Fiat Yamaha riders head to Valencia with more records in sight
21.10.2008:
Fiat Yamaha riders head to Valencia with more records in sight
A record-breaking season for Fiat Yamaha reaches its finale this weekend as the Grand Prix of Valencia brings the curtain down on the 2008 MotoGP World Championship. The traditional season-ending Spanish fiesta sees Valentino Rossi arrive with the title already in his pocket and the all-time points record for a season within his sights, whilst Jorge Lorenzo will become the highest-placed rookie in four-stroke MotoGP history by scoring just four points.
In a season that has seen Rossi become MotoGP World Champion for the sixth time, breaking the record number of wins in the class and scoring his 150th Grand Prix podium on the way, he now needs just eleven points to break the record for the highest tally in a season. He currently stands on 357 points, meaning fifth place or above would take him above the benchmark he set in 2005, which was equalled by Casey Stoner last year.
Lorenzo currently lies fourth in the championship and whilst third is now a mathematically impossibility, Andrea Dovizioso would have to win the race and hope the Spaniard finishes no higher than twelfth to dislodge him. Dovizioso is also the only rider with any chance of denying Lorenzo the title of Rookie of the Year. It is a familiar scenario for the old rivals, who entered the final round of the 2006 season at Valencia battling for the 250cc title, which Lorenzo won with fourth place as the Italian finished seventh.
The 21-year-old from Mallorca has never won at the Ricardo Tormo circuit although he will be looking to set that record straight this weekend in front of the 130,000 race-day fans that will pack into the unique stadium-style surroundings of the track. The layout is characterised by a never-ending burst of tight corners, connected by short straights. The long penultimate looping left-hander and the fast entry to turn one contrast violently with the otherwise geometric flip-flop chicanes and slow speed corners of the infield.
Valentino Rossi - "An account to settle"
"I have had two bad years at Valencia and I have some memories I would like to forget with a good result there this year - I have an account to settle! In 2006 I crashed and lost the championship and then last year I broke my hand and lost second place in the championship! It's not the best track for us but I won there with Yamaha in my first year with them and I would like to do the same again this weekend.
It's been a fantastic season and the win on Sunday in Malaysia was great, but I am not finished yet and I want to reward my team, Yamaha and Bridgestone for a fantastic season with the best possible result on Sunday. Then we can all celebrate with a big party!"
Jorge Lorenzo - "Aiming to finish on a high"
"Sunday was really disappointing but I am not hurt and now we are looking forward to Valencia. It's the third 'home' race for me and since at the last one, in Barcelona, I couldn't race, I especially want to get a good result for all my fans. It will be a special race because it's the 10th anniversary of the Valencia circuit. Of course it is a little sad that I am no longer fighting for third in the Championship, but I can still be Rookie of the Year and this is what I am aiming for.
It is really important for me and for all my team. I don't have the best record at Valencia, I've never won the race there, although I was second in 2005, but I do have great memories from winning the 250cc world championship there in 2006. It will be our last race with Michelin, who I won my first premier class race with, and more than anything I want to get a good result for them, for my tyre technician Pierre, for Jean-Phillipe Weber and of course for my team."
Davide Brivio - "We want to win and party"
"Valencia is the last race of the season so we go there with a twin objective - to win the race and to party! It is nice to go to another race without any pressure and I think all the Spanish fans will enjoy watching Valentino in the incredible form he has shown recently.
Of course it has been a tough few weeks on the road for the team, with a lot of travelling involved but honestly when you are winning you don't feel the stress! Even so, it will be nice to be back in Europe and we will be focusing on ending the season on a high. Whatever the result, we'll be partying on Sunday night!"
Daniele Romagnoli - "Motivation is high"
"We still have one race to go and it's another Spanish one so it's really important for Jorge. Despite the bad result in Sepang we have high motivation and we really want to finish the season well. We will all do our very best to be back on the podium there and to finish the season in the way that Jorge and the whole team deserves.
Despite not getting the best results we've been in good shape for the last three race weekends and qualified on the front row for five races in a row now, so we know we can do it. This will be the last race with Michelin and so this is another reason to push. We want to give them a good final result to thank them for the hard work they have done all season."
