:01:49. > :01:54.The countdown to the final race of the season is upon us. Welcome to
:01:54. > :01:59.Valencia and another memorable year of MotoGP. The title has already
:02:00. > :02:04.been decided in favour of Jorge Lorenzo. It is a case of the
:02:05. > :02:14.shackles being off today. The battle for fifth is still very much
:02:15. > :02:17.
:02:17. > :02:27.salvage something from a disaster has two years at it Ducati before
:02:27. > :02:30.Another big gamble from the Italian as he steps back into the garage
:02:30. > :02:40.owned by a double world champion and the greatest Spanish rider of
:02:40. > :03:04.
:03:04. > :03:12.Congratulations, coming back to Spain as world champion and the
:03:12. > :03:22.greatest Spanish rider in the premier class. How does it feel? I
:03:22. > :03:25.
:03:25. > :03:29.am proud of. I have got even more satisfaction. The looking back over
:03:29. > :03:39.the season it seems there was a real confidence about you and the
:03:39. > :03:45.am a have? Yes. Compared to last year our performance and activity,
:03:45. > :03:51.from the beginning we saw that we wanted more. We were closer to the
:03:51. > :04:00.other guys. Much closer than previously. We felt that something
:04:00. > :04:09.could be done. From the first six late -- races, a 25 point League.
:04:09. > :04:16.Then it is suddenly cut right out. I finished second or third in the
:04:16. > :04:23.qualifying, but then on Sunday 100 or 200 metres later I finished on
:04:23. > :04:33.the ground. I did not understand what was happening. Her I thought I
:04:33. > :04:41.was dreaming. The bike was on fire, so I ran. What was going through
:04:41. > :04:46.your head? The championship is over. No points. I thought, the
:04:46. > :04:50.championship is over. One of the most impressive things about you is
:04:50. > :04:59.your mental strength throughout the seasons. How do you keep so strong
:04:59. > :05:07.mentally? Firstly, learning from experience. Learning from the past.
:05:07. > :05:17.I got into MotoGP in 2008, and I was fast from the beginning. But I
:05:17. > :05:20.
:05:20. > :05:26.crashed many times. I made a lot of mistakes from not knowing my limit.
:05:26. > :05:32.In 2009 Valentino was very strong. Maybe I could not fight more with
:05:33. > :05:37.him for the championship. Then I started to know my limit. You do
:05:37. > :05:42.not have to play for the championship, so I guess you can go
:05:42. > :05:52.for it this weekend? It is not the same to compete without the
:05:52. > :05:55.
:05:55. > :06:03.pressure of the world championship. You do not have any pressure.
:06:03. > :06:06.Hopefully a great race this weekend. I think so. Casey Stoner, for sure
:06:06. > :06:16.he will try to leave these championships in the best way
:06:16. > :06:19.
:06:19. > :06:28.possible. For me, I have nothing to lose and I would like to fight for
:06:28. > :06:32.a win. Good luck in the race. pressure really off the top three.
:06:32. > :06:40.Not just those three, with the conditions we have got, there could
:06:40. > :06:44.be a few surprises at the front. is going to be very difficult.
:06:44. > :06:53.People will be praying for it not to be dry because they are really
:06:53. > :06:58.struggling. Valentino Rossi was right up there in the last race.
:06:58. > :07:08.is horrible. The guys will be looking into the sky trying to
:07:08. > :07:09.
:07:09. > :07:15.establish what will happen. Fate is in between wet and dry. It would be
:07:15. > :07:24.a bit cool starting on slicks, winter? There are so many gambles
:07:24. > :07:30.in this weather. One of them his advisers. They have to worry about
:07:30. > :07:37.misting up. This is a double-glazed system that a lot of the helmets
:07:37. > :07:42.have now. A we do not want anyone to come off in the final race of
:07:42. > :07:51.the season. They have all got their own reasons to want to sign off for
:07:51. > :07:57.this race with a victory. His Jorge Lorenzo a worthy champion? I think
:07:57. > :08:02.he has got to prove it to himself. I am sure he is a worthy champion.
:08:02. > :08:06.When your worst result is that the second, then absolutely, he is
:08:06. > :08:14.brilliant. He will not want to spend the winter thinking, I never
:08:14. > :08:21.really got on top of Dani Pedrosa. He wants to take that box. He will
:08:21. > :08:26.also want to look at that position which says first. It has been
:08:26. > :08:33.difficult for him, but today I am looking forward to the race. Local
:08:33. > :08:43.pride at stake as well. The Lorenzo certainly looking relaxed this
:08:43. > :08:43.
:08:43. > :08:48.weekend with the pressure off. There will be more pressure, but
:08:48. > :08:54.truthfully I think Jorge Lorenzo will have the measure of Valentino.
:08:54. > :08:59.I am just trying to work out what he put in your ear! I think he will
:08:59. > :09:04.have the upper hand. He is going to go out there and I believe he will
:09:04. > :09:10.beat Valentino Rossi. It is a gamble for Valentino, it was a
:09:10. > :09:17.gamble for him to go to Ducati, but perhaps a bigger one to go back to
:09:17. > :09:24.the lion's den? Absolutely. If it does not work on a Yamaha, that is
:09:24. > :09:30.down to Valentino. Absolutely. There is no-one else to blame us.
:09:30. > :09:37.Valentino has said countless times, I hope I can do it. We all hope he
:09:37. > :09:43.can do it. He is 39 years old, he has broken his leg, let's hope he
:09:43. > :09:47.has the magic. The conditions are right for him. We changes are
:09:47. > :09:53.coming in next year and in 2014, but there was an announcement last
:09:53. > :10:00.night, it looks like things will be levelled up more for next season.
:10:00. > :10:03.By 2014 there will be just the one class, and really the penalty with
:10:03. > :10:09.the factory teams, if they want to use their own software they have
:10:09. > :10:14.got to go down to 20 litres. Trying to do it on 20 litres will be
:10:14. > :10:19.difficult, plus they will cut back to five engines. The benefit will
:10:19. > :10:26.be people buying motorcycles. Everyone buying motorcycles will
:10:26. > :10:35.benefit from it. We have seen before, Scott Redding getting
:10:35. > :10:41.punished because he is 17 kilos heavier. From next year it is going
:10:41. > :10:49.to be rider and bike combined, that will be fantastic. You have always
:10:49. > :10:53.campaigned for the larger man! is great for Scott Redding because
:10:53. > :11:00.he is a big guy. Dani Pedrosa never had any problems with his weight
:11:00. > :11:05.and put on an excellent performance in qualifying yesterday. He called
:11:05. > :11:10.it the perfect day, and I think that is absolutely fair. He was
:11:10. > :11:16.stunned himself by the time. surface has helped him, but his
:11:16. > :11:20.form in the latter part of the year, you have got to feel for him. I
:11:20. > :11:25.think the championship would have come down to this race if he had
:11:25. > :11:31.not fallen off. What he does not want to be is the best rider never
:11:31. > :11:37.to have been world champion. Dani Pedrosa will look to sign off with
:11:37. > :11:43.a win, and so will Casey Stoner. If you're a Valentino Rossi fan it
:11:43. > :11:53.would be when number 46 for Casey Stoner, but it was when number 45 a
:11:53. > :11:56.
:11:56. > :12:03.that put the shine on a MotoGP Looking back on your MotoGP career,
:12:03. > :12:08.you could not have planned it much better. Retiring after six years
:12:08. > :12:12.with two World Championships. can always envisioned things going
:12:13. > :12:20.a little differently. I would have hoped to to have had more success
:12:20. > :12:25.than what we did. I can safely say I am proud of my career, of what
:12:25. > :12:35.myself and my team have done. In such a short time we have achieved
:12:35. > :12:36.
:12:36. > :12:46.a lot. What is your strongest memory of Casey Stoner's MotoGP
:12:46. > :12:47.
:12:47. > :12:56.career? The first race he won. Different bike, it different tyre,
:12:56. > :13:02.everything was new. But for him it was no problem. And then the two
:13:02. > :13:09.titles. One was a really special feeling for me because when we had
:13:09. > :13:14.the chance to move to MotoGP with him we arrived at the first race...
:13:14. > :13:21.We had flights delayed twice. jumped in my car and we drove
:13:21. > :13:28.quickly while he put on his leather and had a coffee. I went straight
:13:28. > :13:34.out on the bike. I was first to second quickest. For my first time
:13:35. > :13:42.to be in MotoGP as a team manager, it was a really special feeling.
