Finally released from his contractual obligations with Yamaha, Valentino Rossi can officially begin his duties working for Ducati Corse this week, and Ducati has already capitalized on the moment by showing off Rossi’s new leathers to great fanfare. Now the pièce de résistance and the end to our torment, Ducati has finally debuted the Ducati Desmosedici GP11 at the 2011 Wrooom media event, a joint launch event between Ferrari and Ducati held in the Dolomite Mountains.

Is there something wrong with the color of those pics? The bike looks like its a neon, safety, glowing, red on my computer.

DERBY

http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=45573.0

and no...nothing is wrong with the color of the pics...it is flourescent red...

did they do that color just to match his fugly suit? 

I LIKE IT!!!

Then again, I have no sense of style...

Quote from: ahks on January 13, 2011, 10:24:04 AM
did they do that color just to match his fugly suit? 

Yep.

That's it.

i thought i read somewhere years ago the reason that they made the f1 cars the orginal dayglow orange was that they knew that on tv and in pictures the orange color would actually because of developing and such, that it would then show up as the darker marlboro red.  whereas if they used the marlboro red on the cars in real life, then in pictures and such the color would then be too dark of a red.

Interesting.

you think BMW riders will be confused and wave? 

Who is TIM ? 

Quote from: TAftonomos on January 13, 2011, 02:09:59 PM
Who is TIM ? 

TIM is a Bacon manufacturer!!!!!

I believe TIM is a big Italian phone/communication company. Or maybe it's some Ducati and GP loving rich guy named Tim!!

Quote from: muskrat on January 13, 2011, 01:38:34 PM
you think BMW riders will be confused and wave? 

Quote from: sbrguy on January 13, 2011, 12:01:02 PM
i thought i read somewhere years ago the reason that they made the f1 cars the orginal dayglow orange was that they knew that on tv and in pictures the orange color would actually because of developing and such, that it would then show up as the darker marlboro red.  whereas if they used the marlboro red on the cars in real life, then in pictures and such the color would then be too dark of a red.

that wasn't the reason for the dayglow, but the scuderia did change the color a few years ago so that it's appear "more red" on tv.