:00:40. > :00:44.Good evening. No gold medals on offer here, but one last bit of
:00:44. > :00:53.international top-class action for you to finish off your sporting
:00:53. > :01:00.Sunday with. We're at the legendary Laguna Seca for round ten of the
:01:00. > :01:05.MotoGP championship here in California. Cal Crutchlow lines up
:01:06. > :01:14.on the grid in fifth place. The boys are ready to go and the race
:01:14. > :01:24.is ready to start in about a minute's time.
:01:24. > :01:28.Casey Stoner is in second, and Dani Pedrosa is in third place. Let's go
:01:28. > :01:37.to our commentators. Just before the race gets under way, some news
:01:38. > :01:42.and there's plenty of it. First of all, a big shoblg, Ben Spies
:01:42. > :01:48.announcing he is going to leave Yamaha at the end of the season.
:01:48. > :01:54.This will be his last race for Yamaha. And the astonishing thing
:01:54. > :02:01.about Spies' announcement is that he has not told us where he's going.
:02:01. > :02:06.There is talk of him going back to the land of BMW. And I'm surprised
:02:06. > :02:16.he's announced it before the he's announced it before the
:02:16. > :02:17.
:02:17. > :02:27.beginning of this race. Nicky Haden is staying with due
:02:27. > :02:28.
:02:28. > :02:31.yacty, but that leaves questions -- Ducati, but that leaves questions
:02:31. > :02:38.about Valentino. . Yes, but he's coming towards the
:02:38. > :02:43.end of his career and it would be such a shame for his legacy to be
:02:44. > :02:53.tainted with Ducati because things haven't worked out. And that's that
:02:54. > :03:06.
:03:06. > :03:16.fantastic helmet design. Yeah, I think it's a bit two-faced.
:03:16. > :03:22.The talk is that Valentino has been offered 17 million euros to stay at
:03:22. > :03:29.Ducati. But you imagine whichever ride he doesn't take that will be
:03:29. > :03:34.the best option for Cal. And they're expecting a decision from
:03:34. > :03:44.Valentino within a week. So we should know where all the pieces of
:03:44. > :03:44.
:03:44. > :03:49.the jigsaw are going to fit together for 2013.
:03:49. > :03:59.Here we are lining up on the grid. Isle' leave Matt to bask in the
:03:59. > :04:04.
:04:04. > :04:14.sunshine and enjoy it. Stoner and pedroseo on the front of
:04:14. > :04:16.
:04:16. > :04:26.the grid, -- Pedrosa. This is the shortest track we go on,
:04:26. > :04:27.
:04:27. > :04:35.it's fast and furious. 32 laps. The revs are up in California. A
:04:35. > :04:44.brilliant start from Lorenzo. Lorenzo absolutely up there like a
:04:44. > :04:54.duck. Pedrosa trying to go round. It's too site tight Nice move from
:04:54. > :04:59.Spies. Stoner -- oh, no, it can't happen any more!
:04:59. > :05:06.So many crashes for that team an absolute nightmare for them.
:05:06. > :05:11.Up front, Lorenzo leads from pole. A fantastic start for him.
:05:11. > :05:20.Pedrosa, the customary bump off the line didn't work for him. Stoner
:05:20. > :05:25.having a good look down the inside of his teammate. Casey Stoner
:05:25. > :05:35.disappointed not to get pole position, he said he was held up by
:05:35. > :05:38.
:05:38. > :05:45.traffic. 32 laps down that course, fantastic.
:05:45. > :05:49.That is the most astonishing corner anywhere on the circuit. Just
:05:49. > :05:53.observer two miles the circuit. Back across the stripe for the
:05:53. > :06:00.first time and it's Lorenzo, Stoner and Pedrosa and they're already
:06:00. > :06:05.dropping the rest of the kids off. This is really helping Lorenzo.
:06:05. > :06:09.He's not getting away yet. Stoner is the guy with the pace, it's
:06:09. > :06:15.whether or not he can run it through the rest of the race.
:06:15. > :06:19.They're all saying it's a very dusty track, and offline it's
:06:19. > :06:29.really, really slippery and to pass you have to get offline. So it is
:06:29. > :06:32.
:06:32. > :06:35.going to be tricky. Look at that, Pedrosa right on the
:06:35. > :06:42.back wheel, and Stoner having another look.
:06:42. > :06:48.This is the drag up the hill, it's a monster up and over, blind
:06:48. > :06:54.sighted over the apex and then line up for the Corkscrew again.
:06:54. > :07:04.It is a ten-storey drop from here. You can't see the drop on TV. But
:07:04. > :07:05.
:07:05. > :07:11.it is a monstrous drop. That's the end of Elias on the Pramac. That's
:07:11. > :07:16.all over. Turn 11, and bunching on the corner. This is the best thing
:07:16. > :07:22.they have as a straight, but it's not really straight at all.
:07:22. > :07:27.there's a bend in it and it's very short and with a climb.
:07:27. > :07:35.250 break horse power around this tiny track. It is like having a
:07:35. > :07:43.race horse in your back garden. He won't run his teammate out into
:07:43. > :07:48.the dirt. He's through, now can he work on Lorenzo. One thing might be
:07:48. > :07:58.getting past Lorenzo, then making it stick because Lorenzo has
:07:58. > :08:02.
