Round 10 - Laguna Seca MotoGP


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Good evening and welcome to the legendary Laguna Seca circuit in

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sunny California, around 10 of the MotoGP World Championships. You can

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see they are getting fired up, the riders are about to go out on their

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warm-up lap. Let us headed to our commentary team of Steve Parrish

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gorgeous here in this national park. There are the guys on the grid, and

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in pole position, Jorge Lorenzo who had a massive crash here yesterday

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after a practice. Clearly doing a good jobs. He can barely walk but

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he can ride a motorcycle as he proved this morning.

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Let us look through. On the front row, Jorge Lorenzo was a triumph

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getting pole position. Beside him is Casey Stoner and his team-mate

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Dani Pedrosa. The top three of the Year and the top three on the grid.

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Ben Spies is in the second row with Marco Simoncelli. In rose 3, we

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tell you is that only one rider in the first two Rose, Ben Spies, has

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gone for the softer option 4th tyres. -- for tyres. It will be

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interesting to see how that pans out. There are the standings, it is

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tight. Remember, it is 25 for a win. He could lose it all today. The

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most important thing at the start of the fourth row is Hal Crutchlow

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and Colin Edwards. Baptiste the Ben Bostrom making his debut at the

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is injured. The Pramac Racing boys are

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struggling this weekend. We are getting ready for our first

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race state side. Red flag. Last rider moving into the back, the

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safety car following them around. Perfect conditions. Put your hot

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dogs down, for the start of the from Jorge Lorenzo. Pedro are sir

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macro is normally the fastest. Casey Stoner tried to get around

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the outside. Jorge Lorenzo hangs on to it. Marco Simoncelli tried to go

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them. Look what happened to Dani Pedrosa. A great start from Jorge

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time. A launching pad. Down they go, everyone through cleaning. Jorge

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Lorenzo, in front of everyone else. This is Chichi into the last turn.

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they climb up the hill. Nicky Hayden. Jorge Lorenzo, brave on

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that first lap. Can he hang on? Valentino Rossi cut its back. He

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shuts the door on him. That was close. He is all over the place but

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clinging on. He doesn't want to drop further back. At the top end

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of the circuit, Corkscrew. Ben Spies of having another look on the

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outside. Rainey Curve, one of the most scary parts of the circuit.

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Ben Spies is all over, he can taste that Ducati. Turn 11, down the

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straight. Down we go. Valentino Rossi had another moment.

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Struggling for grip. 700 metres but there is a bend. One of the only

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places where you get into sixth gear. Pedro's urgent macro is

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closing in on Jorge Lorenzo. -- Pedro are sir macro -- Dani Pedrosa

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is closing down. Remember he was the man in Germany. Look at the gap

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they are putting on Casey Stoner. He said yesterday... Marco

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Simoncelli. He has gone through. He has gone for the softer tyre. There

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back and sides from the local boy. What a fantastic view. And dirty

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corner. -- Andretti Hairpin. This is the corner which caught a number

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of riders out yesterday. Ben Spies went down at that point in the

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qualifying session. Casey Stoner has set the fastest lap so far. He

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held the lap record last year. is almost a second behind the race

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is down. A nightmare. He was running 10th just behind that

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easter macro. That was expensive. But he looks OK. -- just behind

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closer. Not quite as quick the last time around. Almost an identical

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time for Dani Pedrosa. A fantastic the hill, under the bridge. Into

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the final corner before they go over the top, you cannot sue the

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corner, you are blind. Trying to keep it as straight as possible. If

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you get the first part of this wrong, you get the second and third

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part as well. 65 kilometres an hour. His team-mate Steve -- Andrea

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Dovizioso. Marco Simoncelli wants to come and play. Valentino Rossi

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has a handful on. But look at the gap that Ben Spies has made on

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Valentino Rossi. Ben Spies did not get away so well. With the greatest

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of respect, you are holding up Nicky Hayden. Valentino Rossi is on

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the different rear suspension system. Nicky Hayden opted for the

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older system, he reckoned he would get a bit more grip, he wasn't

