Fainplast won the Powerboat P1 World Championship British Grand Prix on Sunday, handing a first win of the season for the Metamarine craft, which is piloted by Marco Pennesi, Luigi Bisceglia and Ernesto Ascani

The second edition of Formula ATA, which sees university students competing in two categories, building either single seater race cars (Formula SAE Italy) or ecological vehicles (Formula TECH), will be held next month at Balocco

The centre of London roared to the sound of two and four-wheeled racing machines as Ducati Corse and Ferrari linked up with their fuel and lubricant supplier Shell for a spectacular street display in front of a 20,000 crowd

Ducati North America and Ducati Corse have announced that their race-winning participation in the North American AMA Superbike Championship with a factory team will cease at the end of the 2006 season

The day after his superb win at Brno, Loris Capirossi made his debut on the new 800cc Ducati Desmosedici GP7, the bike that will be campaigned by the Italian factory team in the 2007 MotoGP World Championship

Ducati Marlboro Team rider Loris Capirossi rode a very remarkable race at Brno during the Czech Grand Prix today, leaving the rest of the MotoGP grid trailing in his wake as he claimed his second victory of 2006

O.S.G. Donzi, an Italian boat run by an Italian team and with an all-Italian crew stormed to victory in the Powerboat P1 Grand Prix of the Mediterranean and in doing so put themselves in contention in the title race

Ducati Corse ended a difficult MotoGP weekend at a searing-hot Laguna Seca with Loris Capirossi coming home eighth and team-mate Sete Gibernau in tenth in the US Grand Prix as temperatures nudged 40 degrees

Team Speedbuster are looking forward to the "home" Powerboat P1 Grand Prix in Gallipoli next weekend, having bounced superbly back with a win in Germany earlier this month after their boat sank in the previous race

Alongside the sheer wealth of modern machinery, the Goodwood Festival of Speed also displayed a fine selection of pioneer veteran racers, and two formidable Italian racing cars were at the centre of attention

Goodwood Festival of Speed Photo Gallery: Fiat S74 Grand Prix (1911)

Goodwood Festival of Speed Photo Gallery: Itala Grand Prix (1907)

Ducati Marlboro Team riders Loris Capirossi and Sete Gibernau were in the thick of the two leading battles during the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring on Sunday, the MotoGP riders eventually coming home fifth and eighth

One of the stars of the Goodwood Festival of Speed was the Grand Prix race winning Alfa Romeo 159 "Alfetta", the single-seater that powered Juan Manuel Fangio to the 1951 Formula 1 World Championship

The Ducati Desmosedici GP5 with which Loris Capirossi won last year's MotoGP Grand Prix of Malaysia will go to auction in Monterey during the weekend of the US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca

The Ducati will be in action at the Goodwood Festival of Speed: Randy Mamola will be giving rides on specially-adapted two-seat MotoGP Desmosedici GP6 while Superbike series leader Troy Bayliss will demonstrate the 999F06

Ducati Marlboro Team riders Loris Capirossi and Alex Hofmann rode to dogged ninth- and 13th-place finishes in the ninth round of the 2006 MotoGP World Championship at a warm and muggy Donington Park yesterday

Ducati Team riders Loris Capirossi and Alex Hofmann endured a difficult Dutch TT, Capirossi finishing 15th while suffering badly from recent injuries, Hofmann taking a 12th-place finish in his first race on the Desmosedici GP6

Ducati Marlboro Team riders Loris Capirossi and Sete Gibernau had a disastrous day at Catalunya yesterday with both men crashing out during a turn-one multiple pile-up in the MotoGP race

After dominating the Line Honours in shore race results in 2006 Giraglia Rolex Cup, New Zealand Super Maxi Alfa Romeo has led the way out of St Tropez in the main event, the 243 mile off shore race

Weather conditions in race two of Europe’s most glamorous regatta, the Giraglia Rolex Cup played into the hands of ‘Alfa Romeo’ the Super Maxi taking line honours win by nearly an hour and the handicap win in a rare double