:08:02. > :08:12.serious pace. We saw it yesterday. Crutchlow is back in sixth.
:08:12. > :08:12.
:08:12. > :08:20.Bird in seventh and Haden back in ninth.
:08:20. > :08:28.-- Hayden. Here's the start. Lorenzo anticipated it fabulous ly
:08:28. > :08:36.well and there you can see already that Crutchlow has been testing a
:08:36. > :08:45.great deal and he's been jumped and he gets tangle up with...It Was the
:08:45. > :08:55.48 there ran him out wide. We'll have another look. It all started
:08:55. > :08:55.
:08:55. > :09:01.with Pirro clipping the back.. was optimistic, and the door has
:09:01. > :09:07.been well and truly slammed. And we work our way through the ride now.
:09:07. > :09:13.This is great stuff from Stoner's bike.
:09:13. > :09:19.A huge crowd here, the biggest I've seen in a while. 64,000 people have
:09:19. > :09:24.turned up this weekend. Back up the hill, climbing,
:09:25. > :09:29.climbing. This corner here is so important to them. Yes, and over
:09:29. > :09:37.the top to the blind part. Temperatures coming up very, very
:09:37. > :09:43.nicely. A full tank of fuel, 21 litres.
:09:43. > :09:47.I'm noticing that the two front guys are running with the harder-
:09:47. > :09:53.option tyre. Stoner is pretty tough on the boots
:09:53. > :10:03.but already they're putting space between themselves and Dani Pedrosa,
:10:03. > :10:10.rapid fire that time. 21.3 for the pair of them. 21.2 for Lorenzo.
:10:11. > :10:17.Really, really quick and they're chipping away. And it's 21.376 was
:10:17. > :10:23.the lap record, but that's already gone. Stoner has the softer tyres
:10:23. > :10:33.on. He wasn't sure what he would run. But a new lap record for Jorge
:10:33. > :10:40.
:10:40. > :10:50.race, they'll need it. It's such a busy track and quite abrasive with
:10:50. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:56.all the sand on it. Casey Stoner trying to get past Jorge Lorenzo,
:10:56. > :11:06.the 2010 champion. And Lorenzo has a nice cushion in
:11:06. > :11:12.the championship at the moment. Stoner looks the fastest to me at
:11:12. > :11:20.the moment. Yeah, it's just whether or not he can make this last or run
:11:20. > :11:26.out of boots before the end and we saw him sucked off the strategic at
:11:26. > :11:36.the German circuit, the stacksen ring, and he lost it at the end.
:11:36. > :11:49.
:11:49. > :11:54.yesterday puncturing one of the air fences. And Ben Spies has a cracked
:11:54. > :12:04.heel that he's limping around on at the moment. It's been a crash-fest
:12:04. > :12:06.
:12:06. > :12:15.all weekend. Lorenzo and Hayden cracked in the
:12:15. > :12:23.warm-up. And Hayden had a break issue as well. There is the plummet
:12:23. > :12:29.down the hill. All the way down to Rainey Curve. It a 200-foot drop in
:12:29. > :12:34.that short distance. That's the Cal Crutchlow crash
:12:34. > :12:39.corner that he had on Friday. It wrecked the bike but he was
:12:39. > :12:48.perfectly OK. He's still in sixth position.
:12:48. > :12:54.These laps are peeling off mighty fast.
:12:54. > :13:01.A tenth of a second separates the two boys at the front.
:13:01. > :13:10.That's the run for fourth, fifth, and sixth. There's Nicky Hayden
:13:10. > :13:20.being followed by Rossi. Nicky Hayden has now qualified before
:13:20. > :13:23.
:13:23. > :13:30.Rossi in the last six races. Still at the front, Stoner all over
:13:30. > :13:40.him, where is he going to pass him? Oh, this looks big, but it's too
:13:40. > :13:49.close. Last year he passed Jorge Lorenzo over the top: Stoner and
:13:49. > :13:54.Rossi had a slamming together a few years back and then Rossi saw
:13:54. > :14:00.Stoner off, it was the beginning of his end that year. He knows Stoner
:14:00. > :14:06.is there, he won't need to look at his lap chart to know it's plus
:14:06. > :14:12.nought. He'll hear him behind him. That was the end of a lovely
:14:12. > :14:15.relationship between Valentino and Stoner.
:14:15. > :14:21.Stoner again having a little sniff. It could be a dive up the inside
:14:21. > :14:27.into this one. That's a popular overtaking place into turn three.
:14:27. > :14:32.But it's so tricky. It's not wide and the line is so precise because
:14:32. > :14:37.it's so slippery offline. You can see the dust on the circuit off
:14:37. > :14:45.line. You can see the difference in the shading of the Tarmac.
:14:45. > :14:49.A lot of tension here. It's a long, hot, hard race. 32 laps, 25
:14:49. > :14:57.remaining. But these guys are athletes out there. They have
:14:57. > :15:06.drinks bottles in their packs. So they will be able to quench their
:15:06. > :15:11.thirst a little bit. They have special valve systems on
:15:11. > :15:17.the bottles, they're called camel packs. Pedrosa responding to the
:15:17. > :15:21.early pace of the front two, Lorenzo and Stoner. Stoner gave it
:15:21. > :15:31.everything he had. And everyone gets to their feet as they pass
:15:31. > :15:36.them. 260ks, way short of the 200 miles an hour we see on the longer-
:15:37. > :15:45.straight circuits. It's such a short, fiddly circuit. And if
:15:45. > :15:50.you're saying he is riding with a crushed heel he must be in agony.