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comfortable with the new bike. we know, all the technology is the

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best. It is what you get used to. The one-hour of qualifying is not

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enough time. Casey Stoner still chipping away. These two at the

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front charging hard. Half a dozen laps down now. They can see Ben

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Spies making headway. The team has been thinking all the time, he led

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the race in Germany. He is having tyre at issues. It looks like he is

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overworking his tyres. Maybe Casey is tried to take things easier

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earlier on. This is a shorter circuit. Casey Stoner needs to have

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some tyres at the end of the race. When you listen to him, nobody gets

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on the power as early as he does out of the corners. Talking to some

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of the greats here, it has been a real treat. Kenny Roberts. They all

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say this circuit, the cannot afford to be aggressive. Oh no, Simon

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to him last year. Goes around the faster. These U2 are holding each

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other up at full speed. We know now the much quieter Jorge Lorenzo, the

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world champion who won last year by sheer consistency, by being very

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solid, as he has been this year. He has got a pace he is happy with. He

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will, he is not in his best physical condition. Because of the

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crash yesterday. He will have to put a bit more weight on his arms.

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These motorbikes, you do not release it, there is not enough

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time. -- you do not really sit on The climb up the hill is something

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else. It is very steep. When you stand in the middle of the track,

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you do not think it is the shortest, it seems quite big. It is a weird

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experience. It is so good to watch. In certain places you can see most

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of the circuit. He lost a little bit of time there. On that corner.

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That was where Nicky Hayden went down from the Corkscrew. A

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different corner to where he crashed last year. I guess he does

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not have many engine hours up. the teams have been saying it does

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not affect them now because they have a fortnight to get these bikes

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sorted out. The biggest problem is when one of these bikes crashers --

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crashes, it fills the bikes up with sand and dust. There was a lot of

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late boil burned here last night sorting out these bikes. He has

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inherited a bit of space there, especially with the Simoncelli

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crash. He started 12th and is now eight. -- 8th. This will be a long,

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hugely demanding physical afternoon for these guys. You do not get a

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breather. Casey has dropped back a this weekend. Sadly quit early.

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went of the track and decided that was the end of it. So poor old Ben

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Bostrom, who has not had a particularly great time will be

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this weekend, he was off the pace by about four seconds, not unusual

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never having ridden a MotoGP bike before, at the age of 27, it is a

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shock to the system. Want to tick off the list. Here's qualified

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about sixth fastest as he retires. I hope he does not used the MotoGP

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ride in his Superbike race, that would be chaos. Hope not, because

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these have carbon brakes. Jorge Lorenzo. Five seconds back from

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Dovizioso. He has to get his head down now. Colin Edwards, one of the

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family favourites. Your top Yanks are bends be used in fifth, -- Ben

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times, which are good. This is Ben Spies, in that same kind of time as

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the frontrunners. But he is far back, about five seconds back on

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Dovizioso. His time, last lap 23: a bit of a moment somewhere.

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will keep an eye on that. It is only a minute or so and they're

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back round again. This is so technical. Complicated, tricky,

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then it becomes very natural and much softer. That was a replay of

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changes sooner be Ducati, they have run out of options, they have

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changed every component they can. If they cannot fix the bug may be

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the best change they could do is give Valentino some binoculars so

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we could see whether front rowers. -- so he could see. The am not

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making much progress. It is always half a second off the pace. It is

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worth expanding on what they have done with this new bike. They were

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trying to use next year's set up but this year's engine but it kind

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of backfired. It has because of a set the stall out with it for next

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year it is not looking good. Jorge Lorenzo absolutely nailed it from

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Jorge Lorenzo. And he was so quick on the brakes. Nice and neatly

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through there. Valentino Rossi sneaking around with Ben Spies. It

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was not good for him because you can see him losing lots of ground

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there. That was really not a good past you. All that hard work that

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took place in the hour-long qualifying session. Ben Spies

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started in for. Ben Bostrom started last but has had to pulling what

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Bad luck. What happened? It it was not bad luck, but rider error. I

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was having trouble putting it back into second and first gear, going

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in. I kept going off the track. That his rider error. -- that is.

