best results of the women’s
team kept coming one after another until arriving at
last Sunday’s victory at Assen in Holland where not even
the strange weather could stop the German who proved
that she is the fastest rider, whether the track is wet
or dry.
The Y2K Ducati Women’s Team is now getting itself ready
to face the last race of the European Women’s
Championship on August 11th in Oschersleben with the
German Nina Prinz in first place with full points in the
Superstock 1000 class.
In the 600 class, there is also a good possibility for
another Ducati rider, Romana Fede, with her 749R, who is
only 13 points from the top.
The Italian champion, Letizia Marchetti, is also doing
very well at three races from the end and only a handful
of points from the top while Romana Fede with her 749R
is first in the Superstock 600 class. A summer full of
challenges is forecast for the riders of the Y2K Ducati
Women’s Team.
Nina Prinz, Y2K Ducati Women's Racing Team
Nina Prinz and Letizia Marchetti - Ducati Women's
Motorcycle Racing Team
YouTube Video: Ducati Women's Racing Team On-Track
Action
Next Races
August 11th: Oschersleben (Germany)
August 26th: Mugello (Italy)
Italian Female Motorcycle Racing Championship
The Y2K Ducati Women’s Team participates in both the
Italian Female Championship as well as the European
Female Championship with Nina Prinz, Letizia Marchetti
and Paola Arioli who race in the Superstock 1000
category and with Romana Fede who races in the
Superstock 600 category.
Y2K Ducati
Women’s Team takes Europe with Nina Prinz
Nina Prinz, the official Ducati rider, won the last race
of the European Women’s Championship, earning her the
title of European Champion in the Superstock 1000
Category.
Under the pouring rain, Nina had no rivals and kept a
distance of 30 seconds ahead of her closest follower,
Paola Cazzola, while Samuela De Nardi took third.
Prior
to this race, Prinz also had the best time of the day
for the qualifying sessions. This is the first
championship victory for the new bike from Borgo
Panigale, the Ducati 1098s.
In the 600 Category, after an unlucky season, Romana
Fede, on her 749R, managed to take the well-deserved
absolute second place behind the unstoppable Iris Ten
Katen who was at ease on one of the circuits that she
best knows.
This is the third European title in two years for Ducati
and a victory that proves the competitiveness of the
1098s.
With the European Championship over, the next
races for the Ducati Women’s Team will be on September
9th in Vallelunga and October 10th in Misano for the
last two races of the Italian Women’s Championship.
The
Y2K Ducati Women’s Team will be represented once again
by Nina Prinz and Letizia Marchetti in the Superstock
1000 class and Romana Fede in the Superstock 600 class.
