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2012 World Ducati Week culminates with record breaking attendance
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This year's World Ducati Week witnessed record-breaking participation of over 65,000 Ducati fans over the four days of carnival
Celebrated at the Misano circuit in Italy, the seventh edition of the World Ducati Week (WDW) held recently attracted Ducatisti from all around the world with a record breaking number of over 65,000 visitors showing up at the iconic race-track to join the annual Ducati festivity. Christened as The Planet of the Champions, the WDW2012 was held over four days starting on 21st June, 2012 and culminating on 24th June, 2012. Over the period, Ducati owners from all across the globe turned up for the WDW in large numbers out of which almost 30 percent participants came from foreign land.
In its seventh year, the event witnessed highest visitor count the WDW has ever had and the gala affair was a grand success with all the participants indulging in the joy of motorcycling. One of the biggest highlights of the WDW2012 was the Drag Race by Tudor event, wherein all the top Ducati racers straddled a Diavel for the drag races in a friendly yet stiff competition. It was the pair of Troy Bayliss and Valentino Rossi that made it to the top with the world superbike legend Bayliss defeating Rossi across the Misano straight in the drag race by mere 0.023 seconds astride the Ducati Diavel. Third place went to Nicky Hayden while Carlos Checa finished in fourth place. Other Ducati racers present at the do included Jakub Smrz, Sylvain Guintoli, Niccolò Canepa and Lorenzo Zanetti.
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