Ducati Legends Past and Present Unite at Goodwood for the Brand’s 100th Anniversary

Ducati legends and current champions shared the same balcony at Goodwood House today, marking Ducati’s 100th anniversary at the Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard. Under the centenary theme “A Century Made of Seconds,” the Ducati legends gathering brought together generations of riders spanning the brand’s full racing history, from its 1926 origins in Bologna to the WorldSBK grid racing this weekend at Donington Park.

The Ducati Legends Who Took the Balcony

Thursday’s Goodwood House Balcony Moment assembled a genuinely rare lineup of Ducati legends: Carl Fogarty, Casey Stoner, Troy Bayliss, Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne, Josh Brookes, and Dario Marchetti. In partnership with WorldSBK, current Ducati Superbike stars traveled straight from Donington Park to join them — Nicolò Bulega and Iker Lecuona of Aruba.it Racing – Ducati, alongside Álvaro Bautista, Lorenzo Baldassarri, Tommy Bridewell, and Tarran Mackenzie — creating a single gathering spanning generations of Ducati competition.

Carl Fogarty, four-time World Superbike Champion aboard Ducati, called it “fantastic to be involved in the 100-year celebrations,” naming the 916 — the bike he rode to those titles — the most iconic Ducati ever built. Troy Bayliss got to relive a piece of his own history directly: he rode his 1998 GSE Ducati 996 once again at Goodwood, calling it “really nostalgic” and saying he “feel[s] at home in that seat.” Bayliss credited Ducati with giving him the chance to represent Australia globally and win three world championships.

The Ducati Collezione 100 Makes Its UK Debut

Goodwood also hosted the Ducati Collezione 100, the centenary collection first unveiled at Mugello MotoGP in May — ten numbered liveries, each limited to just 100 units worldwide, honoring specific Ducati racing victories and the bikes that produced them. On display at Goodwood was the Panigale V4 S 100, finished in graphics inspired by the Ducati that won the first-ever 200 Miglia di Imola in 1972 with Paul Smart and Bruno Spaggiari — a direct nod to Ducati’s British racing heritage, appropriately shown on British soil.

Ducati Global Marketing & Communication Director Patrizia Cianetti called the celebration “about more than motorcycles — emotion, performance, design and the people who make this story possible,” while WorldSBK Executive Director Gregorio Lavilla noted the timing was deliberate, using the Goodwood gathering to build momentum into this weekend’s championship round at Donington Park. A century of Ducati legends on one balcony, a title fight continuing 130 miles away by Sunday — the celebration and the competition are running in parallel, exactly as Ducati intended.

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