Valentino Rossi : Information
Age: 29
Lives: Tavullia, Italy
Bike: Yamaha
GP victories: 97 (71 x MotoGP/500cc, 14 x 250cc, 12 x 125cc)
First GP victory: Czech Republic, 1996 (125cc)
First GP: Malaysia, 1996 (125cc)
GP starts: 209 (149 x MotoGP/500cc, 30 x 250cc, 30 x 125cc)
Pole positions: 51 (41 x MotoGP/500cc, 5 x 250cc, 5 x 125cc)
World Championships: 8 Grand Prix (1 x 125cc, 1 x 250cc, 1 x 500cc, 5 x MotoGP)
Jorge Lorenzo: Information
Age: 21
Lives: London, UK
Bike: Yamaha
GP victories: 22 (1 x MotoGP, 17 x 250cc, 4 x 125cc)
First GP victory: Brazil, 2003 (125cc)
First GP: Jerez, Spain, 2002 (125cc)
GP starts: 110 (16 x MotoGP, 48 x 250cc, 46 x 125cc)
Pole positions: 30 (4 x MotoGP, 23 x 250cc, 3 x 125cc)
- KTM reopens activities in the 125cc Grand Prix factory team for 2009.
- Official withdrawal from the 250 cc World Championship.
KTM is focusing its efforts on the 125 cc Grand Prix class for the future of the road racing world championship. The Red Bull KTM Team, under the technical leadership of constructor Harald Bartol, will be a newly weiter >>
A glorious MotoGP season for the Fiat Yamaha Team reaches its penultimate chapter this weekend, with Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo targeting the podium at the Malaysian Grand Prix in Kuala Lumpur. From the fresh air of Phillip Island the series heads to sticky and steamy Sepang with both riders keen to maintain Yamaha's record of having at least one rider on the podium in eve weiter >>
Red Bull KTM 250 star Mika Kallio and Spanish Repsol KTM rider Julian Simon fought a hard battle for the third podium place in Sunday's 250 cc Australian GP with Kallio snatching the glory in the final seconds.
Simon swept ahead of Kallio for the first time on lap three, defending his position until the twelfth lap before both of them started their thrilling cat weiter >>
Fiat Yamaha rider and 2008 World Champion Valentino Rossi recovered from yesterday's mishap to charge through the field from the fourth row at Phillip Island today, eventually taking second behind Casey Stoner. His team-mate Jorge Lorenzo took a second consecutive fourth place after a race long battle with several other riders.
weiter >>
All three KTM 250 riders qualified in top positions for Sunday's Australian Grand Prix, with Red Bull KTM's Mika Kallio in second, team-mate Hiroshi Aoyama in fourth and Spanish Repsol KTM 250 rider Julian Simon in sixth place.
Kallio, who has scored three victories and five podium finishes this season, is determined to keep his title chances alive. Aoyama, a fo weiter >>
An unfortunate mistake in the later stages of this afternoon's qualifying session means that Fiat Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi will start tomorrow's Australian Grand Prix from the outside of the fourth row. The new world champion ran off onto the grass approaching turn three and fell awkwardly when he hit the gravel trap, suffering slight whiplash and some damage to the muscles i weiter >>
The Fiat Yamaha Team make a triumphant return to Australia this week with the triple crown of riders', teams' and constructors' titles already in the bag, one year after arriving at Phillip Island in very different shape.
Valentino Rossi's resounding victory at Motegi, combined with fourth place for his team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and top ten finishes for satellite riders Ja weiter >>
"I think it’s difficult to say, but maybe this is even better than the first championship with Yamaha in 2004. In 2004 I arrived after three championships in a row; the change was very big and no one expected me to win then, not even us to be honest! But t weiter >>
Rider Standings 28/09/2008
1. Valentino Rossi Yamaha ITA 312
2.. Casey Stoner Ducati AUS 220
3.. Daniel Pedrosa Honda ESP 209
4. Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha ESP 169
5. Andrea Dovizioso Honda ITA 136
6. Colin Edwards Yamaha USA 118
7. Chris Vermeulen Suzuki AUS 117
8. Nicky Hayden Honda USA 115
9. Lor weiter >>
Capitalising on a strong start from the third row of the grid, Tech 3 rider Edwards reeled off a series of consistently fast lap times to mount a serious assault on the top six in the second half of the race. The American managed to claw back a three second deficit on Loris Capirossi to shadow the Italian from lap 12 onwards.
