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European Supertwins: NCR Dominates the Ducati Speed Week July 27, 2007

Valter Bartolini dominated the classes by winning 3 races and while setting an overall track record of 1:57.49 which was 1.4 seconds faster than the previous record set by Andreas Meklau on his Suzuki GSXR 1000 Superbike. Bartolini won the Ducati Desmo Challenge and finished 5 seconds ahead of Ivano Pigliacelli on his Bimota DB5. Bartolini also won the European Supertwins Championship and finished ahead of Liverani on his NCR New Blue. Liverani had an impressive lap time of 2:02.4 on New Blue wich shows the potential of this new motorcycle.

The most interesting and competitive race was in the Open Class with motorcycles from Superbike, Supersprot and Superstock. With the strong running of the hand made NCR millona Factory, Bartolini entered the supreme class with the hope of doing well.

Amazingly, Bartolini won pole in the Open Class and then set out to match that result in the race. At the end of the second lap, Bartolini was in second position and on his way to attack Pellizzon on his Yamaha R1 Superstock.

On lap 3, Bartolini managed to take the lead and set the fastest lap of the weekend with a 1:57.4. After battling strong winds and lapped traffic, Valter Bartolini amazingly finished the race in first place while giving the spectators an exciting
race.

NCR would like to thank Bartolini, the NCR Corse team, the NCR racers and the fans for the great success and support.

Three victories by Bartolini, a second by Liverani, a fourth for Martini, a fifth for Tinti and a top ten for Castelli. That is five NCR bikes in the top ten.