:15:50. > :15:57.He told me on the press conference that a lot of weight was off his
:15:57. > :16:03.shoulders and he doesn't have to hold that pressure from the factree
:16:03. > :16:08.team, Yamaha -- the factory team, Yamaha now. And he said the
:16:08. > :16:15.pressure was off. This is a three-man championship in
:16:15. > :16:25.terms of who is going to win it. You're riding with the leader now,
:16:25. > :16:28.
:16:28. > :16:34.Lorenzo. Through Rainey Curve there, fast,
:16:34. > :16:39.downhill. And this is the right- hander. It's a peculiar corner and
:16:39. > :16:49.if you get offline it's butchy. Stoner takes the wider line, will
:16:49. > :16:50.
:16:50. > :16:57.he cut back inside? Le The great thing about
:16:57. > :17:04.motorcycles is they can get close behind. There are no aerodynamics,
:17:04. > :17:10.and they can get close in the slip stream but they have to get out of
:17:10. > :17:14.the corners. They could have DRS on motorbikes.
:17:14. > :17:20.The leader has to be told to sit upright.
:17:20. > :17:27.None of that in MotoGP. When the lights go out it's whoever can ride
:17:27. > :17:33.the fastest and hardest and look after your tyres. How many times
:17:33. > :17:43.have we seen Cal Crutchlow outclass his teammate, but then get tucked
:17:43. > :17:47.
:17:47. > :17:52.in behind his teammate and then he can't overtake him. And that's
:17:52. > :18:00.Dovizoiso. There was definitely a missed apex
:18:00. > :18:10.from Ben Spies. A lot of people think they sit on these motorbikes,
:18:10. > :18:13.
:18:13. > :18:23.but they don't, they stand on them. Watch these two, there's nothing in
:18:23. > :18:23.
:18:23. > :18:29.the performance. I think Ben Spies is in trouble. If he's in pain he
:18:29. > :18:34.won't be as agile and jumping around to get the bike to turn
:18:34. > :18:39.through the corners. But still a great race for fourth position.
:18:39. > :18:45.And these boys are running in the 22s, the lead three are running in
:18:45. > :18:54.the 21s, still. . They're getting tripped up a bit
:18:54. > :19:00.here by Ben Spies, who is a little slower in places.
:19:00. > :19:08.James Ellison having a good ride in 16th. From Colin Edwards down in
:19:08. > :19:15.18th. I don't know what all that's about.
:19:15. > :19:21.Interestingly with Collins he said he was perched too high on the bike
:19:21. > :19:27.so he removed some cushions. And now he feels like he's inside it.
:19:27. > :19:35.But it's not doing him any good at the moment. We had a wild-card
:19:35. > :19:43.rider this weekend, but he failed to qualify. Steve Rapp was on the
:19:43. > :19:48.cards, but he failed to get inside the qualifying time.
:19:49. > :19:58.It seems he's got the bike exactly where he wants, Jorge Lorenzo and
:19:59. > :20:02.
:20:02. > :20:10.he's not under immediate threat. Le there's the face hplt.
:20:10. > :20:15.At the moment he is doing his best in staying in front of Valentino
:20:15. > :20:22.Rossi. Hayden has put in his fastest lap.
:20:22. > :20:26.And he's closed in on the battle for fourth place.
:20:26. > :20:32.Le Rossi really struggled this weekend and hasn't been able to get
:20:32. > :20:39.the pace. He says he can't get any feel from the front of the Ducati.
:20:39. > :20:44.Yes, he said when ever I try to push to get speed out of it,
:20:44. > :20:51.nothing happens. Yes, and they tried lots of
:20:51. > :20:58.different chassis settings and engine settings. They think they
:20:58. > :21:04.work ed out an improvement, but then unfortunately Rossi crashed so
:21:04. > :21:13.the test driver had to twn the next tests.
:21:13. > :21:19.What has Lorenzo done? He's dropped down to a 21.6.43.
:21:19. > :21:29.What's happened is he's maintained the pace but Stoner and Pedrosa
:21:29. > :21:29.
:21:29. > :21:33.have dropped back into the 22s. Oh, My goodness.
:21:33. > :21:39.That was Pedrosa getting it all crossed up at that point. The
:21:40. > :21:46.Yamaha looks on rails. And look at the different riding styles. When
:21:46. > :21:55.you watch Pedrosa he's leaping around and is exciting to watch,
:21:55. > :21:58.whereas Lorenzo is much smoother. Le oh, Pasini has had all sorts of
:21:58. > :22:06.troubles all weekend. But he was running at the wrong end of the
:22:06. > :22:16.field. Through the left-hand and let's
:22:16. > :22:16.
:22:16. > :22:21.watch this gap. Once again, 21.7. OK, sown Stoner has responded a
:22:21. > :22:26.little. He's back to 21s. But Jorge has put more than half a second on
:22:26. > :22:33.them. Yes, I think it's interesting, because I think Stoner can close
:22:33. > :22:38.the gap down, but can Pedrosa come with him? Stoner has gone for the
:22:39. > :22:48.softer rear tyre and pedyosia has gone for the harder - Pedrosa has
:22:49. > :22:49.