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The bike is the nominal, much better than me right now. I have

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never ridden something that turns so well. I cannot thank The Bhoys

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enough, they did a phenomenal job. I feel bad retiring but when you

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are that far back... Talking of rider error, we just saw as well...

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To they seemed to be getting it together. It helped him move up to

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13th place in the championship. The only bright light in the Suzuki

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camp at the moment is that John Hopkins is back in the next round,

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two riders, two bikes in the next As we listen to Dani Pedrosa, is he

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stalking Lorenza, just sitting in having breathers and then coming

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minute. Colin realises that, goes round the outside and jams it up

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night in our research meeting, in the bar! Pedrosa, Lorenzo and Stone

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are the three. We are getting big battles between Hayden, Rossi and

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Battista, he was out of it. Then there is Spies and Dovizioso.

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Disclosing into these really interesting groups. They do not

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fail to disappoint. The elder Three Musketeers, as such. To bits here

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and Spies are just clinging in Puniet was a non-starter through

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speeds here. It is so tight. final corner, turn 11, they come

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out of that, then a drag race up and over the hill and a slow corner

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at the bottom. One of the shortest the bike from first up to sixth

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Gear. Possibly the bike is coming back to him a bit. 21 litres, these

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bikes, it is all they are allowed to carry. They would like to use

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more because it would be faster but those are the rules. We are going

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to see whether Pedrosa is falling back to Stoner, or Lorenzo is

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clearing up. I think Stoner was the faster Guy last time round. Lorenzo

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has responded. Lorenzo has the hammer down. Last time he dropped

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up a bit now. It looks like Stoner circuit like this the Yamaha is so

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competitive. That Honda has so much squirt, it was a big problem early

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in the season but with recent form it has been a match. We are over

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half race distance. I personally believe for me get to the next

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is no coming back from the Corkscrew. Slap-bang in there, no

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dilly-dallying there from Casey Stoner. He got himself committed,

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had Dani Pedrosa waiting in there. their from Casey Stoner. He has

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decided he will go and see if he can play with the Spaniard as his

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dear wife watches on. The whole crew will be impressed with that.

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Championship leader is in second place there. If they finish as they

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are now he will still go away from here leading the championship, but

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only by 10. This is the championship we are watching here.

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moment, they should do, all three of them have gone for the harder

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option. The suspension and work that has gone into the rear is

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phenomenal. The way they grip and develop, you were talking to London

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30 brake horsepower, and that is limited. It could be more. That is

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what the power is when they give it maximum. There are lower gears

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there with and he's been and traction control. -- and to spin. -

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weekend. Generally it has been 10 the rear tyres and eight front

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tyres for every rider. There is Karel Abraham having a fairly

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reasonable run, in tenth position. He has been a giant slayer, Karel

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Abraham. He is developing a habit of popping off the bike before he

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has finished. He will be a force to accident on the Repsol Honda

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machine. His first time here, having missed this race last year.

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Because of his injury. Loris Capirossi is in pain. Meanwhile,

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back at the front, Casey Stoner is on the warpath. He sure is. He is

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really pressing on. Casey Stoner said yesterday, he thought he had a

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race pace. But look at the statistics. Jorge Lorenzo will be

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thinking he kept it up his sleeve. When we get to the faster circuits,

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to the next one in the Czech Republic, it is a more high-speed

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flowing circuit, and Indianapolis witches and in between one. Honda

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is still the horsepower machine. It still proves it was very hard when

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Jorge Lorenzo was chasing. When you get more horsepower which he seemed

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in a house, it floats at that point. It is in mid- air, you are changing

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direction. A I do not know how they do it. Extraordinary. Over this

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flat section of the circuit. Peculiar how the corners

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drastically changed. When you start climbing the hill back around, 5

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and 6, you can carry a lot more corner speed. 11 laps remaining.

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Then, up the hill, it is like a road circuit, at a mountain circuit,

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really tough. We have sadly lost Simon chilly.

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The another disappointing race, what happened?