:13:42. > :13:47.was an eventful week to get there. It helped us at that point macro to
:13:47. > :13:52.take a little bit of the fear away and go out and ride the bike. There
:13:52. > :13:56.were some tough times that year. What was the biggest thing you
:13:56. > :14:01.learnt from your rookie season? not trust people who have more
:14:01. > :14:07.experience just because they have more experience. We always looked
:14:07. > :14:11.at these people who had so many years of experience, people we were
:14:11. > :14:17.working with four other people we had to deal with. They always made
:14:17. > :14:22.you feel so small and did the -- insignificant. We had to trust them.
:14:22. > :14:28.We did not know a lot and were not hugely experienced. That was my
:14:28. > :14:34.biggest downfall that year. When I finally got to Ducati and finally
:14:34. > :14:42.had people believing in me, having faith in me, listening to what I
:14:42. > :14:47.was saying, that is when my career flourished and made me trust myself.
:14:47. > :14:57.What was it like to have him alongside him in the garage? It was
:14:57. > :14:59.
:14:59. > :15:05.difficult sometimes. He came to Ducati in 2007. I still struggled
:15:05. > :15:12.at that time, but when you stopped in the pit, he always said, the
:15:12. > :15:17.bike it is perfect. I would say the same about Casey Stoner. Sometimes
:15:17. > :15:21.he would make you scratch your head in the first hour of practice. But
:15:21. > :15:28.his strength to me was always to find the limit. He is so quick to
:15:28. > :15:36.get to the limit no matter what the condition of the track is.
:15:36. > :15:42.Definitely sometimes he makes you What has been the biggest change in
:15:42. > :15:45.Casey Stoner between 2006 and 2012? Believing in myself and having the
:15:45. > :15:50.right people around me. I always think I can be better and the bike
:15:50. > :15:56.can be set up better. A lot of people take this as a negative,
:15:56. > :16:00.that I'm complaining, but it is just striving to be better. He has
:16:00. > :16:08.always been very straight will square. There was no weight to
:16:08. > :16:12.persuade him -- no way to persuade him it was either yes or no. This
:16:12. > :16:16.year, my last season, I'm still learning things that I have been
:16:16. > :16:22.trying to learn for so many years, and may have clicked this year. It
:16:22. > :16:27.has made the riding a lot easier. We have grown in the right
:16:27. > :16:32.direction and in the right way. I now have a family, so I think I've
:16:33. > :16:39.taken a new direction. Any thoughts for your long-term plans since she
:16:39. > :16:46.announced your decision to retire? -- since your announced. No long-
:16:46. > :16:50.term plans. But I am willing to decide to stick to something, but
:16:50. > :17:00.first I want to take some time off and then look at the options, and
:17:00. > :17:02.
:17:02. > :17:06.then we will see what direction Taking Casey Stoner's team place is
:17:06. > :17:14.a youngster with all the potential to match or surpassed his
:17:14. > :17:22.achievements, Mark Markes, who made alright preparations by wrapping up
:17:22. > :17:27.the title in MotoGP 2. We also have Bradley Smith stepping up as well.
:17:27. > :17:37.A few moments away from the riders last chance to add to their list of
:17:37. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:53.Valentino Rossi is going to go across! Cal Crutchlow going for his
:17:53. > :17:54.
:17:54. > :18:02.We had many good memories, but Barcelona was really important. It
:18:02. > :18:07.was a fast race. It was good. think the first top five was very
:18:07. > :18:13.nice for us. Basically it was the first time in the wet for me on
:18:13. > :18:23.this bike and I managed the situation really good, so it was
:18:23. > :18:31.fantastic to finish in 5th. When I won the race in Bremen. Danny but
:18:31. > :18:41.Rose gets De Wijn in the Czech Republic! -- Dani Pedrosa. -- gets
:18:41. > :18:42.
:18:42. > :18:52.Second place. It was a great race, especially in front of all of my
:18:52. > :18:53.
:18:53. > :18:58.fans in Italy at my own to -- at my Especially after a tough time when
:18:58. > :19:06.there was only a few races left to notch up another win, and we manage
:19:06. > :19:14.to do it. It was a fairy-tale. Probably my front row in at Jerez
:19:14. > :19:20.to. This is surely going to get him onto the front row. Nicky Hayden.
:19:20. > :19:26.All the other match, not a lot to smile about. -- other than that.
:19:26. > :19:36.The race in Jerez was a good race, I don't expect to go so well but we
:19:36. > :19:36.
:19:36. > :19:44.finished 1.4 seconds off the winner, so not a bad job. That is not
:19:44. > :19:54.actually my passport, is it? Where did you get that from? Unbelievable.
:19:54. > :19:57.
:19:57. > :20:00.That is genuinely my passport. I'm not sure I want to speak to Cal
:20:00. > :20:09.Crutchlow on the last race, but here we are at the front of the
:20:09. > :20:15.grid, Danny Pedro's or -- Dani Pedrosa or -- he was the winner
:20:15. > :20:24.last season. Grey skies, but not really looking like rain. And at
:20:24. > :20:27.the track, if we look dare -- look bare all, we can see it is quite a
:20:27. > :20:33.new surface, so you can see how chaotic it is on the grid, not just
:20:33. > :20:43.because of the amount of people but also the matter changes taking
:20:43. > :20:45.
:20:45. > :20:48.place. We will try and squeeze through if we can. Some last-minute
:20:48. > :20:58.preparations there, and chatting up this lovely lady from Spanish
:20:58. > :20:59.
:20:59. > :21:06.television. Let's see if we can Jorge Lorenzo, how you feeling? The
:21:06. > :21:12.conditions are difficult and it is a bit of a head scratch. It seems
:21:13. > :21:17.everyone is going to choose the dry tyres, but the track is slippery.
:21:17. > :21:26.It is going to be difficult in the first track. -- first lapse. Don't
:21:26. > :21:30.make mistakes. Thank you, good luck. That is going to be a big call,
:21:30. > :21:35.going out on the slips. Let's see if Casey Stoner is going out on
:21:35. > :21:41.them. He is alongside Jorge Lorenzo on the front row, making his final
:21:41. > :21:46.appearance in MotoGP, of course, this weekend. Let squeeze in for a
:21:46. > :21:51.quick word with Casey. Your last appearance, and I get you are fully
:21:51. > :21:54.focused because these conditions are not ideal. I don't really want
:21:55. > :22:00.to be here. These and not the conditions are wanted to end my
:22:00. > :22:04.career in. This track, but this weather, maybe one of the worst
:22:04. > :22:10.we've ever seen. It has taken a long time to dry, and some of it
:22:10. > :22:14.isn't dry. There are some big risks in the past the time what -- might
:22:14. > :22:19.have taken with selecting the tyres, but I cannot afford to do that this
:22:19. > :22:23.time. It is disappointing. I do all we had a chance if it was dry, but
:22:23. > :22:29.I know where I stand in the wet and it is hard work. Are you going to
:22:29. > :22:34.run on the wet tyres? We will stay with the wet tyres. But we don't
:22:34. > :22:41.know how the race will pan out if a bit more rain comes down, so it's
:22:41. > :22:45.going to be a gamble both ways. But one of those ways is going to be
:22:45. > :22:51.the way forward. I think a sensible way might be the right way. For the
:22:51. > :23:01.last thing he wants to do is go and hurt himself before he heads off to
:23:01. > :23:06.go fishing. Let's move a bit further back. Here is Dovizioso, a
:23:06. > :23:12.wet tyre specialist, 12 times in the top four this season. He has
:23:12. > :23:18.got that vaulted them, in the top three. Let's go to the back of the
:23:19. > :23:28.grid, and a new face taking part in his first MotoGP race today. As a
:23:29. > :23:29.
:23:29. > :23:32.wild rock -- wild-card rider, he is on the bike next year and was
:23:32. > :23:40.supposed to ride in the second Tear This weekend that there was more
:23:40. > :23:49.experienced be gained on a CIT bike, and cloudier, you have lost your
:23:49. > :23:54.ride -- but now you're making your debut. It is exciting. Doing this
:23:54. > :24:00.for a first race is a dream for many people. Now we will see what
:24:00. > :24:05.has happened. The weekend was not so good because of the conditions,
:24:05. > :24:09.but now we are here to do the race and we will see what happens.
