1000 Ducati Podiums - Celebrate with Ducati Manchester

The Panigale V4 R scores the 1000th podium for Ducati in World Superbike at the 2022 Czech Round, thanks to Alvaro Bautista. The 1000-podium mark achieved by Ducati in WorldSBK represents a unique result, never achieved by any manufacturer in any motorcycle discipline. #1000DucatiPodiums

THE 916 AND THE LEGEND OF FOGARTY
Carl Fogarty contributed to many of these podiums on his way to achieving 4 world titles with Ducati.

Foggy acheived 55 wins making him Ducati's most successful superbike rider.

In October 1993, Ducati left everyone speechless when it presented the 916, a bike capable of tracing a groove separating "before" from "after". The 916 was lean, nimble, powerful, with lines and solutions drawn by Massimo Tamburini – also known as "Maestro" - still current today in their synthesis of beauty and effectiveness according to the concept of form-follows-function whose descendants are recognizable in the Panigale. With a completely revised chassis and highly-evolved Desmoquattro twin-cylinder, the 916 dominated all the formulas in which it raced.

As the years went by, the displacement increased. In 1998 Ducati launched the 996, the name with which an epochal model such as the 996 R made its debut in 2001, powered by the first 998 cc Testastretta whose heirs can still be found today in the twin-cylinder models of the Ducati range. In 2002 the 996 gave way to the 998. In its standard version, the Ducati superbike went from 114 horsepower of the first 916 to 123 of the 998.

The Ducati 916 is the most successful of the Ducati SBKs and between 1994 and 2003, with its 916, 996 and 998 versions, it won eight world titles (including four with "King" Carl Fogarty), 122 races and it took its riders to the podium on 311 occasions. And the 996 R is the model with which the career in red of Troy Bayliss, the other great Ducati Superbike legend, began.

In the past 10 years, the Panigale family has scored 70 victories with Davies, Melandri, Bautista, Redding and Rinaldi, and 219 podiums for Ducati.

In his time at Ducati, Carl Fogarty became a legend for them, as well as a sporting legend in the United Kingdom and Italy. Four WorldSBK titles in six seasons all came with Ducati and despite switching to Honda in 1996 and then moving back to Ducati in 1997, ‘Foggy’ soon reclaimed the title in an epic 1998 season before going on to dominate in 1999. However, his special memories come from his first title in 1994 as well as his famous – and unmatched – two British doubles in 1995. In his tenure, Fogarty took some 100 Ducati podiums and 55 wins.

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