With the World Ducati Week 2014 promising to be an incredible show that no motorcycling enthusiast wouldn’t want to miss, the highlight has to be the WDW2014 Drag Race, a competition that involves Ducati riders.

The eighth edition of the huge Ducati gathering will host the Drag Race on two days, Friday 18 and Saturday 19 July, set to happen along the starting straight of the Misano racetrack, and this time the race is open to current Ducati competition riders as well as International living legends from the world of motorcycle racing who were in some way connected with the successful track record of the iconic brand.

Ready to compete for a win in the World Ducati Week 2014 Drag Race will be the entire Ducati MotoGP Team, featuring Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow, together with Ducati MotoGP Factory test rider Michele Pirro, Ducati Superbike Team riders Davide Giugliano and Chaz Davies, Ducati’s WSBK test rider Matteo Baiocco, the MotoGP Pramac Team with its official Ducati riders Andrea Iannone and Yonny Hernandez, the Althea Racing Team’s Niccolò Canepa, and Manuel Poggiali, who currently competes for the Barni Racing Team in the Italian Roadrace Championship (CIV). Also competing to win the Drag Race will be a line-up of famous names from the history of international motorcycling competitions and Ducati such as 2001-2006-2008 World Superbike Champion (and authentic idol for the Ducatisti) Troy Bayliss, 2011 World Superbike Champion (and Ducati brand Ambassador) Carlos Checa, much loved former official SBK riders Ruben Xaus and Régis Laconi, hall-of-fame SBK rider “Frankie” Chili, and finally the great Carl Fogarty, a motorcycling myth who has won more Superbike titles than anyone else.

Tickets and other details for World Ducati Week 2014 can be obtained from the http://wdw.ducati.com website.