Eight World Superbike Championships in a decade marked Ducati’s 888 and 916 production racers as ‘simply the best’ but it wasn’t always plain sailing for the Bologna bullets.
Giacomo Agostini – a legend and all-time most successful rider in Grand Prix history. Eight 500cc championships and seven 350cc championships: perhaps his astonishing record will never be surpassed?
In July 1987, Honda finally announced what many had heard already – that they had a new homologation machine for the forthcoming World Superbike Championship that would begin the following year, 1988.
Racing is clearly a matter of timing: it’s how the pecking order is worked out. But it also has a direct effect on whether a machine will be a success or not. The stars often need to align… They didn’t for the gorgeous Foggy Petronas FP1.
