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Troy Bayliss on the Ducati Panigale
The international press launch of the new 1199 is being held in Abu Dhabi this week, and Australia's world Superbike champion is soaking up the funAbu Dhabi’s purpose-built F1 circuit, Yas Marina, is hosting this week’s international press launch of the all-new Panigale 1199, Ducati's flagship Superbike.
Undoubtedly we’ll start to hear some reports emanating out of Yas Marina very shortly, but we do know one bloke who appears to be having the time of his life – Australia’s three-time world Superbike champion Troy Bayliss,
Now retired but still under the employ of Ducati, Bayliss has undoubtedly been showing the assembled media throng the fast away around the 21-turn, 5.554km circuit, which is situated on a man-made island off the Abu Dhabi coast and cost nearly $1 billion to construct.
Catch the video of Bayliss in action below, along with the rumble of the 195hp (134kW) twin-cylinder Superquadro engine.
The base model Panigale will go on sale in Australia for $26,990 in April, 2012, with the S model $33,990 and flagship Tricolore S $39,990. The latter has a revised version of the Ducati Data Analyser system using GPS, electronic suspension, an eight-level traction control system, quickshifter, electronic engine braking control, three-way switchable engine modes as well as a thin film transistor full-colour instrument panel. Or the bike’s just “techno porn” as some people have labelled it...
There’s also an LED headlight – a first for a production motorcycle.
The Panigale will be on the Ducati stand at the 2011 Australian Motorcycle Expo on the Gold Coast from February 17-19.
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