:24:09. > :24:14.job at hand because you are on a bike which has not had a lot of
:24:14. > :24:20.track time this year. What is the objective, really? We had a lot of
:24:20. > :24:25.little problems, but the bike looks like it is working now. It is the
:24:25. > :24:32.first race for this bike and we will find out what happens. Thank
:24:32. > :24:36.you. Matt, maybe you have found Cal Crutchlow and he has a surprise the
:24:36. > :24:39.year. You know more about that than me. Your last race of the season, a
:24:39. > :24:45.start on the second row, and a podium in the last race, so you
:24:45. > :24:55.must be motivated for this. Yes, we will try and do the best job we can.
:24:55. > :24:58.Dodgy conditions. We are going with the wet tyres, and it will be a
:24:58. > :25:04.tough race. Hopefully will carry on singing for one direction, dressed
:25:04. > :25:09.like that and if you don't dress like Susi Paris next year, I won't
:25:09. > :25:14.bother speaking to you on the grid. I was just trying to deflect
:25:14. > :25:22.attention away from my extra weight. Jorge Lorenzo is going with the
:25:22. > :25:27.slicks and it is a tough call. not remember what I just said? I am
:25:27. > :25:34.going with the slicks, and they are going with the wets. OK, I am
:25:34. > :25:38.confused. Let's go and see James Ellison, our other British rider.
:25:39. > :25:42.It looks like maybe his last race with the team this year. James, a
:25:42. > :25:47.difficult weekend, but your last race and you will want to go out on
:25:47. > :25:52.a high. Qualifying as an really prove where we should be. We have
:25:52. > :25:58.picked the wrong tyres sometimes, and we just kept folding and
:25:58. > :26:03.collapsing, and disappointing, but my dad has had a word with the guys
:26:03. > :26:07.upstairs, so hopefully will get the advantage back. We went well in the
:26:07. > :26:10.warm-up this morning. We just want to end on a high. I just want to
:26:10. > :26:19.say a big thank you to everyone who has helped me out and supported me.
:26:19. > :26:23.It has been a hard graft especially for my personal sponsors. They have
:26:23. > :26:31.been behind me and hopefully we can put on a show for those guys and
:26:31. > :26:36.He has certainly done his best, James, not letting anyone down.
:26:36. > :26:41.Let's grab a quick word with Gerry Burgess. I suppose the nightmare is
:26:41. > :26:47.almost over, but it will be 30 very tricky lapse in these conditions.
:26:47. > :26:52.Yes, we have, the harder rain tyres. We may have to make a stop for the
:26:52. > :26:57.slicks, but the guys might be slower if they're on them at the
:26:57. > :27:02.beginning. In just an hour's time you will start thinking about going
:27:02. > :27:05.back to Yamaha again. May be a bit longer than that. But that is
:27:05. > :27:12.Tuesday. It will be a very interesting time for everybody on
:27:12. > :27:16.Tuesday and Wednesday. We wish all the best. 30 laps, and the
:27:16. > :27:23.countdown for the boys at Ducati, but it will be 30 very eventful
:27:23. > :27:28.laps, I reckon. I think turn the No. 1 will be a handful. It is a long
:27:28. > :27:32.downhill run, plenty of speed, a challenging corner. All of the
:27:32. > :27:38.riders say it is the bumpy est of the lot. You can see Lorenzo in the
:27:38. > :27:47.middle of the grid. -- the most bumpy of the lot. Valentino Rossi,
:27:47. > :27:53.flanked by the took CRT guys. -- the two CRT guys. But the weather
:27:53. > :28:03.might play into their hands. That is the gamble we just heard that
:28:03. > :28:05.
:28:05. > :28:09.ride round at the back of the pack, because I'm pretty sure that the
:28:09. > :28:12.rest of the guys will have to come in, unless it rains again, and to
:28:12. > :28:18.my mind it is blowing through. Those wet tyres could be destroyed
:28:18. > :28:21.at the end of that race. The slicks wind, but they have to carry on and
:28:21. > :28:26.you have to have a start in the first instance. It will be at least
:28:26. > :28:31.30 seconds to come in and change bikes and go out again. So it will
:28:31. > :28:36.be a really interesting runner. Jorge Lorenzo, keep an eye on him,
:28:36. > :28:44.they have to stay upright. And I can tell you that a slick, cold
:28:44. > :28:48.tile will not have a lot of grit. It will not get a lot of heat in it.
:28:48. > :28:58.A Very Nice and a dry line is building up, but it isn't very wide
:28:58. > :29:03.-- a very Mason to. Casey Stoner thinking he is not going to be on
:29:03. > :29:06.crutches for Christmas. He hasn't got a career on the bike to think
:29:06. > :29:10.about next year, and he hasn't got to impress everyone and he says
:29:10. > :29:19.he's going fishing. I think he might be fishing for the supercars
:29:19. > :29:23.in Australia. A laudable pursuit. This is a very fiddly circuit. They
:29:23. > :29:30.have absolute maximum value for money out of the real estate. It
:29:30. > :29:34.snakes back on itself. That is the turn six, a treacherous corner. We
:29:34. > :29:39.put left, then left again, and then left again, and then double all the
:29:39. > :29:45.way back. Not an easy place to pass an uneasy place to make mistakes.
:29:45. > :29:48.Yes, not easy with this narrow race line. A great crowd, 60,000,
:29:48. > :29:53.considering there weather conditions. And I guess a lot of
:29:53. > :30:03.them will have turned out to see Casey Stoner's last race. He
:30:03. > :30:14.
:30:14. > :30:21.doesn't sound usually pumped about interesting. The only thing is,...
:30:22. > :30:30.Someone just ran off already. Just recovered. Just what you need.
:30:30. > :30:36.know who that is, it is the man on slick tyres. Jorge Lorenzo. Two
:30:36. > :30:45.people diving into the pit lane already. Maybe it was also Cal
:30:45. > :30:51.Crutchlow. It looked like him. He is going for slicks. Their mind,
:30:51. > :30:57.this was called a wet race. It has been declared a wet race so people
:30:57. > :31:07.can change when they want to. Pedrosa will start in the pit rape
:31:07. > :31:13.-- pit lane. Look, there is a whole line of them. It is going to be
:31:13. > :31:22.busy in to turn one. It really is. It would have been easier for
:31:22. > :31:27.Lorenzo had he... We are ready to start a! A difficult start for
:31:27. > :31:36.Jorge Lorenzo on the slicks. Bike number eight, Hector Barbera
:31:36. > :31:46.steaming in. Look at that. Slither and slide trying to get the power
:31:46. > :31:48.
:31:48. > :31:58.down. Look at this. We did say it CRT had a better chance in these
:31:58. > :32:01.
:32:01. > :32:08.conditions. There is Jorge Lorenzo, he is in good shape. Look at James
:32:08. > :32:15.Ellison's team, they are pushing through. By lap 15 I think there
:32:15. > :32:19.will be a good dry line, those wet tyres will be worn out. The rest of
:32:19. > :32:29.the guys, we saw off wheels spinning out ten seconds after the
:32:29. > :32:30.
:32:30. > :32:34.rest had gone through. Valentino Rossi pops into third. In front of
:32:34. > :32:44.him as Hector Barbera. Behind him is Casey Stoner who is in the right
:32:44. > :32:47.
:32:47. > :32:53.sort of tyres for these conditions, at least. Bike number 41 is leading.
:32:53. > :32:58.It is a shuffle like I have never seen before. Valentino Rossi is
:32:58. > :33:08.trying to put pressure on Hector Barbera. How about that, he is
:33:08. > :33:09.
:33:09. > :33:18.through. Stoner goes with him. The first lap is done. Casey Stoner
:33:18. > :33:28.gets back pass to Valentino Rossi. They're still doing about 185 mph.
:33:28. > :33:29.
:33:29. > :33:38.It is incredibly focusing. If Aleix Espargaro can stretch out, he has
:33:38. > :33:44.got an enormous lead. He can come in and changed his bike. Been
:33:44. > :33:50.declared a wet race means that they can swap bikes whenever they want.
:33:50. > :33:54.He will work out the optimum. If he feels he is not getting anywhere
:33:54. > :34:00.with these wet tyres, he can put his hand up and tell the guys, I
:34:00. > :34:06.want to come in at next lap for a new bike. That is the key to that.