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I was pushing a lot, to try to stay with the leading rider. I do not

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know, I lost it. There was no warning. I am sorry and

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disappointed. But we will come back in Brno. I will give 100%. Casey

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Stoner is giving us 100%. There is something fundamental with the

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Marco Simoncelli's riding staff. is a big guy. He calls the bike

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around. He is still learning and try to stay with the leaders. I

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would say he is in a bit too much of a rush. These guys, every single

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lap, every corner, they are at the limit. Going know there is such an

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easy job. Trying to stay with them and not fall off is nearly

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impossible. They have so much ability and talent. Marco is on a

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similar bike. It is a factory speck bike. Of course, he hasn't quite

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got the experience of these riders. The he is ever so enthusiastic.

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Very enthusiastic. This is one of the best chances that Casey Stoner

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has got, getting out of there. Using the Hondas advantage. They

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have a lot of respect, the crowd here. Standing up. I was expecting

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Dani to be on the pace. Maybe he is still sore. He is the only person

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who knows whether he is tight but he looks like he has given up the

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fight with nine laps remaining. Casey Stoner is on the back wheel.

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Casey Stoner has got to get past or he will drop another five points.

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Jorge Lorenzo, coming in a round Casey Stoner. Jorge Lorenzo has

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been chipping away. Only 15 points. That gap has evaporated. He had a

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healthy lead after that Silverstone crash for Jorge Lorenzo. It has

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been chipped away. Yamaha one with another rider, Ben Spies. 25 points

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would be neat for him. What a series it has been for him. Winning

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in Qatar. First in France. In the UK. Second in Netherlands, third in

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Italy and Germany. He has been so solid. Casey Stoner is really

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starting to wind this up, over that crazy left-hander. There is Dani

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Pedrosa. He is really quick around here as a rule. In third place.

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Andrea Dovizioso is 15 seconds back from the guys at the front.

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Spies is looking at the timing board. He had been a long way back.

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He has come back four seconds. He has been lapping faster. A

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wonderful shot there, the Bridgestone have been forced into

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the ground. It has to be. A lot of the riders have said, coming here,

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riding the MotoGP for the first time, they cannot get over pushing

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the tyres hard enough to get the heat. A horrible situation. How

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hard is he trying and working? really rings it out like a rag.

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Where is Casey Stoner? Going up the hill, at Casey Stoner was really.

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The Corkscrew. It is about horsepower, and getting around the

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corner. Managing to get the bike stood up, up right. Letting go just

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a tiny little bit. One of his passes will almost certainly be

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instigated the corner before. and a half laps. Jorge Lorenzo will

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be on maximum defence. How about that? Ben Spies just making his way

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past. Over the top of the hole. Casey Stoner is really close at

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that point. -- the top of the hill. The to make a pass around here, we

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have seen it at the top of the Corkscrew. The majority of passes

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will be on the final corner. The Yamaha is good in the corner, so it

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is Jorge Lorenzo. Casey Stoner has the drive. He has to go higher and

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wide. Trying to politician. He is carried so much more speed. --

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move over the top. Out of turn 11. I tell you what, that is a

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frighteningly fast corner. And he blind. The most surprised person

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out there will be Casey Stoner. He said this morning he looked more

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There are still six laps remaining. The crowd stand again. You remember

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when we were talking about Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi, when

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Jorge Lorenzo really got his eye in, of Valentino Rossi raised his game.

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These are two opponents, Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo are taking

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each other to a new level. I am wondering, has Jorge Lorenzo said,

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I am beaten up, I cannot go faster. He can barely walk. Maybe he has

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ever done things. Fair play, he will still end up with 20 points.

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What to a move from Casey Stoner, around the top. Into the Andretti

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Hairpin, look at the body move, he flings himself into the right.

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Where they pleased or angry? I can't make it out. Jorge said, I

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can hardly walk, but I am fine on the bike. It is the difference

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between getting a fast lap in... The pit crew need to see how much

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he has pulled out. He is still pushing really hard. Toni Elias

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letting anyone past. The difference between a really fast that and

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hanging out for a race distance. We only have four laps left. That is a

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lot of punishment. In a lap and a half... Look at this. This is for

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fourth position. At front, Jorge Lorenzo needs to settle the pace.

