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The Moriwaki-Althea Honda team are not in testing action at Jerez while no times were recorded for the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team. 1. Alex Lowes GBR Pata Yamaha 1m 40.442s 77 laps

Eugene Laverty will make his test debut with Team Go Eleven and the new Ducati V4 R at Jerez this week as he looks to gauge “the potential of the bike” before making 2019 World Superbike championship targets.

Andrea Dovizioso has conceded a more harmonious spirit inside the Ducati garage will not be enough to fight for the MotoGP world title, but is sure new team-mate Danilo Petrucci’s arrival to the official team has contributed to a “better feeling.”

Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali says “there is no plan” from Audi to sell the Italian manufacturer having given a show of strength with the German brand’s logos appearing on the team’s MotoGP livery for the first time.

With Ducati being the first MotoGP team to present its 2019 line-up it created a platform to send out a statement of intent and a few warnings to its rivals.

Dani Pedrosa talks about life after retiring from MotoGP, future ambitions and battling his latest injury ahead of stem cell surgery ( Marca )

Jorge Lorenzo will undergo surgery on a fractured left scaphoid in his wrist, two days before the Repsol Honda MotoGP team launch after suffering the injury while training in Italy.

During the 2014 season, MotoGP development was broadly grouped into three areas - engine, chassis and electronics. But the appearance of winglets on the front of the Ducati during 2015 pre-season testing kicked off a 'fourth dimension' of performance; aerodynamics.

New Repsol Honda rider Jorge Lorenzo has been taken to hospital in Verona suffering with hand pains and has undergone checks on a potential scaphoid injury.

Andrea Dovizioso believes the biggest lesson learnt from his 2018 MotoGP campaign was improving Ducati’s base package but underlines key points on mid-corner performance which he fears the Italian manufacturer still trails its rivals.

Gigi Dall’Igna has confirmed Ducati will attack the 2019 MotoGP world championship with two riders working together rather than “two riders who think independently” as the Italian targets the teams’ first titles since 2007.

Beating your team-mate is the first rule in MotoGP - like any motorsport - and has seen riders go to extreme lengths to keep the secrets of their success away from the other side of the garage. Not so in the case of Andrea Dovizioso and new team-mate Danilo Petrucci.

Ducati Corse CEO Claudio Domenicali says Jorge Lorenzo’s two-year stay at the Italian team was worthwhile in investment and development despite a premature split.

Ducati became the first MotoGP team to officially launch its 2019 campaign when Andrea Dovizioso and new signing Danilo Petrucci unveiled the Desmosedici GP19 livery during a ceremony at the Philip Morris R&D Cube in Neuchâtel, Switzerland this evening.

As the only factory MotoGP rider with a one-year contract, Danilo Petrucci knows he won't have time to "relax" at the official Ducati Team. It's also "no secret" that Pramac young guns Jack Miller and Francesco 'Pecco' Bagnaia have their sights set on his factory seat for 2020.

Andrea Dovizioso goes into 2019 with “more confidence” than previous campaigns, and “really” believes he and Ducati will be in the MotoGP championship mix after a positive end to the last calendar year.

Danilo Petrucci has acknowledged he and new team-mate Andrea Dovizioso enter the 2019 season with different goals, stating “we need each other to reach them” as he prepares for his first season as a factory rider in the MotoGP class.

Crash.net is in Switzerland for this evening's 2019 Ducati MotoGP team launch, being held at the Philip Morris R&D Cube in Neuchâtel, where Andrea Dovizioso and new signing Danilo Petrucci will be taking the wraps off the new GP19.

The provisional entry list for the 2019 BSB campaign. 2019 BSB grid so far: JG Speedfit Kawasaki Glenn Irwin Ben Currie

2019 promises to be a big year for Jack Miller. Having a season at Ducati under his belt, the Australian will attack the new season aboard a GP19, a similar spec to the factory riders.

With pre-season testing preparations being finalised and targets being drawn up for the 2019 MotoGP world championship, Crash.net looks over what key objectives each manufacturer will be desperate to get right.

A new dawn beckons for Scott Redding in 2019. An eleven-year stint in the grand prix paddock came to an end last November at a murky Valencia. But rather than longing for the past, the Englishman was upbeat, and already looking ahead to the challenges ahead.

Valencia - not only the scene of the year’s final grand prix, but a place that offers scope for reflection. There a long, arduous season grinds to a close. And as it does, performances, strategies and relationships from the 18 previous rounds can be judged with some distinction.

The provisional 2019 World Superbike entry list has been officially published with an 18-rider line-up set to make up the grid.