:34:06. > :34:12.But you have got to work out the optimum time to do it. At the back
:34:12. > :34:19.we have got Dani Pedrosa. Here comes Dani Pedrosa with through
:34:19. > :34:24.that gaggle. Almost getting tangled up. He is trying to find a way
:34:24. > :34:34.through. Dani Pedrosa will be thinking, I was the fastest man on
:34:34. > :34:41.the planet this time yesterday! They are all on the soft rain tyres.
:34:41. > :34:47.Lorenzo is on the slick tyres. But look at that dry line there. The
:34:47. > :34:52.only issue is trying to pass, you have to go on the wet line to do it.
:34:53. > :35:01.This is all very confusing for everyone at home, but it will all
:35:01. > :35:09.pan out. The person in the best position... It is a bit of who is
:35:09. > :35:18.on first base. Look at this, it is a cavalry charge! Pick a rider, any
:35:19. > :35:28.rider. Dani Pedrosa is in 15th place. A major moment of their
:35:29. > :35:47.
:35:47. > :35:56.former McAlees Piero. -- Michele laps are coming from the wet tyres
:35:57. > :36:03.out there. Aleix Espargaro is putting in the fastest time. And
:36:03. > :36:09.the guys at the back and I'm talking about Cal Crutchlow, Alvaro
:36:09. > :36:13.Bautista, they are 12 seconds back. They are giving away four seconds a
:36:13. > :36:20.lap at the moment. The person who looks in the best position at the
:36:20. > :36:27.moment would have to be Jorge Lorenzo in seventh. He is just
:36:27. > :36:32.hanging on and his lap time is not too bad. He is two second a lap
:36:32. > :36:42.slower, but he can afford to lose 15-20 seconds and still have a
:36:42. > :36:46.
:36:46. > :36:51.chance when the guys coming to change. -- come in to change.
:36:51. > :37:01.number 22, he has had the first excursion into the gravel. Easily
:37:01. > :37:06.
:37:07. > :37:16.done. It is very difficult indeed. It is a horrible feeling. It is
:37:16. > :37:26.like being on a tightrope, trying to stay on the line, trying not to
:37:26. > :37:33.
:37:33. > :37:38.fall off. Look at Lorenzo. He is absolutely on a steamer and now.
:37:38. > :37:45.Lorenzo is through on the slicks. It was a short lived trip going on
:37:45. > :37:55.wets. If Lorenzo can keep it up, he is on the tyres that the track will
:37:55. > :37:57.
:37:57. > :38:05.come back to. The try-line will come back to him. Hector Barbera
:38:05. > :38:10.has not disappeared from the race just from the front frame of guys.
:38:10. > :38:18.Andrea Dovizioso just chasing. Valentino Rossi is still in the
:38:18. > :38:23.middle of this gaggle. Dani Pedrosa is now up to 11 place. Into the
:38:23. > :38:27.pits goes Casey Stoner. Dani Pedrosa is three seconds faster
:38:27. > :38:36.than everyone else on the track. We are at the time when these guys
:38:36. > :38:42.will have to start going in, they have worked it all out. It will
:38:42. > :38:46.take a couple of laps to get up to speed with the new bike. At the
:38:46. > :38:53.moment Dani Pedrosa is there in seventh position, now he is up to
:38:53. > :39:03.six. Lorenzo was looking like a genius. Karel Abraham is trying to
:39:03. > :39:04.
:39:04. > :39:13.get things going. They are side by side. Lorenzo was looking like the
:39:13. > :39:20.smartest guy. He was the bravest, maybe. Stefan Bradl is also on the
:39:20. > :39:30.right tyres. Keep a close eye on him. It was brave and risky, but it
:39:30. > :39:32.
:39:32. > :39:42.paid off. Bike number 21, the yam had test rider is just munching his
:39:42. > :39:46.
:39:46. > :39:56.way past. -- Yamaha. Valentino Rossi is under some pressure.
:39:56. > :40:00.Stefan Bradl is on the slicks. is the test driver. He is filling
:40:00. > :40:10.in for a Ben's bees. That would be a great result to get him on the
:40:10. > :40:11.
:40:11. > :40:16.podium. -- Ben Spies. It was a difficult call with the tyres, some
:40:16. > :40:26.people just guessed it better than others. But points for Lorenzo
:40:26. > :40:39.
:40:39. > :40:45.lane yesterday in qualifying at 140 mph. He got a 250 pound fine. There
:40:45. > :40:50.was your former race leader, Aleix Espargaro. He has gone to slicks.
:40:50. > :40:56.It was short lived to see him leading the race. Cal Crutchlow has
:40:56. > :41:02.just put the fastest lap of the race and has climbed up to fifth.
:41:02. > :41:12.That was a good move for him coming in and changing. He is now the
:41:12. > :41:27.
:41:27. > :41:32.fastest bike on the track. The test place. What a shuffle. You just
:41:32. > :41:42.have to be so precise because if you run a metre off line, you run
:41:42. > :41:52.off the track. I have been there and it is horrible. It is really
:41:52. > :41:56.
:41:56. > :42:06.tricky. There is no room for error whatsoever. That was the fastest
:42:06. > :42:07.
:42:07. > :42:11.laps for Dani Pedrosa there. It is going to be a real scrap between
:42:11. > :42:17.Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo. I really think that Casey Stoner has
:42:17. > :42:22.ruled himself out of this. thought Casey Stoner was either
:42:23. > :42:28.going to win it or give up on it this weekend. He feels, as you said,
:42:28. > :42:33.he does not want to end up at a hospital bed instead of his
:42:33. > :42:42.retirement party tonight. He just wants to go home to his wife and
:42:42. > :42:49.girl. He just has to get through this and get to the airport. Phil -
:42:49. > :42:53.- Stefan Bradl is in good shape. Brave gambles from those guys. But
:42:53. > :43:03.it did make sense. All they realistically had to do was carry
:43:03. > :43:13.on and keep the bike upright. Important to pay credit to the test
:43:13. > :43:20.rider, he is a Japanese rider. And a very strong competitor. This race
:43:20. > :43:27.last year, it looked like Ben Spies was going to win it and then Casey
:43:27. > :43:31.Stoner tried it out at the end. The good news is, at every lap gets
:43:31. > :43:41.better and better. The tyre temperatures will be going up and
:43:41. > :43:44.
:43:44. > :43:54.the track is getting drier. They are about five miles an hour under
:43:54. > :43:56.
:43:56. > :44:02.200. If you get it wrong, you're in big trouble. They will have it
:44:02. > :44:07.switched to the softer engine programme in these conditions.
:44:07. > :44:14.There's a 3 position button on a Yamaha and Honda. It enables them
:44:14. > :44:21.to shift. If he had run wide he would have gone on the wet part of
:44:21. > :44:30.the track. The good news is, you can see the dry part of the track.
:44:30. > :44:39.At least those tyre temperatures are up. An important point to
:44:39. > :44:46.explain it is that when you jump on a bank -- bike, oh no, that bike is
:44:46. > :44:53.not restarting. When you jump on tyre war must takes the edge off
:44:53. > :45:00.things, but they are not up to PES yet. As a rider it takes you a
:45:00. > :45:09.while to establish how much temperature you have got. Stefan
:45:09. > :45:16.Bradl is up into third place. Crutchlow is coming. There he is.
:45:16. > :45:20.He is on a run as well. I would not write him off for a podium. He has
:45:20. > :45:26.looked pretty strong all weekend and in these difficult conditions
:45:26. > :45:36.with virtually no running of any use, qualifying himself. He covered
:45:36. > :45:44.
:45:44. > :45:49.possible podium. These guys, they took the wrong gamble, I guess.
:45:49. > :45:56.Nicky Hayden, that is even more wrong. By trustees all right. He is
:45:56. > :46:02.looking at his hand. -- I trust he is all right. 13, you know how
:46:02. > :46:07.quickly you go through there. a nightmare Nikkei has had, he has
:46:07. > :46:13.not had a podium all year, the first year he has done that, and he
:46:13. > :46:23.has to endure it next year again. Valentino Rossi in 11th, he has
:46:23. > :46:25.
:46:25. > :46:32.changed his tyres. 1.34, Lorenzo. He is not in a real hurry, is he?
