WSBK 2014: The Althea and Ducati team together again

The Italian team Althea Racing will field an 1199 Panigale in Evo configuration on the grid for the 2014 World Superbike. This bike will be ridden by Niccolo Canepa, second in the Superstock 1000 cup last year, riding a Ducati..

Titled in 2011 with Carlos Checa and the Ducati 1198, the Althea team had preferred the world champion, rather than an 1199 Panigale in development. A wise decision, a fortiori, since their colt Davide Giugliano finished 6th in the 2013 World Championship, far ahead of the Ducati riders….

For the 2014 season however, the team boss, Genesio Bevilacqua, has decided to bet on the Bologna Superbike … but in his Evo configuration. Or roughly speaking, a motorcycle equipped with a "Stock" engine and a "Superbike" chassis. !

"I am extremely happy to collaborate again with Ducati, a brand with which we have achieved excellent results that we want to repeat"Says the Italian big boss, who is clearly aiming for the first Evo" title "in World Superbike history.

For the Ducati factory, next year, the Althea team will act as the reference team in the Evo subclass. Davide Giugliano having been promoted to official Ducati rider (alongside Chaz Davies, read), Niccolo Canepa will take control of the machine prepared by the men of Bevilacqua.

"I am delighted to be part of this new project, it was very important for me to move to WSBK and I think Althea Racing is the ideal team to do so", rejoices the transalpine rider, loyal to Ducati for many years and flamboyant replacement of Checa at the end of last season (read in particular our).

"I’m also happy to stay with Ducati, my second family", points out the n ° 59, second in the Superstock 1000 cup last year at the controls of a Panigale prepared by the Barni team,"and it’s an honor to race with the team that won the Championship in 2011".

"We will need to do some testing before Phillip Island, to find a basic tuning on the Panigale", predicts the young but very experienced Canepa."However, I know this machine quite well, in its STK and WSBK versions, and the team is very experienced, so it shouldn’t take long to find a good dynamic.".

"I’m sure we can do great things together", concludes Niccolo who will find next year his two best enemies of the Superstock 1000: the double champion Sylvain Barrier on S1000RR and the double winner Jeremy Guarnoni on ZX-10R, also registered in the Evo category and …

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