Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

U.S. Grand Prix 2009 : Victory for Pedrosa

Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa stormed to a flag-to-flag victory in the U.S. Grand Prix before a sun-drenched crowd of nearly of over 46,000 on the challenging Laguna Seca circuit within sight of the Pacific Ocean in Monterey, California.

Starting fourth on the grid, the Spaniard jetted into the lead over the turn one crest and into the turn two left hand hairpin. Then he was gone. Pedrosa set one fast lap after another to pull away to what seemed a certain victory. But on the final lap Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) made a robust challenge to Pedrosa, closing onto his rear tire in the final turn. Pedrosa, however, was resolute, and used the power of the Honda RC212V to cross the line with a gap of .344s. Rossi was second and his teammate Jorge Lorenzo was third.

The victory, Pedrosa’s seventh in MotoGP and 30th career, was his first since the Catalunya Grand Prix on June 8, 2008. He was also able to solidify fourth in the championship after eight of 17 rounds.

What made the victory especially sweet, was that it showed he’d reverted to the form that can take him to victory after a very difficult set of races. Pedrosa injured his right hip in a crash in Mugello and for the following two races he couldn’t ride as he wanted. Today he was under no physical restrictions and showed what a powerful package he and the Honda RC212V can be.

Attrition took its toll on the field as they tried to complete 32 laps of the demanding
3.61k track. Only 12 made it to the finish, but four of the top eleven were Honda-mounted. San Carlo Honda Gresini’s Toni Elias finished a season best sixth and within .4 secs. of fifth placed Nicky Hayden (Ducati), who he chased to the checkered flag.

Randy De Puniet (LCR Honda) finished ninth, two spots in front of Alex De Angelis on the second San Carlo Honda Gresini machine. De Puniet had difficulty with traffic in the early laps before breaking clear. His fastest lap was the 18th of 32, by which time he was securely in ninth. De Angelis also found the early part of the race more difficult than the latter part. His fast lap was also on the 18th. And though he pressured Marco Melandri (Kawasaki), he couldn’t find a way past and was frustrated to miss out on a top ten finish by under a second.

Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) was among the unlucky. The Italian was in a secure fifth place and on the tail of the lead quartet when his front end slid away in the left hand turn five on the seventh lap. Earlier he’d had problems with engine braking after inadvertently hitting his clutch lever on one of the plastic stanchions separating the pit lane exit from the track. But he took full responsibility for the crash, which happened after repeated warnings.

Earlier, Gabor Talmacsi (Scot Honda) had crashed out on the fourth lap. It was his first race crash in his third MotoGP race, and on his first visit to Laguna Seca.


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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Lorenzo victorious in France


Jorge Lorenzo heads Valentino Rossi after French MotoGP grand prix win


Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo's gamble on tyres paid off as he won the FIM MotoGP World Championship race in France.

But the real shock was second place for the Hayate Racing machine of Marco Melandri, who put his Ducati and Kawasaki nightmares firmly behind him.

Jorge Lorenzo has overtaken his Fiat Yamaha team-mate, the current world champion Valentino Rossi, in the MotoGP world championship after wining the French grand prix at Le Mans.

The Spanish rider finished 17.71sec ahead of Marco Melandri of Italy, with Dani Pedrosa of Spain beating Italy's Andrea Dovizioso into third place with a late burst of speed. Lorenzo leads the overall standings by a point after four races, with Rossi and Casey Stoner tied for second on 65 points.

Rossi had gone in early to switch to his second bike with slick tyres but that strategy proved to be his undoing as he slid off and then visited the pits several times – including once for a ride-through penalty for speeding in the pit lane – to get his tyre selection right.

Behind Lorenzo and Melandri were the Honda duo Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso, with the Ducati of Stoner in fifth.

Chris Vermeulen (Suzuki) was sixth, Colin Edwards (Yamaha) finished seventh and Vermeulen's team-mate Loris Capirossi was eighth. James Toseland was ninth and Toni Elias (San Carlo Honda) 10th. Rossi came 16th and failed to score a championship point.

Melandri struggled to be competitive on the Ducati and also thought he might not be racing this season when Kawasaki pulled out of MotoGP.

A compromise deal struck by Kawasaki and series rights holders Dorna resulted in the Italian racing on machines supplied by the Japanese manufacturer and run under the Hayate Racing banner.

Melandri repaid the team with a fine second place behind Lorenzo, who had stayed out on the drying track with a bike running wet-weather tyres longer than most of his rivals.

Rossi could only finish 16th and failed to score a championship point, leaving the defending champion one point behind new leader Lorenzo in the standings and tied in second with Stoner on 65 points.
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