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These two have been having a belting race, but in each other

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under enormous pressure. Andrea Dovizioso. And Ben Spies on the

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Yamaha. Dani Pedrosa somewhere in the middle. Still under pressure

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from Nicky Hayden. It looked as though Nicky Hayden was going to

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monster him a little while ago. Yamaha verses Honda. What has Ben

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Spies got? He has caught Andrea Dovizioso. And he has local

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knowledge. He was racing Superbikes here only a handful of years ago.

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Spies could not get close. Spies is known for his ability to

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ride on will warn tyres. Interestingly, Ben Spies has the

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softer option rear tyres. He was debating what to use. He was in a

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50-50 situation but whatever he has used has the durability because he

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is still very much on the pace and looking like he is going to pass.

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You are right. Casey Stoner has a Casey Stoner put on Jorge Lorenzo.

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If he is going to make a move, this is a good time. At eight Ben it is

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more likely to do it into turn 11. Is this the move? He has done it,

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Ben Spies has done it. A big there. In to turn 11, Ben Spies is

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good on the brakes. Jammed it on the inside. Once you have it in the

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inside there is no way Dovizioso could go round from that stage. A

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perfect racing move down the inside of someone, even though you

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compromise your race by going into the corner, it does not matter.

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There is your race leader. Remember him, we have not seen him for a

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while. 3.5 seconds in front now of Jorge Lorenzo, eight seconds in

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front of Dani Pedrosa. All we have to do is roll it around from here.

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What a beautiful place. Casey Stoner now coming into that left

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hand side. He will be counting down because we are about to go on the

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last lap. Jorge Lorenzo said there is nothing more I could do, you

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could see the body language from him. It is still within a race win.

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I spoke to Lin Jarvis yesterday after the accident we were talking

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about and he thought it was season over. He has not had a sudden spurt

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of speed. Two riders lap to there. It is not helpful on a trap this

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on, give me a break! Are wonder if he will have a hometown hero dive

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won the final corner, just bring it for you, probably! And absolutely

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and the team already. Casey Stoner across the line! Brilliant ride

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from the Australian. The Jorge Lorenzo, great staff. One poll,

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carrying his injuries through. -- in fourth, ahead of Dovizioso.

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Valentino Rossi beats his team-mate Nicky Hayden. You would have

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Casey Stoner, can you? It looks like his year. Bowe was his best

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lap. -- that was his best lap. There is Barbara, getting across

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the line in ninth. He will be the... A Colin Edwards made it eight. --

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Colin Edwards made it eightth. -- and will be best pleased with

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themselves. He did a fantastic job under trying circumstances. We all

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thought it was over yesterday. thought he had broken his leg, the

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way he landed. But he dusted himself off and hobbled over to the

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bike, went out and it knew he would fourth place in the championship,

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displacing Valentino Rossi by two Casey Stoner has finished on the

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podium in every race except for one where volunteer out --, where

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Valentino Rossi knocked him off. thought we were entering up the

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exhaust pipe of the Yamaha there, fortunately it has a silencer on to

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stop that happening. He could smell the blood of, I think. They will

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have to lift him off. That was a belting ride. Certainly was.

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Sensational for Casey. Maybe finally closure for 2008, that

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defeat to Valentino Rossi, that famous accident on the Corkscrew,

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he returned the favour. Here he takes the congratulations of his

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was in the race. He put in one lap, called himself a one-lap wonder in

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the press conference yesterday. His race pace has been nothing like all

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weekend, so I leave it with you Ben Spies will be disappointed. If

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he had not got swamped at turn one it would have been a different

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story. If he got off the line I think he would have run with the

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guys. He would have had a chance with Dani Pedrosa there, for third

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place. I feel for him. He did a good job, it was useful. He has a

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nice Gabba now, maybe a holiday and some Californian sunshine to sort

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himself out. He might go for some The Mannheim that victory is with

0:52:260:52:30

me now. We spoke to Casey last night Eddie said he did not feel

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the had the race pace yesterday, so He probably found the rhythm are

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more and more to make a race like this. In the end he did a wonderful

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race. What was it that you found? We know his action ring was a

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problem. Were you concerned? At the general he struggled a bit with the

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front because it is bumpy. worked mainly on this problem.