:22:49. > :22:53.gone for the harder of the two. And Pedrosa had probably hoped to
:22:53. > :23:03.get in front at the beginning, and use it to be advantage, because the
:23:03. > :23:21.
:23:21. > :23:26.softer tyre would get up to Rossi said he'd hope to run with.
:23:26. > :23:32.He knew he couldn't run with the lead three, and this was the
:23:32. > :23:37.benchmark, but it's not working for him. No, because Nicky Hayden is
:23:37. > :23:47.tagging in there. And you can see the gap with Rossi coming round the
:23:47. > :23:59.
:23:59. > :24:05.final right-hand before turn 11 now. Stefan Bradle has moved up to
:24:05. > :24:11.MotoGP means it is the first time he's raced here. Yes, he came over
:24:11. > :24:18.here in May and got a road bike out and joined the track day. I imagine
:24:18. > :24:28.he scared the living daylights out of everybody! But he came and
:24:28. > :24:36.learned the track which would help in the first practice session.
:24:36. > :24:43.I bet Stefan's eyes were on strings the first time.
:24:43. > :24:49.Well, Jorge Lorenzo just keeping those flat tyres constantly fast
:24:49. > :24:53.but the laps are coming down all the time. He's just so consistent
:24:53. > :24:59.that guy. He keeps the tyres in good shape and he's good at nailing
:24:59. > :25:03.lap after lap, which is difficult when leading a race like that.
:25:04. > :25:07.He has an onboard timer and that's what a rateser will do in a race
:25:07. > :25:17.like this, just keep talking to himself.
:25:17. > :25:21.
:25:21. > :25:25.Lovely to see Wayne here. He was a winner in '89, '9 1 and many others.
:25:26. > :25:29.His career was cut short after a crash in Italy, but if you look at
:25:29. > :25:37.the statistics he's the most successful rider of all times in
:25:37. > :25:42.terms of the number of starts and number of podiums.
:25:42. > :25:48.It's great to see a lot of the stars here. It's a classic weekend.
:25:48. > :25:55.Yeah, very much so. Some of the greats from the past come here.
:25:55. > :26:00.What we saw there was a real bit of head and shoulders between Nicky
:26:00. > :26:06.Hayden and Stefan Bradle. But Yamaha in particular bring all
:26:07. > :26:14.the old names out here. I've seen Eddie Lawson, and Kenny Roberts.
:26:14. > :26:18.And Stevie Baker, one of the great Canadian riders, in fact I'm with
:26:18. > :26:25.him at Donington Park for the classic meeting there. You have a
:26:25. > :26:35.terrible life. Don't I just! There's Bill Hayden who runs a
:26:35. > :26:42.
:26:42. > :26:52.company called Second Chance Arnold's. So if you want a car....
:26:52. > :27:08.
:27:08. > :27:14.Well, the pain killer must have something this weekend. It was
:27:14. > :27:21.important for him to demonstrate to Yamaha that although he was
:27:21. > :27:28.probably getting signals from him that they didn't need him any more,
:27:28. > :27:34.they still want to hang on to him.There's The boss with the
:27:34. > :27:44.chequebook. The half-race distance and there is number 46, Valentino
:27:44. > :27:45.
:27:45. > :27:49.Rossi still circulating. Ellison in 15th. Nicky Hayden has
:27:49. > :27:56.won here twice don't forget. A great rider and knows this circuit
:27:56. > :28:01.very well. It's a battle all the way. It's
:28:01. > :28:08.peculiar the way they just don't seem to be able to get the Ducati
:28:08. > :28:11.to give the riders good feelings. They've gone from carbon fibre to
:28:11. > :28:17.aluminium frame. Trying to do everything to give the rider the
:28:18. > :28:23.confidence to push the bike to the limit. The engine is a lot
:28:24. > :28:28.different to the others, but they have to work it out to get good
:28:28. > :28:38.throttle control. It's all about the connection between the throttle
:28:38. > :28:39.
:28:39. > :28:45.and the rear tyre. Jorge Lorenzo finds the limit when
:28:45. > :28:52.dropping down the Corkscrew. Two laps in a row we've seen the
:28:52. > :29:00.Honda tie itself in knots. You would think that with 15 laps
:29:00. > :29:05.remaining that softer rear tyre would have passed its heyday.
:29:05. > :29:12.They're trying to say to Lorenzo that you've got the gap and just
:29:12. > :29:19.try and break it. He's probably now trying to nail
:29:19. > :29:27.three fast laps to break Stoner. He just fired is over the top there.
:29:27. > :29:33.He ran in second, which is arguably a too high gear. Casey Stoner would
:29:34. > :29:39.have seen that, and seen a little bit of blood there and may be just
:29:39. > :29:43.trying to close the gap down again. As you change direction at that
:29:43. > :29:48.point the wheels are virtually off the ground.
:29:49. > :29:52.Watch again, this is where Stoner has been having difficulty. That
:29:52. > :29:58.looked easier. But the front end of that bike has not looked
:29:58. > :30:02.comfortable. That's it, though. As you said, he
:30:02. > :30:10.is now getting excited, Stoner has taken less than half a second out
:30:10. > :30:16.of it. So that's close. And Pedrosa has had to give best to these two,
:30:16. > :30:26.he's a couple of seconds down the road now. So it will be a showdown
:30:26. > :30:29.
