Regional winners become part of the legendary Barber Museum Cupertino, CA After five months of guerilla warfare, the dozen winners of regional Monster Challenge skirmishes will square off in a Battle Royale this April at the venerable Barber Motorsports Park to crown the “baddest of the bad” Ducati Monster. Thousands of motorcycle fans will witness the final battle in this year’s Monster Challenge when the highly-modified bikes are gathered at the Barber Museum during the AMA Superbike Races on April 21-23rd, 2006. Regional winners of the Monster Challenge at winter International Motorcycle Shows in North America will receive complimentary hotel accommodations, airfare, and race tickets to the grand finale, where the overall winner will take home a new 2006 Ducati Monster S2R 1000. Introduced last year, the Monster Challenge is the search for the coolest, baddest, most customized Ducati Monster in North America. The Monster Challenge is featured at these select motorcycle shows: Houston, Seattle, Long Beach, San Jose, Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Montreal. The finale at Barber will crown one winner with the title of “Coolest Monster in North America.” The national prizes include: 1st Prize 2006 Ducati Monster S2R1000 2nd Prize Roundtrip airfare, hotel and ticket to a MotoGP race 3rd Prize $1000 Ducati Performance Gift Certificate For details about how to enter The Monster Challenge, please visit www.ducatiusa.com or send an email to [email protected]. Founded in 1926, Ducati builds racing-inspired motorcycles characterized by unique engine features, innovative design, advanced engineering and overall technical excellence. The Company produces motorcycles in six market segments which vary in their technical and design features and intended customers: Superbike, Supersport, Monster, Sport Touring, Multistrada and the new SportClassic. The Company’s motorcycles are sold in more than 60 countries worldwide, with a primary focus in the Western European, Japan and North American markets. Ducati has won thirteen of the last fifteen World Superbike Championship titles and more individual victories than the competition put together. For more information about the Company, please visit our web site at www.ducatiusa.com.