Edwards exerted intense pressure on the Itali weiter >>
Valentino Rossi rode a perfect race to win Yamaha's home Grand Prix in Japan today, claiming the 2008 MotoGP World Championship title in the process. In doing so the 29-year-old Italian became only the second rider in history to recapture the title after two years, the other being Giacomo Agostini, whose all-time victory record Rossi surpassed at the last race in Indianapolis. weiter >>
Local hero Tomoyoshi Koyama from Team ISPA KTM Aran was best KTM rider in the 125 cc category and celebrated eleventh place with a huge burn-out in front of his home crowd.
It was one of the diminutive Japanese rider's best results for the 2008 season.
Meanwhile German Red Bull KTM rookie Jonas Folger rode much faster than in prac weiter >>
Repsol KTM 250 rider Julian Simon battled his way to fourth place in Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix on the Motegi circuit and celebrated his best result so far aboard his KTM FRR 250.
But while Simon enjoyed an almost flawless and trouble-free weekend, Red Bull KTM riders Hiroshi Aoyama and Mika Kallio had their hopes of a podium double dashed on the circuit where weiter >>
Jorge Lorenzo was on superb form at Motegi today, taking an impressive pole position on his first visit to Japan as a Yamaha rider. The 21-year-old will head the field for his Factory's home race tomorrow whilst his Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi, who will be bidding to seal his eighth World Championship crown, will start from fourth.
Lorenzo struggled in the dry weiter >>
Red Bull KTM stars Hiroshi Aoyama and Mika Kallio secured front row starting positions for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix proving both riders are completely at home on the Motegi circuit.
Both riders are determined to continue KTM's amazing success story at Motegi, where Aoyama rode to victory in the 250 cc race of 2006, and Kallio repeated the success last year. weiter >>
To celebrate the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi this Sunday, Jorge Lorenzo’s no. 48 Fiat Yamaha will race with an unusual and original livery. The Spanish rider’s YZR-M1 will carry the image of comic-book hero Arsenio Lupin III, the celebrated ‘Gentleman Thief’ made famous in the Japanese Manga series created by Kazuhiko Kato, or ‘Monkey Punch’.
The celebratory fairing is weiter >>
Valentino Rossi gets his first opportunity to wrap up the 2008 MotoGP World Championship this weekend in Yamaha's home race at Motegi. The record-breaking 29-year-old arrives at the Grand Prix of Japan with an 87-point lead over Casey Stoner at the top of the standings with only four races left, meaning third place on Sunday will be enough to seal the title even if Stoner takes v weiter >>
The Red Bull Riders Cup was seized by the visiting MotoGP Rookies Team as they swept the leaderboard at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In tricky damp to wet conditions 16 year old Norwegian Sturla Fagerhaug rode superbly to head home 16 year old South African Mathew Scholtz and 17 year old Briton Matthew Hoyle.
The MotoGP Team won by 114 points to 26 as the first man ho weiter >>
Rider Standings 14/09/2008
1. Valentino Rossi Yamaha ITA 287
2. Casey Stoner Ducati AUS 200
3. Daniel Pedrosa Honda ESP 193
4. Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha ESP 156
5. Andrea Dovizioso Honda ITA 129
6. Chris Vermeulen Suzuki AUS 117
7. Colin Edwards Yamaha USA 109
8. Nicky Hayden Honda USA 104
9. Shiny weiter >>
Valentino Rossi wrote another chapter in his ever-expanding history book at Indianapolis today, claiming his 69th premier-class win and becoming the most successful rider in premier-class history in the process. His hat trick of pole position, fastest lap and race victory made for a perfect first Indianapolis Grand Prix for the Italian and a third place for Jorge Lorenzo rounded weiter >>
Riders Cup Indianapolis - It's a team thing.
The Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Team arrived in Indianapolis on Tuesday evening ready to do battle with the Red Bull AMA U.S. Team for the Riders Cup on Sunday. With 10 riders in each team the two squads represent the best of the World's teenage racers and will be out to show which of the parallel Rookies Cups contains t weiter >>
All four Yamaha MotoGP riders took part in the global unveiling of the all-new Yamaha R1 today in a suitably glittering show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fiat Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, plus Tech 3 Yamaha team-mates Colin Edwards an weiter >>
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The MotoGP World Championship heads to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time in its history this weekend, fittingly with the equal most successful rider of all-time leading the groundbreaking pilgrimage to one of motorsport's most iconic venues. Fiat Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi leveled Giacomo Agostini's record of weiter >>
KTM and Randy Krummenacher's management have reached a mutual agreement to allow the young Swiss rider to take a rest and recuperation break during the coming two races in the 125 cc Grand Prix program.
Krummenacher will therefore not contest the next two races in Indianapolis, USA and Montegi, Japan and instead will return to the KTM factory team stable for the weiter >>
- September 1st to 4th
Teenage stars in the sun.
Four days of glorious Italian sunshine allowed one hundred of the World's best teenage motorcyclists to show off their abilities at the two Initial Selection Events, looking for those who will join the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup in 2009. A pair of two day tests run back to back at the Adria Rac weiter >>
Valentino Rossi reached another milestone in his outstanding career today by matching the all-time premier-class win record. His 68th premier-class victory brings him level with his great countryman Giacomo Agostini and the fact that he was able weiter >>
Spanish teenager Marc Marquez put in an impressive race and final lap to be the top KTM 125 cc finisher at the GP of San Marino on the Misano circuit.
Marquez fought his way through the 23-lap race and overtook his Spanish rival Nicolas Terol on the last lap. Repsol KTM team-mate Esteve Rabat was second-best KTM rider of the day, riding to a strong ninth positio weiter >>
After a very promising start in the 250 cc GP of San Marino by both Red Bull KTM factory riders Mika Kallio and Hiroshi Aoyama disaster struck in the fourth lap when the two touched, crashed and their race was over.
Kallio, who had been ninth after the opening lap, gained ground rapidly and was running right behind his team-mate in sixth position, when both of t weiter >>
QUALIFYING 1
Valentino Rossi put his Fiat Yamaha M1 on the front row for the eighth time this season today, qualifying second behind Casey Stoner for his home Grand Prix at Misano. The 29-year-old, who lives just 15km away in Tavullia, will be flanked by his team-mate Jorge Lorenzo tomorrow, back on the front row of the grid for the first time since race three in weiter >>
Spanish teenager and Repsol rider Marc Marquez was fastest KTM rider on the Misano circuit on Saturday ahead of the 125 cc GP of San Marino.
Local hero Raffaele de Rosa from Team Onde 2000 KTM qualified in fifteenth place while German Wild Card rookie Jonas Folger improved steadily in all practice sessions to take twenty eighth on the grid in only his sec weiter >>
In his fight for the 2008 250 cc World Championship title, Red Bull KTM star Mika Kallio decided to go for broke and try out a brand new chassis on Saturday as he chased a good starting position the San Marino and Riviera die Rimini Grand Prix.
KTM Technical Director Harald Bartol had planned to test the new development on Monday after the race, but since the te weiter >>
Valentino Rossi made a strong start to his second home race of the season today, finishing second on the opening day of action at the San Marino Grand Prix. The Misano circuit is just 15km north of the Fiat Yamaha rider's home town of Tavullia on the Adriatic coast, and the local hero is keen to delight his hordes of fans by adding another Italian weiter >>
The Fiat Yamaha Team contest their second 'home' race of the season this weekend, with the San Marino Grand Prix taking place on Italian soil at the Misano circuit on the Adriatic coast. The trip is a short one for the team, whose base is just 300km away in Milan, but even shorter for Valentino Rossi, with his hometown of Tavullia located a mere 15 weiter >>
Fresh from his fifth victory of the season yesterday, which took him fifty points clear at the top of the standings, Valentino Rossi was back in action today on the first day of a two-day test at Brno. The Fiat weiter >>
Valentino Rossi moved two races clear at the top of the championship with his fifth win of the season today, enjoying an easy ride home after his closest rival Casey Stoner crashed out on lap seven.