:30:29. > :30:36.between the 2010 and 2011 champions. And Casey Stoner has now seen that
:30:36. > :30:42.Jorge is on the limit. 157 kilograms and 250 break horse power.
:30:42. > :30:52.They are rockets and trying to keep them on the ground, it's all very
:30:52. > :31:14.
:31:14. > :31:24.change gear early to keep the front wheel down. This is the point where
:31:24. > :31:26.
:31:26. > :31:31.it goes really light, and whup, that's where it drops away.
:31:31. > :31:34.I think the problem Casey Stoner has is simply trying to pass. It's
:31:34. > :31:38.all very well following someone, but just going offline trying to
:31:38. > :31:46.pass is where it's going to have to happen and it is about getting a
:31:46. > :31:50.run out of a corner, but Lorenzo has such good contraction with the
:31:50. > :31:56.Yamaha it's about the power. You have to be slightly later off the
:31:56. > :32:04.brakes into the next corner. That was a good lap. He's closed right
:32:04. > :32:10.up with Lorenzo there. Nice job!
:32:10. > :32:16.Oh, there's a rider down but I couldn't see who it was.
:32:16. > :32:23.The rescue guys. Oh, dear me. That's Colin Edwards. Oh, James
:32:23. > :32:28.Ellison, rather. I'm sorry. James Ellison, he was actually
:32:28. > :32:33.having a good run at 15th what happened? A locked front. Oh, a
:32:33. > :32:40.fast crash. A very fast crash. Just as he got
:32:40. > :32:45.on the brakes, the front end locked up. Back to the Corkscrew and
:32:45. > :32:50.Stoner is right on the wheel tracks he's got the smell of the exhaust
:32:51. > :32:55.from the Yamaha there. Will he try and get the run out of this next
:32:55. > :32:59.right? This is the passing spot. This is where it makes sense. But
:32:59. > :33:03.this is also where two people crashed this morning in warm-up.
:33:03. > :33:10.It's slippery as you like. Not close enough. There's nothing in it.
:33:10. > :33:16.He's trying to get side-by-side and he did a big pass here before.
:33:16. > :33:22.done it. Can Lorenzo come back or not? That was a popular move.
:33:22. > :33:27.Oh, another brave move there, that's a blind corner at about 160
:33:27. > :33:35.miles an hour over the top of the hill. Stoner has the softer tyre.
:33:35. > :33:42.Has he got the grip? He's got the cahooti Serbs, I can tell you that
:33:42. > :33:48.for nothing! It looked like Jorge missed a gear
:33:48. > :33:54.there, because it was too easy. Now we have to see if that rear
:33:54. > :33:58.tyre of Casey Stoner can hang on in there. There are 11 laps to go.
:33:58. > :34:02.You're riding with Stoner. Do you know what, I think the anti-
:34:02. > :34:07.wheeling system kicked in too much and shut the system down.
:34:07. > :34:13.He's got anti-wheeling systems and traction control. And I think the
:34:13. > :34:18.front end came up too much and as soon as it does, the engine shuts
:34:18. > :34:26.down and Stoner was morals gifted the lead.
:34:26. > :34:31.-- more or less gifted the lead. Another crash. Spies I no, no, no,
:34:31. > :34:39.that can't happen. Another monster crash. Two in two days. I hope he's
:34:39. > :34:43.all right. Out of the Corkscrew. Man, he's tried so hard and look at
:34:43. > :34:47.that bike, the suspension has clasped.
:34:47. > :34:56.Oh, a horrible crash. Not at all pleasant there. Just on the paint
:34:56. > :35:01.on the inside. Listen, did his suspension collapse
:35:01. > :35:06.before that. The rear wheel is jammed up in there as he goes down.
:35:06. > :35:11.We'll need to see that again. It did look like that. I thought
:35:11. > :35:17.he'd got on the paint first. It was weird where it took him.
:35:17. > :35:22.There's the boss. He's seen what we've seen. That was extraordinary.
:35:22. > :35:28.It looked like the swinging arm was way high. So I don't know. We'll
:35:28. > :35:32.have another look and I'm sure we'll find out.
:35:32. > :35:41.Down hill we go through the superfast flowing sweeping corner
:35:41. > :35:51.then the right-hander. Stoner now knows the optimum line out of it.
:35:51. > :35:51.
:35:51. > :35:57.And Casey Stoner has to start winning races, he is 37 points back.
:35:57. > :36:05.This will give him five points back. It's still a big deficit.
:36:05. > :36:14.And we have lapped bikes now here, because it's such a short circuit
:36:15. > :36:21.here. These guys are a full four seconds or three seconds a lap
:36:21. > :36:29.quicker than the boys they've just lapped. Nine laps left. You have to
:36:29. > :36:33.say at the moment Stoner is the fastest. Whether or not Jorge
:36:33. > :36:39.Lorenzo is just going to bide his time and stay in touch and see what
:36:39. > :36:49.he can do on the final lap? many times have we seen that man do
:36:49. > :36:52.
:36:52. > :36:58.well in CRT. Espargaro has been giving a lot of
:36:58. > :37:06.pressure to his teammate. He's tenth on the road. Good stuff.
:37:06. > :37:16.on the ART, a brilliant racing team you can purchase these for 1.2
:37:16. > :37:40.