:46:32. > :46:42.Yeah, whatever, I don't mind. But it is very important to get that
:46:42. > :46:46.bike sorted and get comfortable as fast as you can. Such a shovel
:46:46. > :46:54.going on, and at the end of this there is a clutch of four at the
:46:54. > :47:04.front, and then a big gap back to Bautista. The issue Cal Crutchlow
:47:04. > :47:06.
:47:06. > :47:12.has here is that he is faster... Oh, no! He tried to get up too early,
:47:12. > :47:18.and he is furious. He know what he has thrown away, a podium. Good
:47:19. > :47:24.news for Cal Crutchlow. Bacall side of the tyres, down into the 4th
:47:24. > :47:30.turn -- the cold side. Crutchlow getting a bit sloppy,
:47:30. > :47:37.gave away some mileage. Just before we saw Stefan Bradl go down,
:47:37. > :47:42.Crutchlow has the problem of going into the narrow line. The only
:47:42. > :47:47.chance he has got, coming out of turn No. 14, is getting him on the
:47:47. > :47:53.breaks into the first turn. But he has to run of the very narrow dry
:47:53. > :48:03.line. That is the problem. You cannot get through. Lorenzo is gone.
:48:03. > :48:07.1.33. Dani Pedrosa just behind him. So this is going to be a battle
:48:07. > :48:14.royal between the pair of them. 20 laps to go, only a third of the
:48:14. > :48:20.race gone. The two Spaniards, won the world champion, leading, and
:48:20. > :48:24.then Dani Pedrosa, the man who would have hoped to win the World
:48:24. > :48:30.Championship and this year was probably his best ever chance. He
:48:30. > :48:40.was bang on form. It is Jorge Lorenzo trying to dig in and
:48:40. > :48:44.scraper little more grip -- scrape a little more grip. Dani Pedrosa in
:48:44. > :48:51.a better can -- position. He has the carrot in front of him and can
:48:51. > :48:56.see what is going on. He has closed the gap a tiny bit. I know it is
:48:56. > :49:04.only a small difference, but his tyres are three or four laps under
:49:04. > :49:13.less pressure than Lorenzo. But it is Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa, Cal
:49:13. > :49:23.Crutchlow, trying to find a way past, then Bautista. Jorge Lorenzo
:49:23. > :49:28.
:49:28. > :49:33.shaking his head. I don't like this closing him down, he has taken one
:49:33. > :49:43.second out of him. Now he is only half a second away from him. Dani
:49:43. > :49:46.
:49:46. > :49:50.Pedrosa has got this on a big time. Jorge Lorenzo House do -- has do --
:49:50. > :49:54.has to look at his temperature gauge to work out how fast ago.
:49:54. > :50:00.Dani Pedrosa is in the box seat, and they can see how much Jorge
:50:00. > :50:05.Lorenzo is slipping around. Inexplicably, Casey Stoner is in
:50:05. > :50:10.the 8th, about two seconds per lap slower than these two. Now they're
:50:10. > :50:20.all on the same tyres. That is a bit of a disappointing way to say
:50:20. > :50:25.
:50:26. > :50:30.goodbye. Let's have a look at this, the view from Dani Pedrosa. He has
:50:30. > :50:34.seen the wheel of that Honda come past him to many times this year.
:50:34. > :50:37.You have to say that Dani Pedrosa's championship went wrong at the
:50:37. > :50:43.beginning of the season. Nothing to were horrible happened, but he had
:50:43. > :50:49.a third, then a 4th in France -- nothing to were horrible. He just
:50:49. > :50:56.didn't get the consistency in the early part. Both of the riders have
:50:56. > :51:01.had problems, but realistically Jorge Lorenzo, the man leading the
:51:01. > :51:05.race, was so solid at the start of the season. Credit to Yamaha, they
:51:05. > :51:08.came out with the new machine, and it worked. The testing went
:51:08. > :51:18.perfectly well and straight from out of the box it was really
:51:18. > :51:22.
:51:22. > :51:27.weigh it all up. The longer he leaves it, the wider the try line
:51:27. > :51:33.will get. And then he will have a better opportunity. He will have
:51:33. > :51:39.all the time in the world to stalk him. He definitely has the speed,
:51:39. > :51:44.of that there is no doubt. Lorenzo could not believe how quickly Dani
:51:44. > :51:49.Pedrosa did a lap yesterday. It was nearly perfect, as Dani Pedrosa
:51:49. > :51:59.said himself, but he had lots of laps when he was knocking on the
:51:59. > :52:00.
:52:00. > :52:05.door. We talk about what some tracks we might go to. Keys in a
:52:05. > :52:13.potential podium position. He had to do that in a breaking position.
:52:13. > :52:21.We talked about the narrow tracks. What has happened here? He looks to
:52:21. > :52:31.me to be further back. He is. Where is Lorenzo? Either that Tory is a
:52:31. > :52:36.
:52:36. > :52:40.terribly far in the lead! -- he is Lorenzo. He ran far too wide on to
:52:40. > :52:47.the Astroturf, then on to the wet part of the track and manage to get
:52:47. > :52:50.it under control. He studied up just in time. -- he stood it up.
:52:50. > :52:58.Lorenzo is in the curious position of having to lap some people which
:52:58. > :53:08.is going to keep his hands full. He has a whole host in front of him.
:53:08. > :53:09.
:53:09. > :53:13.He will have to go off the dry line. Oh, dear, one down. Colin Edwards
:53:13. > :53:19.is getting out of the way. He is old enough and wise enough to not
:53:19. > :53:27.one to get tangled up. James Ellison about to get the treatment.
:53:27. > :53:34.I think Colin has retired as well. He is just touring. What Jorge
:53:34. > :53:40.Lorenzo it won't know is that he has a 4.5 seconds lead. Both, no!
:53:40. > :53:48.Its offer. Lorenzo's races run. He tried to get past James Ellison and
:53:48. > :53:54.got caught out. That's it. What do you do, lapping traffic, it was not
:53:54. > :54:00.James Ellison's fault. Maybe a little bit too impatient. He is
:54:00. > :54:05.absolutely incandescent, furious and understandably. Now he is on
:54:05. > :54:10.the wet part. He thought he had it under control and it absolutely
:54:10. > :54:15.fires him over the top. He is up and OK, but he is furious. He did
:54:15. > :54:20.not know Dani Pedrosa was five seconds back. He was defending a
:54:20. > :54:25.problem that wasn't there, and the worst -- best part of that is that
:54:25. > :54:31.he is not badly hurt. Because that was a future off. He could have
:54:31. > :54:37.done an ankle, collar bone, or anything. Imagine if he had been
:54:37. > :54:47.clear up with the championship still alive. Look at the height he
:54:47. > :54:53.flew. It was the fact he had to run off the line. That is about
:54:53. > :55:01.�100,000 worth of damage there. is not a motorbike any more. --
:55:01. > :55:06.that is not. If Dani Pedrosa had just been behind him still in the
:55:06. > :55:11.championship, that would have been in. Arguably he would have taken a
:55:11. > :55:16.more cautious route, but whatever. We talked about the terrible narrow
:55:16. > :55:21.line, and the rear tyre was caught on a wet part. Maybe he could have
:55:21. > :55:27.waited, but you don't know. Easy to sit here because we have the big
:55:27. > :55:32.picture. Second place, Cal Crutchlow. He might not know that
:55:32. > :55:37.yet. Although he has gone past the wreckage of Lorenzo. It was still
:55:37. > :55:47.in the air when he got there! knackers to go is staring down the
:55:47. > :56:01.
:56:01. > :56:05.was. Nobody's fault. Just one of the air. James probably didn't even
:56:05. > :56:10.realise what was going on a par from there were parts of a
:56:10. > :56:20.motorcycle flying through the air above a -- apart from there were
:56:20. > :56:22.
:56:22. > :56:28.parts. Through the first turn, getting a real shuttled in. As we
:56:28. > :56:38.can see, Bautista is in 4th, and he is half an hour down the road.
:56:38. > :56:45.There really is a big gap. He's 50 seconds behind Dani Pedrosa. What a
:56:45. > :56:49.shovel this is. Cal Crutchlow is 22 seconds back, that is between first
:56:49. > :56:57.and second. Pierrot is still in 5th place on a CRT. That would be some
:56:57. > :57:07.result. And Petrucci in six, Casey Stoner in seven. Valentino Rossi in
:57:07. > :57:14.
