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A drag race between Loris Capirossi’s Ducati Desmosedici MotoGP racebike and an Italian Air Force F104 Starfighter, originally scheduled for November 16, has been postponed, according to Ducati.

The event was the idea of members of the 9th Fighter Wing of the Italian Air Force, who are reportedly big fans of Ducati. The race was to take place at the jet’s “home track,” the runways of the Italian air base Grazzanise, with a test and tune day on November 15 and electronically-monitored drag racing on November 16.

However, the race was postponed to a yet-to-be-announced date after a November 13 suicide truck bombing attack on an Italian Police compound in southern Iraq, in which 18 Italians were killed and approximately 80 people wounded.