Rossi, starting from second, lost some time at the first corner getting past John Hopkins and for the first couple of laps Sto weiter >>
Sturla Fagerhaug won a superb, race long, battle with Matthew Hoyle to win the last race of the 2008 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and by pushing Luis Salom back to third gave JD Beach the Cup even though the 16 year old American failed to finish due to a mechanical failure.
Norwegian 16 year old Fagerhaug shot away from the line only slightly behind pole sitter Mathew Scho weiter >>
Fiat Yamaha team rider Valentino Rossi qualified second in Brno today, despite a soaking wet day at the Czech track as the MotoGP rain curse struck once again. Tomorrow will be the Italian's seventh front-row start of the season and he will once again share it with Casey Stoner, who qualified on pole today.
After heavy rain overnight this morning's practice was run on a weiter >>
South African Mathew Scholtz put in a superb race one in wet and slippery conditions on the traditional Brno circuit on Saturday to snatch his first win ahead of Red Bull Rookie colleagues Sturla Fagerhaug and Matthew Hoyle.
Scholtz, who has had little wet track experience rode himself into pole position and took control of the race ahead of the more experienced weiter >>
Rain on Saturday spoilt the chances of KTM's 125 cc riders of improving their place on the grid for Sunday's Grand Prix at Brno, Czech Republic following dry track training and faster times in the Friday session.
Italian Raffaele de Rosa from Team Onde 2000 KTM was fastest rider in the rain, but will still have to start the race from eleventh position on the gri weiter >>
Red Bull KTM star Mika Kallio is fighting an exciting head-to-head battle with Marco Simoncelli for the crown in the 250 cc World Championship.
Kallio talks to KTM Racing News about the perspectives for the final part of this year's season - and how he plans reclaim the leadership in the championship standings.
KTM Racing News: You are st weiter >>
KTM riders Julian Simon and Mika Kallio on Saturday qualified in sixth and seventh position in wet and difficult conditions on the traditional racing circuit of Brno ahead of Sunday's 250 cc Czech Grand Prix.
Both riders said after the session that they could have gone faster. Spanish Repsol KTM 250 rider Simon battled with poor visibility as the visor of his he weiter >>
Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup - Brno Race 1 - August 16th
Mathew Scholtz won his first Rookies race with a superb win over Sturla Fagerhaug and Matthew Hoyle in desperately slippery conditions that saw both JD Beach and Luis Salom crash as they chase overall victory in the 2008 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup.
The 15 year old South African started weiter >>
Scholtz dominates in the rain
Mathew Scholtz set a stunning pole time in two soaking wet sessions on Friday afternoon to qualify ahead of lap record holder Matthew Hoyle, Sturla Fagerhaug and Cup leader JD Beach. The 15 year old South African was less than a second faster than his rivals but what makes his success so impressive is that he has almost no rain experie weiter >>
The Fiat Yamaha Team resume their pursuit of the MotoGP World Championship title this weekend after a four-week summer holiday, with Valentino Rossi leading the series into what promises to be a thrilling seven-race climax. The Czech Republic hosts round twelve of eighteen, with the town of Brno staging a Grand Prix for the 39th time since the original 14km road circuit was first weiter >>
ALICE MOTORRAD GRAND PRIX DEUTSCHLAND
RedBullCup Championship Classification 21Sachsenring, Saturday, July 12, 2008
1 BEACH JD USA 144 20 20 20 20 20 11 8 25
2 SALOM Lu weiter >>
Eine große Auswahl an Wetten rund um das Thema Motorsport und Formel 1 findet man auf dem Online Portal des Sportwetten Anbieters Interwetten.com
Falls Sie Fan des Motorsports sind, sollten Sie bei youwin.com wetten – der Wettanbieter mit den besten Quoten und Wettmärkten.
Welcome to Vertex Auto, your best source for porsche car parts | Chassis Dyno | formal dresses online