:37:40. > :37:50.place at the moment. Here's Bradle and Hayden. Bradle on
:37:50. > :37:52.
:37:52. > :37:58.a Honda and Hayden on the Ducati. Bradle is sixth, Hayden is seventh.
:37:58. > :38:05.How often have we seen these two sychronised. It's almost like a
:38:05. > :38:11.demonstration. They're so close. Who ever gets to turn one first out
:38:11. > :38:19.of the pair of them they seem to stay that way in the race. There
:38:19. > :38:22.are slightly different riding styles, though.
:38:22. > :38:29.Britain's Cal Crutchlow from Coventry and now living on the Isle
:38:29. > :38:39.of Man. Lele tl would be nice to see that
:38:39. > :38:39.
:38:39. > :38:49.incident again. We may not find out before the end of the race because
:38:49. > :38:57.
:38:57. > :39:02.I don't think they'll get the bike last year and currently just having
:39:02. > :39:09.a horrible year down in tenth place at the moment and he won't get any
:39:09. > :39:14.more points today. That looks like Nicky Hayden could
:39:14. > :39:22.finish in the top six, that would be no mean feat at all. And I tell
:39:22. > :39:27.you what, this is such Ducati country they just love them here.
:39:27. > :39:36.There's a Ducati island here in the middle of the circuit. They just
:39:36. > :39:44.love them. It's the Honda we ride with.
:39:44. > :39:54.There's the lead. A slide from Casey Stoner, but he has lots of
:39:54. > :40:02.
:40:02. > :40:09.weather here! Oh, terrible. 24 degrees.
:40:09. > :40:16.I'd love it here, if I had a job you could work in the morning and
:40:16. > :40:24.sun bathe in the afternoon? This will be on your head stone "if I
:40:24. > :40:29.had a job!" Stoner is on the high-consumption
:40:29. > :40:35.tyre. Absolutely and he will be trying to preserve as much grip as
:40:35. > :40:40.he can, but he has less than a second advantage over Lorenzo.
:40:40. > :40:46.Every time he comes out of there he twitches on the bumps at the top of
:40:46. > :40:51.the hill. The Yamaha doesn't seem to. It looks happier. But Casey has
:40:51. > :40:56.not been happy with the chassis on the Honda this year. They've tried
:40:56. > :41:01.to work it out and he says it's not the bike he had last year and the
:41:01. > :41:08.reason is Bridgestone changed the tyres. Look at him slithering and
:41:08. > :41:18.sliding through there. It's not riding, it's crisis management. I
:41:18. > :41:20.
:41:20. > :41:26.reckon Lorenzo is coming back. The attitude says "return to the front"
:41:26. > :41:31.0.718 last time round so it has actually stretched a francs out.
:41:31. > :41:41.He's very much quicker through the bottom section of the circuit. And
:41:41. > :41:42.
:41:42. > :41:47.bear in mind Lorenzo stole pole last time out.
:41:47. > :41:54.That's a beautiful colour and movement shot. It's like being on a
:41:54. > :42:04.big dipper! Over the top they get flung out of
:42:04. > :42:14.the seat. From that parade of bikes you saw Spies is out, Ellison is
:42:14. > :42:28.
:42:28. > :42:32.into the track. This is Stoner looking concerned --
:42:32. > :42:38.Mrs Stoner looking concerned. They are probably over here for a
:42:38. > :42:48.holiday, so it would be nice if her man won.
:42:48. > :42:50.
:42:50. > :42:53.Last time round it was.741. It's now 1.1 so he has the hammer down.
:42:53. > :42:59.Jorge Lorenzo, if he hasn't got anything left he will be more than
:42:59. > :43:06.happy to finish second. He gets 20 points for that. Pedrosa will get
:43:06. > :43:14.16 for third. But most important, Stoner will get the maximum bag
:43:14. > :43:24.with 25 points but he will still be at a disadvantage of 32 points for
:43:24. > :43:35.
:43:35. > :43:40.the championship. And that's really interesting.
:43:40. > :43:46.Head rose is on a circuit that I think doesn't really suit him
:43:46. > :43:56.because he's such a small guy. hasn't got the lovage for the
:43:56. > :44:12.
:44:12. > :44:22.hanging on there. Nice job, top six for Nicky Hayden.
:44:22. > :44:29.
:44:29. > :44:33.Now, Cal Crutchlow what can he do about that teammate? It is terrific
:44:33. > :44:39.formation riding from these two, Cal is the least experience. It's
:44:39. > :44:43.only his second time here. Yeah, but it is such a really tricky
:44:43. > :44:52.track. It's more different from the average sickity that just about
:44:52. > :44:59.anywhere else we go. Crutchlow and Dovizoiso.
:44:59. > :45:03.Crutchlow has the magnets on and he's groping around and get back in
:45:03. > :45:10.line but Dovizoiso is, Crutchlow trying to get side-by-side and
:45:10. > :45:17.can't quite carry the speed. We saw this, if you remember, before Cal
:45:17. > :45:27.went off at the Sachsenring, Dovizoiso just leaves it to the
:45:27. > :45:30.
:45:30. > :45:36.last point and then manages to get a lot of power break. This is where
:45:37. > :45:43.it kills him because this is a classic overtake spot but that's
:45:43. > :45:51.where Dovizoiso is ungetable, if you like. Oh, my goodness me.
