Ducati: completion

Officials Ducati intend to announce that the next change in the composition of the factory team MotoGP - for as yet unofficial information Cal Crutchlow has signed a two-year contract.

It has been a lot of speculation about the team, which will play in next year's British driver, especially after the contract has not been renewed between Ducati and Nicky Hayden for 2014. We Crutchlow was a chance to get into the Italian team at the end of last season, but the managers of the Bologna cooperation is not suggested that he and his team-mate Tech 3, Andrea Dovizioso. So if the rumors are true, former teammates reunite again.

It should be noted that the pilots of Tech 3 Yamaha, one of which is up to date and Crutchlow, won this year more places on the podium, rather than the factory team riders Ducati. Crutchlow finished faster both pilots in all nine Ducati Moto GP races this season, except for the stage at the Circuit de Catalunya racetrack, where his motorcycle crash occurred.

However, if the Desmosedici RR will not be seriously modified, in the case of the above-mentioned contract signing Cal will repeat the fate of Valentino Rossi, nine-time winner of the "big prizes", because not once has become the first on the Ducati.

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Desmosedici - Goodbye

Nicky Hayden will not play for the factory Ducati team in MotoGP in 2014. The athlete was with Ducati five years, but he was not offered a contract extension for the season of 2014.

Officials from Bologna argue that it is still interested in working with the world champion in 2006, and will be offered new terms - may be replaced by Nicky Desmosedici on the 1199R Panigale and will compete for prizes in WSBK.

The best result racer in 2013 after five stages - the fifth result on the track at Le Mans. During the five years of collaboration with the Italians the best result, which he managed to achieve - the third step of the podium. His team-mate Andrea Dovizioso, who finished third in the regular time of play for the team Tech 3 Yamaha, after moving to Ducati could not get anything more than the fourth result.

The most likely replacement Hayden is Cal Crutchlow, but his collaboration with the team remains in doubt, in the light of proposals and contracts last year.

In an interview in June of this year, Nicky Hayden said: "I love the team and I like the Ducati, I think they're on the right track and always will be the first, and I would still be with them when it happens. My plan is simple - stay in MotoGP ».

However, over the past weekend at the Sachsenring track Hayden said: "I ​​have contacts with some teams WSBK, and I'm concerned with a proposal. Of course, I would prefer to stay in MotoGP bike on the right and in the right team, but now the outlook is not too bright. I want to continue to engage in motorcycling, so I will have to appear, keep it up somewhere else. "

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