:57:14. > :57:24.10th, Ellison in 11th. That would distant 7th, one minute and nine
:57:24. > :57:34.
:57:34. > :57:37.that he has the 22nd advantage, so he has dropped his lap time down to
:57:37. > :57:41.1.35. Terrible conditions out there and it is getting drier, but it was
:57:41. > :57:47.not nice to begin with. And what a disappointment. This was going to
:57:47. > :57:52.be some race, I think. Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo, who now sits
:57:52. > :57:59.himself down in the garage and will not believe how it has gone wrong.
:57:59. > :58:06.I am just happy he is not heard, it was a nasty crash. James flicks
:58:06. > :58:10.over, and you can see the dark part of the tarmac. It afflict him at
:58:11. > :58:20.cleaning out of it. It was not your fault, but they Ugo -- it flicked
:58:21. > :58:22.
:58:22. > :58:26.him. You can put those away. That was a very, very scary, dangerous
:58:26. > :58:31.moment, especially for a man who has already won the championship.
:58:31. > :58:39.But as we were saying at the start, the whole deal is that he just
:58:39. > :58:43.really wanted to finish the year ahead of Dani Pedrosa. He puts a
:58:43. > :58:49.lap over Valentino Rossi. He is in 10th, so that gives you the idea of
:58:49. > :58:54.the astonishing gap. Dani Pedrosa are really nailed it, that gap.
:58:54. > :59:00.Coming in for the change, at the time that he did, early on, appears
:59:00. > :59:08.in hindsight to be a stroke of genius. And, of course, you have to
:59:08. > :59:12.say that he caught the Jorge Lorenzo up by 15 seconds, so he was
:59:12. > :59:17.the fastest guy to come all the way through and did a fabulous job, but
:59:17. > :59:24.Jorge Lorenzo nailed it, starting at on the slicks and kept it
:59:24. > :59:28.upright when everyone was changing. But Dani Pedrosa's speed just ate
:59:28. > :59:32.away at the advantage the Jorge Lorenzo had, and now it is all over.
:59:32. > :59:35.Casey Stoner is getting faster every lap, and it's still not
:59:35. > :59:40.impossible for him to get on the podium with 13 remaining. It
:59:40. > :59:47.depends how much she wants it. is now in the top six, having got
:59:47. > :59:52.past Petrucci. I think it is a good run for him. There is the boss of
:59:52. > :59:57.Honda, thinking, OK, Dani Pedrosa is doing very well but Casey Stoner
:59:58. > :00:02.could drive it harder. Stonor will come across the striping six and
:00:02. > :00:07.the next guy on the shopping list will be a barman at four seconds
:00:07. > :00:12.down the road, so that is difficult. Absolutely. Cal Crutchlow, 26
:00:12. > :00:22.seconds back but he has an enormous advantage, so he can sort of cruise
:00:22. > :00:29.
:00:29. > :00:35.around and that would be some his third podium of the year. I
:00:35. > :00:42.suspect those soft front tyres are getting a little on the soft side.
:00:42. > :00:51.Lap times will drop back down again. I suspect in dry race conditions
:00:51. > :00:57.most of these guys would have been lapping around 1.3, 1.4. The track
:00:57. > :01:04.is probably perfectly dry, but everyone has to build in more of a
:01:04. > :01:09.safety factor because of the very narrow dry line. Because it was so
:01:09. > :01:15.marginal whether or not to go out on slicks in the first place,
:01:15. > :01:23.everyone has opted for the softest slick compound you can. There is
:01:23. > :01:28.poor old Hector Barbera. He was in 14th, no more. Because they opted
:01:28. > :01:34.for the softest tyres, those funds are very uncomfortable when you
:01:34. > :01:41.were kneeling on the brakes. They do not think you could get that
:01:41. > :01:51.back to start on a wet piece of Astroturf! James Ellison, there he
:01:51. > :01:53.
:01:53. > :01:58.is. He is in the top ten. I do not know what is up with Valentino
:01:58. > :02:04.Rossi. The slick tyres are not working for him. I guess as soon as
:02:04. > :02:08.we got to slicks, that is where the things started to unravel for him
:02:08. > :02:18.and he gets back to the same issues he is hoping to ride away from
:02:18. > :02:25.forever next year by joining a Yamaha. There is Hector Barbera, it
:02:26. > :02:35.is all over for him. I think Valentino Rossi had a moment and
:02:36. > :02:38.
:02:38. > :02:48.went off track. They think he has run wide. He led the race, I will
:02:48. > :02:53.
:02:53. > :03:03.never forget that. What a way to end the year. Aleix Espargaro.
:03:03. > :03:09.There is Randy De Puniet. Finishing this way will mean that Aleix
:03:09. > :03:18.Espargaro is claiming team champion of the year. Randy De Puniet is
:03:18. > :03:22.looking very judicious, isn't he? The only good thing about having
:03:22. > :03:30.wets on would be to get out of their quicker of. He is deeply in
:03:30. > :03:37.the gravel there. 11 laps remaining. Dani Pedrosa has done everything
:03:37. > :03:45.right this weekend. Yes, he is really under no pressure now. He
:03:45. > :03:55.has got a 26 second lead over Cal Crutchlow. I would like the
:03:55. > :03:56.
:03:56. > :04:06.Japanese rider to hop on the podium. Bono! Let's hope he did not hurt
:04:06. > :04:06.
:04:06. > :04:12.his ankle there. That is another broker and a motorbike. Just about
:04:12. > :04:21.to say, Dani Pedrosa winning here would give him this seven wins as
:04:21. > :04:27.opposed to Jorge Lorenzo's 6 wins. This is a brand new surface and a
:04:27. > :04:37.lot of the guys said when it was wet it is not as drippy as they
:04:37. > :04:46.
:04:46. > :04:52.hope. -- grippy. Dani Pedrosa has a large lead. As you rightly pointed
:04:52. > :04:58.out, that is the mistake Lorenzo made. He made a lunge to get past
:04:58. > :05:05.James Ellison of which he did not need to make. Dani Pedrosa are just
:05:05. > :05:11.giving it arrest. It is a fast, dangerous corner. Karel Abraham had
:05:11. > :05:21.a glance over his shoulder, but he probably did not have time to see
:05:21. > :05:22.
:05:22. > :05:28.who it was. Karel Abraham has just been lap to, he is in ninth
:05:28. > :05:33.position. This is a pretty ugly shuffle in terms of race order. It
:05:33. > :05:43.was always going to be that way. Changing tyres have way through
:05:43. > :05:53.
:05:53. > :06:03.really jumbles up the field. Dani Pedrosa shifts his weight, moving
:06:03. > :06:21.
:06:21. > :06:27.himself. He is not sitting on the recap. Their 80 is on your screen.
:06:27. > :06:37.The test rider is looking pretty strong for a podium in third. Here
:06:37. > :06:38.
:06:38. > :06:43.is the start of the race. Valentino Rossi was third into the first turn.
:06:43. > :06:53.Jorge Lorenzo at this point is thinking, keep it up right, do not
:06:53. > :06:53.
:06:53. > :07:03.do anything silly. Here is the pit lane I view. That is Cal Crutchlow
:07:03. > :07:19.
:07:19. > :07:27.that then. Those two men, Dani Pedrosa and Cal Crutchlow are now
:07:27. > :07:33.first and second. They certainly are an Dani Pedrosa is eight laps
:07:33. > :07:39.away from taking his seventh win of that season. Cal Crutchlow doing a
:07:39. > :07:43.wonderful job, this will be his best ever result in MotoGP and his
:07:43. > :07:53.third podium of the season. shows how hard these guys are
:07:53. > :07:59.
:07:59. > :08:03.working. I am surprised they didn't make that decision on the out lap.
:08:03. > :08:07.When the grid it up. That would have been the best time to have
:08:07. > :08:13.done it. May be a were waiting that extra few minutes to make sure
:08:13. > :08:22.there was no more rain. Or maybe they were thinking if Jorge Lorenzo,
:08:22. > :08:32.Jorge Lorenzo was with them at that point. There is the Yamaha test
:08:32. > :08:36.
:08:36. > :08:44.driver. Plus 28, that is something nice to see. Karel Abraham is one
:08:44. > :08:53.lap down in ninth position but he has not lost any ground. Dani
:08:53. > :09:02.Pedrosa is absolutely cruising. Cal Crutchlow! That was second place,
:09:02. > :09:07.the end of it! I am so sorry. I guess he just went on the brakes
:09:07. > :09:17.going in to turn the 13th. That was going to be his best ever result.