:45:51. > :46:00.Valentino Rossi, the man who has finished in the points every time
:46:00. > :46:05.this year, but not today. He's looking for his bike! His airbag
:46:05. > :46:13.has fully expanded there. And Rossi is looking around. That was going
:46:13. > :46:20.into the Corkscrew. Oh, he crashed before that. Look at that. Oh, my
:46:20. > :46:26.goodness me. Another couple of hundred grands' worth of damage
:46:26. > :46:32.there. Happily, Valentino is walking away interest that. He had
:46:32. > :46:39.such a big crash in practice they had the flags out for about 45
:46:39. > :46:45.minutes because he blew a hole in the safety walls.
:46:45. > :46:52.Two laps remaining. It looks like Stoner. But he's
:46:52. > :46:58.crashed from here before now. Lorenzo has obviously decided "I'm
:46:58. > :47:07.going to button it off now." He hasn't lost his way but he's just
:47:07. > :47:14.decided he has a huge buffer he is let Stoner get away with it, and
:47:14. > :47:19.he'll only lose five points. Stoner is always on the inside part
:47:19. > :47:24.of the curve there. And there never is the same amount of grip. He is
:47:24. > :47:30.such a master at nicking a little bit of paint on the inside and
:47:30. > :47:40.making the corner wider. He has this lovely gap now he can cruise
:47:40. > :47:45.this last lap. This time last year, Stoner
:47:45. > :47:51.qualified second and beat Lorenzo and who came third? Pedrosa.
:47:51. > :47:59.the pass took place at exactly the same place on the track.
:47:59. > :48:04.Down luing Rainey Curve for the last time. -- through.
:48:04. > :48:09.The last corner, the last turn. that's the tyre he qualified on,
:48:09. > :48:14.what an event. Head down, observe are the shoulder. Yeah, you've got
:48:14. > :48:20.it. Casey stoner, he might have been cross about qualifying, but
:48:20. > :48:27.he's smoked them here in California. Lorenzo, a smart ride for him. He
:48:27. > :48:32.knew when he had to let it go. And Pedrosa in third place, and come on
:48:32. > :48:39.Cal, can't quite do it. A great race from the pair of them. Good
:48:39. > :48:49.guys, fourth and fifth. And Nicky Hayden, in the top six for the
:48:49. > :48:49.
:48:49. > :48:54.local boy on a Ducati. Bradle just came in second place. I
:48:54. > :49:04.can't believe Valentino had that crash. He's crashing more than he
:49:04. > :49:06.
:49:06. > :49:11.used to which shows how committed he is. Le Valentino Rossi's crash
:49:11. > :49:17.was on the brakes before he got to the kark screw. Yeah, and the bike
:49:18. > :49:25.also is light when you start that braking. You're up over the crystal
:49:25. > :49:35.hill. A burst of emotion from the boss of Honda. They're doing such a
:49:35. > :49:39.
:49:39. > :49:43.fantastic job here. And Aleix Espargaro finishes ninth outright.
:49:43. > :49:49.A few Aussies in the crowd here and that is a very, very good job here.
:49:49. > :49:55.He was on the same lap, that's good going. That is astonishing that
:49:55. > :50:00.that tyre held out. He was actually saying, Jorge, that I don't really
:50:00. > :50:07.like the hard tyre I prefer the soft and Stoner was saying the
:50:07. > :50:16.reverse. But they've changed their mind.
:50:16. > :50:26.Wayne Rainy lives two miles from the track. He's a dab hand at
:50:26. > :50:27.
:50:27. > :50:34.supercar b racing. Pedrosa, a useful ride. He's still second in
:50:34. > :50:40.the world. And the points are closed down from Casey Stoner's
:50:40. > :50:47.point of view. And the top speed less than 270ks. That's 170 miles
:50:48. > :50:54.an hour. Yes, that's on the blind crest of a
:50:54. > :51:03.hill. Yes, with a qualifying tyre that he made last the laps. I
:51:03. > :51:09.really, really am desperate for you -, ah, look, he's giving his
:51:09. > :51:15.teammate a ride home. Rossi gets a ride home while they
:51:15. > :51:23.dig is bike out of the bunker. Jorge really flew the flag for
:51:23. > :51:28.Yamaha and it's exactly as last year. 37 wins now for Casey Stoner.
:51:28. > :51:35.How many more before the end of the year? I can't believe he's going to
:51:35. > :51:44.retire. He says he's not having fun!
:51:44. > :51:52.And he's only 26 years old. amazing record. Look at Valentino
:51:52. > :52:00.and the state of his shoulder. Nice one from Nicky Hayden. They're
:52:00. > :52:09.desperate to support him. Yeah, well, he's a smart man this guy. An
:52:09. > :52:15.intellectual man and he scored 20 points. How do you know? Because I
:52:15. > :52:20.know other intellectual people! Well, it keeps it all interesting
:52:20. > :52:24.it tilts the tables in Honda's favour. There are a lot of Honda
:52:24. > :52:29.supporters here. There's a whole field there that leapt to their
:52:29. > :52:34.feet. And there's the baby, give her a kiss. Yesterday, he was
:52:34. > :52:40.spitting blood about the qualifying. Now he's happy. Is he OK? Body
:52:40. > :52:46.language, please? Body is OK, but he will be disappointed crashing
:52:46. > :52:49.out in tenth position. I reckon that was 125 miles an hour that he
:52:49. > :52:53.hit the ground. That's extraordinary locking up the front
:52:53. > :52:59.going into a corner like that. Most peculiar. But it is light there.
