Spain’s Dani Pedrosa took advantage of a Casey Stoner crash on the warm-up lap to win the Valencia Grand Prix, his second victory of the season securing third place in the MotoGP world championship. Ducati rider Stoner was due to start on pole and was bidding for a third straight win in the final race of the year but was unable to make the start after he flipped high into the air off the bike on the warm-up lap. Pedrosa led the charge from the front row and never relinquished the lead. The victory at his home race lifted the Honda pilot above the Australian to third in the standings behind compatriot Jorge Lorenzo and champion Valentino Rossi.
Nell’ultimo GP della stagione trionfo dello spagnolo della Honda davanti alle Yamaha di Rossi e Lorenzo. Incredibile il ritiro dell’australiano della Ducati che nel giro di allineamento commette un errore ed è disarcionato. Ottimo Spies, settimo.
Ben Spies will go to MotoGP as the new World Superbike Champion after doing exactly what he needed to do in order to secure the title in the final race of the season at Portimao. Having dominated the opening race to open out a 15 point advantage over Noriyuki Haga heading into the decider, the American produced a comparatively tentative performance to simply ride for the chequered flag in fifth place. Finishing within where he needed to, regardless of where Haga finished, the Ducati rider rallied hard in the latter stages to finish in second, but it wasn’t enough to deny Spies, the two rivals and friends concluding their epic season-long battle separated by just six points.
Valentino Rossi sealed his second successive MotoGP world championship after finishing third at the Malaysian Grand Prix. The championship was Rossi’s fourth for Yamaha, his seventh premier class world title and his ninth overall. Ducati rider Casey Stoner made light of wet conditions at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia, snatching the lead from Dani Pedrosa on the first lap and then powering away from the Spaniard.
Con il 3° posto davanti a Lorenzo nel GP di Malesia (netta vittoria dell’australiano della Ducati di Stoner su Pedrosa), Valentino Rossi conquista il nono titolo iridato con una gara di anticipo.
Casey Stoner showed no sign of the illness that has derailed his season when he upstaged Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo to secure a hat-trick of home Australian Grand Prix wins. Stoner, who missed three races with fatigue before posting a podium finish at the Portuguese Grand Prix this month, took the tactical battle by 1.935 seconds over champion Rossi in sunny conditions at the 4.45km Phillip Island circuit.
Nel GP d’Australia trionfa l’australiano della Ducati Stoner davanti a Valentino Rossi che con la clamorosa caduta dello spagnolo Lorenzo alla prima curva ha ora 38 punti di vantaggio a 2 gare dalla fine. In 250 Simoncelli vince e rivede il Mondiale (Aoyama solo 7° ha ora solo 12 punti sull’italiano). In 125 vince Simon ed è campione.
Noriyuki Haga says he cannot wait for the World Superbike Championship title showdown at Portimao after an eighth win and a second place saw him put ten points between himself and Ben Spies with just one round remaining. Shrugging off a less than ideal starting position of fifth, Haga was made to work hard in race one after getting bottled up behind Max Biaggi in third for the majority of the race. Following several attempts at trying to get past the Aprilia, it wasn’t until lap 17 – six laps from the finish – that Haga dispatched of Biaggi for second position and set about hunting leader Spies down.
A Magny Cours lo statunitense Ben Spies vince gara 1 scavalcando il rivale in classifica generale, ma il giapponese Haga si impone nella seconda e torna al comando. L’ultimo Gp, il 25 ottobre in Portogallo, sarà decisivo. Il romano dell’Aprilia Biaggi ottiene un 3° e un 2° posto.
Jorge Lorenzo briefly lost first place from pole in the Portuguese MotoGP before claiming a peerless victory to reduce the gap on World Championship leader Valentino Rossi to 18 points. Rossi, Fiat Yamaha team-mate of Lorenzo, trailed home in fourth adrift of the leading trio, while returning Casey Stoner finished second ahead of Dani Pedrosa. Pedrosa was quick off the line, moving into top spot from fourth on the grid while Loris Capirossi made up a place to slot in behind Stoner, Rossi and Colin Edwards. Nicky Hayden had gained two to settle behind the Rizla Suzuki rider.
Lo spagnolo Lorenzo domina il GP del Portogallo bissando il successo del 2008. Alle sue spalle il redivivo Stoner, che precede Pedrosa. Un Rossi mai in gara è solo quarto e vede ridursi a 18 punti il vantaggio in classifica sul compagno-rivale. Settimo Dovizioso, ritirato Capirossi.
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Noriyuki Haga returned to the summit of the World Superbike Championship standings despite being denied a double victory at Imola by Michel Fabrizio. While many expected team orders to come into play, Fabrizio caught and overtook Haga on lap 13 to romp home to a comfortable victory.
A Imola, dodicesima prova del Mondiale Superbike, spettacolare successo di Noriuiki Haga in gara 1, con Biaggi secondo. Nella seconda gara, vinta da Michel Fabrizio, brilla il podio del debuttante Marco Simoncelli.
The German Round of the Hannspree FIM Superbike World Championship offered a number of thrills and spills at the Nurburgring as Ben Spies (Yamaha World Superbike) moved into the lead of the championship for the first time this year. In front of 42,000 spectators the Yamaha man took the race 1 win from Noriyuki Haga (Ducati Xerox), and his second place in race 2, in addition to a turn 1 crash for Haga, allowed him to open up an 18-point gap at the top of the table. Britain’s Jonathan Rea (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) took his second win of the season with a commandeering performance in race 2.
MotoGP leader Valentino Rossi extended his lead over Yamaha team mate Jorge Lorenzo by winning the San Marino Grand Prix in front of his home crowd. World champion Rossi, now 30 points clear of the Spaniard with four races left. Rossi - fastest in every session heading into the race, held just a few kilometres from his home town of Tavullia - slipped to third behind Dani Pedrosa and Toni Elias at Turn One, then lost out to Fiat Yamaha team-mate and title rival Jorge Lorenzo at the start of lap two of 28.
Valentino Rossi domina il GP di San Marino tenendo sempre a distanza di sicurezza il compagno-rivale. Terzo Pedrosa, quarto Dovizioso che precede sul filo Capirossi. Ora il Dottore ha 30 punti di margine su Jorge a quattro gare dalla fine.
After falling from the lead at the last two races, Jorge Lorenzo kept his Fiat Yamaha on two wheels while Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi crashed around him to win the Indianapolis MotoGP. Pedrosa, whose total domination of the Indy weekend was narrowly broken by Alex de Angelis in morning warm-up, bolted from pole and was sitting a few tenths clear of Rossi and Lorenzo when the front of his Repsol Honda folded on entry to the tight final turn at the end of lap four of 28.
Lo spagnolo Lorenzo della Yamaha approfitta delle cadute dei rivali per vincere il Gp di Indianapolis e riportarsi a venticinque punti da Rossi nella classifica mondiale a cinque gare dalla fine. Secondo un grande De Angelis, terzo Hayden.