:09:17. > :09:19.
:09:19. > :09:24.Not to be. He tried to hang on to it. I would like to see that shop
:09:24. > :09:33.slightly early on, I suspect that is just when he put on the brakes.
:09:33. > :09:43.He clung on to the side of the bike, it was cartwheeling down that track.
:09:43. > :09:45.
:09:45. > :09:54.Quickly up to third gear. This is it. Just as he shuts on the brakes,
:09:54. > :10:00.it slid out from under him. He will be distraught. I do not want to
:10:00. > :10:07.give you any nasty statistics, but he was 30 seconds behind Dani
:10:07. > :10:15.Pedrosa and around the same in front of the test rider. The
:10:15. > :10:20.Japanese rider is now on the podium at this stage. Talk about smart,
:10:20. > :10:26.Casey Stoner is now a fourth and you were saying he would not get
:10:26. > :10:32.podium. Nothing is impossible. By hope Cal Crutchlow has not hurt
:10:32. > :10:40.himself and it will not dent his efficiency on Tuesday. It will
:10:40. > :10:50.allow him to stay in seventh place in the championship, where he was.
:10:50. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:56.He front folded, locked up. He will be asking himself why. The track is
:10:56. > :11:02.getting drier the whole time. He is looking back thinking, what on
:11:02. > :11:09.earth happened it there. We have another angle there. Watch this. It
:11:10. > :11:15.completely locked up. I am assuming he just ran in their a tiny little
:11:15. > :11:20.bit hotter and faster than he had done in the lap before. These guys
:11:20. > :11:26.are always on the limit. There is no margin for error as he just
:11:26. > :11:36.demonstrated their. All it takes is a tiny bit more front brake
:11:36. > :11:41.pressure. Now Dani Pedrosa has 36 seconds over the Japanese rider.
:11:41. > :11:47.will look at these results in a couple of years and say, how did
:11:47. > :11:57.the test rider finished second? What was he doing? He will be a
:11:57. > :12:08.
:12:08. > :12:11.hero back in Japan! Here he is. The John Hopkins number there, 21.
:12:11. > :12:15.something happened to Dani Pedrosa the great panic with the race
:12:15. > :12:25.organisers would be if they can find the Japanese national anthem
:12:25. > :12:31.
:12:31. > :12:36.to play! Alvaro Bautista is 36 seconds behind Dani Pedrosa. Casey
:12:36. > :12:42.Stoner is five seconds behind Alvaro Bautista. But he is lapping
:12:42. > :12:48.it two seconds faster than Alvaro Bautista at the moment. His last
:12:48. > :12:54.lap was the fastest of any one on the track. He has got five laps to
:12:54. > :13:01.go. He has got Alvaro Bautista in his sights. Is he hungry enough to
:13:01. > :13:11.get himself on the podium? It would be nice for Honda. He is starting
:13:11. > :13:17.
:13:17. > :13:27.to press on. A bit of a moment. Alvaro Bautista is responding. They
:13:27. > :13:31.
:13:31. > :13:35.will be telling him to speed up. He has picked it up. He is fifth in
:13:35. > :13:45.the championship at the moment and will not be bothered by Valentino
:13:45. > :13:53.
:13:53. > :14:03.Rossi who is down in tenth place. in the old dog yet. Once more,
:14:03. > :14:03.
:14:03. > :14:07.Casey. To finish first, first you must finish. I know that Cal
:14:08. > :14:12.Crutchlow will be down in that garage trying to explain what
:14:12. > :14:17.happens. When they get the bike back, he will be trawling through
:14:17. > :14:22.that data are trying to establish what happens. They can look at the
:14:22. > :14:32.sensors, Look at the break for us, they can do a proper post-mortem on
:14:32. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:50.that bike. -- brake. Alvaro Bautista is under pressure from
:14:50. > :14:55.
:14:55. > :15:00.Casey Stoner. The track is probably completely dry in every park. Any
:15:00. > :15:10.tiny mistake where you run wide however, you are in big, big
:15:10. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:25.trouble. Yes, asked Jorge Lorenzo. There is an did have its Co so. --
:15:25. > :15:29.
:15:29. > :15:37.Andrea Dovizioso. Terrible marks on the road. Marks on the track from
:15:37. > :15:44.that crash. What happened there, he ran a little bit off line and could
:15:44. > :15:54.not afford to brake. He was on the wet part of the track. Any tiny
:15:54. > :16:00.
:16:00. > :16:06.mistake is compounded into a huge podium position. It is too risky to
:16:06. > :16:16.take on the chance of the line. second term would be my preferred
:16:16. > :16:19.
:16:19. > :16:25.place. -- second term. It will be awkward through here. Cold tyres,
:16:25. > :16:31.these are the trickiest corners, lots of left-handers, then building
:16:31. > :16:35.the temperature up. He will know exactly where the track was at its
:16:35. > :16:41.widest and driest. If he can get a good ride out of the final corner
:16:41. > :16:51.into the first turn, we have seen it happen. It would be awfully
:16:51. > :16:51.
:16:51. > :16:59.tricky to try and pass at this point. Bond has to sound rather
:16:59. > :17:02.awful. Have a listen. -- by Honda does sound rather awful. How many
:17:02. > :17:08.times as it happened this year when we look over and the sun is about
:17:08. > :17:12.to come out as the races finishing? I reckon he will try and get a run-
:17:12. > :17:18.out of the final corner. This is where Cal Crutchlow had his
:17:18. > :17:23.unfortunate situation, and there is Bautista saying that for these OK.
:17:23. > :17:30.Bautista won't be thinking that. You don't wreck the bike is what
:17:30. > :17:36.they are thinking. Stonor moving to the inside, and he has got it
:17:36. > :17:44.sussed. So much deeper on the brakes. He was much later on the
:17:44. > :17:48.brakes. And Casey Stoner will be saying goodbye with a podium. All
:17:48. > :17:58.things being equal, but nothing has been so far. Be careful what you
:17:58. > :17:58.
:17:58. > :18:07.say. From the CRT machine, that is a result. It has got the Honda Fire
:18:07. > :18:13.blade engine. Berra goes, and that is still going on. -- there it goes.
:18:13. > :18:23.Yes, and they are a lap apart. I don't know if that was a gesture or
:18:23. > :18:26.
:18:26. > :18:34.a tear off from Dovizioso. Soak Dani Pedrosa still has that
:18:34. > :18:38.enormous advantage -- so Dani Pedrosa. Once Dani Pedrosa crosses
:18:38. > :18:48.the line, we will be killing time waiting for the next guy to get
:18:48. > :19:02.
:19:02. > :19:09.7th win of the season. What a season he has had, unfortunately
:19:09. > :19:14.was punctuated by a couple of non finishes. He had the measure of
:19:14. > :19:22.Lorenzo and he could have got past him without having to just ride
:19:22. > :19:32.past him on the track. After his crash. It goes the team. It is the
:19:32. > :19:37.
:19:37. > :19:42.end of the 2012 season, 18 rounds, This guy is on a roll. Dani Pedrosa
:19:42. > :19:49.wins in Valencia. Get your soccer cup of tea, sit down, have a rest,
:19:49. > :19:56.get comfy -- get yourself a cup of tea. We are going to have to wait a
:19:56. > :20:01.couple of seconds for the next guy to finish. That will be some result.
:20:01. > :20:08.The last time we saw a test rider come in and finish on the podium,
:20:08. > :20:13.that is very special. A nice bit of riding from him. He kept it up
:20:13. > :20:19.right. His new tour of this, he doesn't get to ride here very often.
:20:20. > :20:24.-- he is new to all of this. Yes, you shake your head, sunshine. And
:20:24. > :20:28.if Casey Stoner can stay on the black stuff for another of corners,
:20:29. > :20:33.he will have a nice spot on the podium to say goodbye to us all.
:20:33. > :20:38.His lovely wife is stood up there. Casey Stoner, on the podium.