:52:59. > :53:05.does go light there and he says he has to feel. And that really is a
:53:05. > :53:11.nasty crash. The bike was barely lent observer. The problem for
:53:11. > :53:18.Rossi in a crash like that, but that's a confidence knocker, that
:53:18. > :53:23.crash. If you lock the front up going into a corner you're never
:53:23. > :53:32.too sure what you have grit-wise on a corner and it will take him a
:53:33. > :53:41.long while to get observer that. Yes, he will be scratching his head
:53:41. > :53:47.over that. Now, what happens with this one? Yeah, I think you're
:53:47. > :53:57.right. Casey Stoner, congratulations on
:53:57. > :54:01.the win. Were you waiting for the moment tactically to pass Lorenzo?
:54:01. > :54:07.We were waiting for it one of the option, and I had to be gentle on
:54:07. > :54:12.the gas and make it last. I wanted to get to the front immediately to
:54:12. > :54:20.see if we could pull the gap. Jorge was riding strong, fast lines and
:54:20. > :54:25.if you get offline here it's slippery so I decided to drop back
:54:25. > :54:30.and take a few laps on my tyres and ease them down, they were getting a
:54:30. > :54:35.bit warmment and after that I picked slowly back up into the
:54:35. > :54:41.rhythm and hunting yrg yorg down from then on and tried to find a
:54:41. > :54:45.way past. We're very, very happy. - - Jorge. We decided to run a
:54:45. > :54:54.different strategy to everyone else today and it was another great one.
:54:54. > :55:01.Well done. Thank you. And that, my friends, likes as
:55:01. > :55:09.though that is what is going on. They're cooling down the tyres
:55:09. > :55:17.there's so much to it. If the tyre has the grit then you're happy with
:55:17. > :55:23.it. It's no good having a hard tyre with no grip at the start.
:55:23. > :55:28.Jorge Lorenzo was really, really competitive on the hard tyre at the
:55:28. > :55:35.end. So I guess it surprised him seeing Stoner pass.
:55:35. > :55:43.Jorge, did you think you had that one in the bag. Yeah, I tried my
:55:43. > :55:51.best at the beginning and I did it, but I made a mistake on the skork
:55:51. > :55:55.screw and -- Corkscrew and Casey was a big motivation because he got
:55:55. > :56:01.me on one lap, half a second and after that I couldn't keep the pace
:56:01. > :56:06.I was doing at the beginning. Maybe the soft tyre in this race was the
:56:06. > :56:13.best option. But without a doubt, today Casey ride in excellent form
:56:13. > :56:20.and it was impossible to beat him. Congratulations on the podium.
:56:20. > :56:27.Thank you. Yes, Stoner found that moment.
:56:27. > :56:33.this guy saw it all as well. Pedrosa, third again. Catscats,
:56:33. > :56:39.Dani, what was the difference -- congratulations Dani, what was the
:56:39. > :56:45.difference between you and the front two today? It was surprising.
:56:45. > :56:50.I'd say tyre choice. The soft was the most risky one. It surprised me
:56:50. > :56:55.a lot at the start but I was confident on my tyre choice so we
:56:55. > :57:01.had a good beginning of the race. When he passed me I tried to keep
:57:01. > :57:07.calm because I knew he was on soft. A little later I had a big moment
:57:07. > :57:12.and after that I lost some ground. I tried to pick back up and I had
:57:12. > :57:17.many other front losses. I was just on the edge not to finish this race.
:57:17. > :57:20.Any way, I didn't want to finish and I pushed myself to the maximum
:57:20. > :57:26.but today, with Casey being so stronger there was nothing else to
:57:26. > :57:33.do. I tried my best and this was it. So today I had nothing else and I
:57:33. > :57:38.hope I can keep focused for the next one and try. Thank you.
:57:38. > :57:41.Congratulations. Yeah, it was a very good ride and
:57:41. > :57:46.once again near misses, near accidents really affected their
:57:46. > :57:52.thinking. As we heard, Lorenzo had a moment and that gave Stoner
:57:52. > :58:02.encouragement. Similarly that massive moment down through turn
:58:02. > :58:09.ten, Pedrosa buttoned it off. Big smiles down here. Charlie
:58:09. > :58:14.congratulations. Yeah, I'm really happy after the last two or three
:58:14. > :58:19.races I was not really compatible with the bike. I cannot win the 30
:58:19. > :58:25.class but today the race was really good. At the beginning I start
:58:26. > :58:32.really, really good and had a good pace, but the final round take me
:58:32. > :58:42.but I'm really happy to win again. There is Ducati island in the
:58:42. > :58:52.middle of the circuit. For people who don't follow MotoGP,
:58:52. > :58:58.there are different teir bikes in the race. And you can still finish
:58:58. > :59:02.in the top ten. Here is that pass. That was
:59:02. > :59:08.phenomenal the way the Honda went past and I'm sure that was
:59:08. > :59:14.something to do with engine management. It was a big, big pass
:59:14. > :59:24.and he made it stick and I'm still astounded how the tyre held on.
:59:24. > :59:34.This is another run of it. A big race and really interesting for the