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* owner did a fantastic job. -- Stoner. Congratulations.

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Disappointing not to take the win, what was it in the end? The injury?

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I am disappointed because I waited for victory. Casey has been faster

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than last. Mainly at the end, he was more fresh, so he deserved the

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victory. The pain in the back, in my arms was not good for us at the

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end of the race. When I saw Casey going so fast I just threw in the

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towel and finished second. It is fair to say that Lorenzo was at

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least 10 feet of the ground at the height of that. He landed very hard

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indeed. On his back, on his side really. It looked like he was more

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hurt than he was. It was terrifying fall in Jarvis. Paul Dani Pedrosa

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will be thinking what am I going to do? Congratulations. You could not

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keep up with the others in the end. In the middle of the race I was

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very tired. Physically I could not It was hard for me physically. The

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bike was speeding on the rear. Basically I dropped because I was

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not ready physically. But I am happy to be back on the podium

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again, just after might come back. It is great to keep up the pace

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with these guys. I'm just hoping to get something us back for the next

0:54:580:55:03

race. His fitness is still coming back. Obviously it is a very

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physical circuit. Much more so than it was in Germany last time. That

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was an easier circuit. In terms of Not happening at the moment for Cal

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Crutchlow. It is the antithesis of Three beautiful looking motorcycles

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there. That is the last time will see those red and black colours on

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the other half. They look absolutely stunning. -- on at the

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We saw almost top bikes have the same compound tyres. Ben Spies ran

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a soft option. A decent over lap there from a bridge don't point of

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view, who have been under stick recently for having tyres that do

0:56:340:56:37

not see the temperature of the circuit. That is being addressed

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from the next race. There is the poor old Simoncelli dust field bike.

0:56:460:56:52

Ben Spies may well have been the top American but the top Australian

0:56:520:56:57

is Casey Stoner. Congratulations. You really did it today and learnt

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that win. We have had a tough weekend. The last few races were

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tough, we have had the pace but not pulled it off. This weekend we

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never had the pace until warm-up, then we found something we were

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more happy with. I went into the race with more confidence. At the

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start we decided to be patient, but I did not feel good at the

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beginning, so I was happy to make most of my time up on the brakes. I

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want to get the bike towing as good as I could. Slowly the bike started

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to get better, I got better feeling. I saw everybody else struggling a

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bit. That is when I decided to move forward, try to get to Jorge

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Lorenzo, once I was behind him I want to see what he was able to do.

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For me it was a few laps to go, I decided to go and try to make a

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gapped. It was a great weekend for us to come from such a disaster,

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yesterday, qualifying looked good but the race pace was not there. So

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today was a big turnaround. Thank you. It was the bike coming his way,

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that fuel load making the bike more manageable. Some times even a tyre

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going away from you makes the bike more stable, I know it sounds

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ridiculous but sometimes too much grip can harm you. Once the fuel

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load drops off and the suspension has settled in nicely and you get

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used to the track, it can come back more. A lot of it was going away

0:58:330:58:42

from Jorge Lorenzo. We have still got it really tight at the top. But

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we also have it tight between Honda and Yamaha. The brawl they were

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having all year continues. They were level with 65 victory siege,

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now Honda moves in front. -- 65 victories each. They are talking.

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They did not used to like each There you go, Casey Stoner breathes

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a sigh of relief as he gets on to the podium. Lucky Lorenzo did not

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win because it would have been a step too far to climb with that

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The Constructors' Championship is still red hot and is being led by

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One more trophy to go. He has been waiting for this. Casey Stoner on

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the top step of the podium. A fantastic result. Five wins from 10

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for Casey Stoner so far this weekend. Six races in the space of

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eight weekends. A couple of weekends off now but back in Europe

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on 14th August for around 11 of 18. See you then. From the US Grand

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