Ducati Globetrotter 90°, the "torch" and the Multistrada 1200 Enduro return to Europe

Ducati Globetrotter 90° – The sixth stage of Globetrotter 90° has begun, the trip around the world with the Multistrada 1200 Enduro. Having concluded the journey from the deep south of the United States to New York by the Australian globetrotter Steve Fraser, the "torch" and the Ducati motorcycle returned to Europe, in Lisbon, and passed into the hands of the Englishman Hugo Wilson who will reach the island of Man.

The new globetrotter is 54 years old, editor of motorcycling magazines, has traveled the length and breadth of Europe and around the Mediterranean by motorbike. A writer and photographer, Wilson became passionate about two wheels at the age of 10. "When I saw my cousin's Ducati for the first time.” says the globetrotter. “It was love at first sight! And when I finally bought my first bike it was obviously a Red….a Ducati is forever". Hugo Wilson will make various stops, one more evocative than the other. He will visit, for example, Silverstone where the legendary champion Mike Hailwood in 1960 won two races on the same day and in two different classes, but always on a Ducati. The sixth globetrotter's next destination will be the city of Donington, in the UK, where the first ever World Superbike race was held on 3 April 1988, won by Marco Lucchinelli on the newly created 851 SBK. Finally, the final destination of the sixth stage of Globetrotter 90° will be the Isle of Man where Mike Hailwood's greatest victory took place, that of the Tourist Trophy on 2 June 1978 on the Ducati 900 SS TT IOM.

While waiting to follow the sixth stage of Globetrotter 90°, here is a summary of the previous one carried out by the Australian Steve Fraser. Fraser covered 4.200 kilometers and traveled for 17 days. He headed first to Cincinnati; then crossed the mountains of Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, from where he continued to Birmingham, Alabama. So he headed to Georgia, then Florida and the Daytona racetrack. For the Australian globetrotter, the emotion of being able to enter the track that saw two legendary Ducati victories was great: the one in 1959 with Franco Farnè riding the 125 Desmo VI, and the one in 1986 with Marco Lucchinelli on the Ducati 750 F1 in the “Battle of the twins”.

Next, Steve Fraser reached the southernmost tip of the country, the Key West Islands. And back north, to reach the mountains of North Carolina, challenging continuous hairpin bends and giving vent to the power of the Multistrada 1200 Enduro. Finally, Fraser went to Virginia and immediately afterwards to New Jersey and the town of Summit. Here, on January 25, 1924, a radio signal arrived from Europe. It had been launched from Bologna, by the twenty-one-year-old Adriano Cavalieri Ducati who thus created the first intercontinental short-wave transmission with a tiny device he built and which needed 100 watts, that of a light bulb, to cross half the planet. With this dutiful homage to a moment that changed history, the American stages of Globetrotter 90° concluded.