Xaus/Hodgson - Corsa Garage Tour
World Superbike - Laguna Seca, 2003

Pix by: Steve Allen
7/12/03

I was fortunate to get a private tour of the Ducati Corsa pit garage set up for Rubin Xaus and Neil Hodgson arranged by Ducati North America along with a dozen other lucky ones.  Ducati NA organized a raffle for the museum participants to select one other individual - Greg Petersen won - but the guy wasn't to be found so we decided to draw again - this time Jim Viola picked Keith Hale......  Long story short, we managed to get Greg in with us.....  Click on the images below for larger pictures.  Others along for the event included:  John Porter [Dir or Marketing Ducati NA], Mark Duncan [Club Desmo], Paul from GP Motorcycles and some other folks I didn't know.  The tour was given by the Director of Press Relations for Ducati MH Mr Julian Thomas.  Mr Claudio Domenicali stopped by to say a few words as well [The main man at Ducati Corsa, he brought us the 999].  It was VERY kewl baby....
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