:20:38. > :20:43.Doesn't look happy, and he won't be happy. It doesn't matter. Thank you
:20:43. > :20:51.very much, goodbye. But Honda racing boss getting up to wave
:20:51. > :20:59.goodbye. A poignant moment. And how about this? You explain the
:20:59. > :21:05.significance of this. 4th and 5th. Bautista on the Ford factory Honda
:21:05. > :21:11.machine, a Home build, a kind of Fire blade engine, and very well
:21:12. > :21:17.tuned, but that is a great result in front of Dovizioso. Going
:21:17. > :21:20.fishing! The is indeed. We have enjoyed watching his tremendous
:21:20. > :21:25.career. One of the fastest men we have ever seen on a motorcycle.
:21:25. > :21:28.This man, Dani Pedrosa, what a season he has had. Unfortunately he
:21:28. > :21:33.did not take the championship but he has proven to be a proper
:21:33. > :21:36.contender. In the past people said he would never win a world
:21:36. > :21:42.championship in MotoGP. I disagree from what I have seen from this
:21:42. > :21:45.year. He has got the momentum. lot of these guys will go to the
:21:45. > :21:50.Motor Cycle Show at the NEC in a few weeks' time. Cal Crutchlow is
:21:50. > :21:56.coming along, and Stefan Bradl. That will be a treat for the fans.
:21:56. > :22:02.And the guys from Superbikes. Valentino Rossi finished in 10th.
:22:02. > :22:08.It didn't really work. It is all over, Valentino. You have 48 hours
:22:08. > :22:17.to jump on something different. will have to rewrite your column in
:22:17. > :22:23.the Times tomorrow, I believe. He has turned it all round. Never mind.
:22:23. > :22:27.They you go. So, Alvaro Bautista getting picked up the post. That
:22:27. > :22:31.didn't hurt his championship. They were saying that 4th was OK, so he
:22:31. > :22:38.is in front of Valentino Rossi and held on to the spot very
:22:38. > :22:45.comfortably. 5th in the series, that is no bad thing. It has been a
:22:45. > :22:52.mixed up, muddled up season. So was this race, goodness me. We had a
:22:52. > :22:59.Honda, from a Yamaha, then a Honda. Spare a thought for Cal Crutchlow.
:22:59. > :23:03.He had that in the bag, but team fortunately he dropped the bag. --
:23:03. > :23:08.unfortunately. He will not mince around and just wobble home though.
:23:09. > :23:13.I certainly didn't get that in my prediction on the website. Two of
:23:13. > :23:17.those were in there, but I was expecting Lorenzo there as well.
:23:17. > :23:25.would not want to have ridden out there today. Then that -- the
:23:25. > :23:32.weather was very mixed. It is going to be horrible later this week.
:23:32. > :23:38.hope the weather picks up for me. Good on you, chap. Nice work. Now
:23:38. > :23:43.take this thing, get it out of my sight, and I will see it later.
:23:43. > :23:46.Is There a blue touchpaper to light on that? I don't like it when
:23:46. > :23:56.Valentino doesn't do well, and I don't like it when Ducati doesn't
:23:56. > :23:59.
:23:59. > :24:04.do well. James Ellison will like great result from James Allison.
:24:04. > :24:09.Paul Bird, the boss, he is here this week and -- James Ellison.
:24:09. > :24:13.Some tears here. By think Casey Stoner might have looked a little
:24:13. > :24:23.bit moved as he waved goodbye to everyone. I might be projecting, of
:24:23. > :24:35.
:24:35. > :24:39.That must be his dad, I reckon. it's Lorenzo's mechanic. Great
:24:39. > :24:43.stuff from Dani Pedrosa, he leads - - leaves the end of this year with
:24:44. > :24:49.his tail up. Nice to see Casey Stoner doing a lap and waving to
:24:49. > :24:54.his fans. He might have had a few more fans if he wasn't so grumpy,
:24:54. > :25:00.but he is a star. I don't think he cares. He just wants to do his best
:25:00. > :25:06.and get out of there. Look at that, the CRT champion, in fine style.
:25:06. > :25:10.Tell me what Casey Stoner is saying. I think there will be a certain
:25:10. > :25:17.amount of sadness. It is the end of a fantastic racing career. A short
:25:17. > :25:20.one. It is not short of, because he started at four years old. I think
:25:20. > :25:24.Casey Stoner is getting faster and faster. He said at the beginning of
:25:24. > :25:28.the show he was still learning and he had found out things this year
:25:28. > :25:36.that improved his riding. He probably still would have got
:25:36. > :25:46.faster and faster. We will never know now, sadly. Dani Pedrosa, what
:25:46. > :25:49.Maybe one of the best wins we have seen. The conditions were horrible.
:25:49. > :25:58.* think that - starting from the pit lane, so talk me through the
:25:58. > :26:06.race. I decided I had to do something similar. I am really,
:26:06. > :26:12.really happy. It was so difficult. It was very difficult at the start
:26:12. > :26:16.to choose, and when I saw Jorge Lorenzo dues the slicks -- choose
:26:16. > :26:22.the slicks, I was calm in that decision, but I was waiting on the
:26:22. > :26:28.track and it was drying up much more than a first lap. Before the
:26:28. > :26:35.start I thought I could stop and go to the pits and start from there. I
:26:35. > :26:41.have never done that before. And finally, I don't know why, instinct
:26:41. > :26:46.came into play and I went to the box and took the bike. I was so
:26:46. > :26:51.fast at the beginning, and then I caught Jorge Lorenzo, and I did
:26:51. > :26:55.make a mistake, and then he made a mistake in the same place. A really
:26:55. > :27:00.exciting race. At the end it was very hard to stay focused because
:27:00. > :27:10.the gap was very big, but I'm very pleased, and thank you to the team.
:27:10. > :27:14.It is a great way to finish the Well, what about that? He was more
:27:14. > :27:24.than a little bit concerned that he had gone the wrong way on his tyres,
:27:24. > :27:24.
:27:24. > :27:28.but he showed great dexterity and He started from the pit lane, so he
:27:28. > :27:38.was starting in last. James Ellison on the leaderboard. Nicely done,
:27:38. > :27:39.
:27:39. > :27:48.sunshine. And the best ever result from Michele Pirro. Valentino Rossi,
:27:48. > :27:58.a lap down, in 10th position. Alex Desperado is the -- Alex Espargaro
:27:58. > :28:14.
:28:14. > :28:18.Why to way to go out. I can think you would do it, did you? Certainly
:28:18. > :28:22.not after I saw Jorge Lorenzo go past. Others waiting for the sign
:28:22. > :28:28.tatami that the slick tyres were faster and I was a little bit
:28:28. > :28:33.disappointed -- a sign from my team. I didn't want to take any risks,
:28:33. > :28:37.and honestly I am scared of crashing and injuring my fault any
:28:37. > :28:41.worse in these last races, and in these conditions that is the most
:28:41. > :28:45.critical. There were a lot of crashes today. When I finally got
:28:45. > :28:50.the slick tyres it took me a few laps to get comfortable. My eyes
:28:50. > :28:54.were the size of dinner plates for the whole race. I didn't want to
:28:54. > :28:58.step off the dry patch and we kept working, trying to improve the
:28:58. > :29:02.speed and with a couple of laps to go we were stood on the box. So it
:29:02. > :29:07.was fantastic to end that way. Considering how things looked
:29:07. > :29:10.before the start of the race. A big thank-you to everyone and my team
:29:10. > :29:14.and all of my supporters all of these years. I suppose they could
:29:14. > :29:17.be a lot of worse ways to go out, so thanks to everyone.
:29:17. > :29:23.incredible finish to an incredible career and I speak for everyone
:29:23. > :29:28.when I say we will miss you. Thank you very much. Undoubtedly. He has
:29:28. > :29:33.set a high bar and that won't be there any more. And yes, we are
:29:33. > :29:42.going to miss him. Some of the guys will miss having to go as fast as
:29:42. > :29:47.they didn't really want to go just Some of those results, going down
:29:47. > :29:57.through the list, Petrucci, Valentino Rossi, Ellison,
:29:57. > :30:33.
:30:33. > :30:37.Congratulations. Tell us how He's very happy about the results
:30:38. > :30:43.and it is difficult conditions, but the staff made a the best choice
:30:43. > :30:53.for him and he is very happy. that relations, thank you very much.
:30:53. > :30:57.
:30:57. > :31:06.Is there no end to your talent? follow base, Steve, but I love it.
:31:06. > :31:16.-- you come off a low base. The first CRT, and that has done a bit
:31:16. > :31:24.
:31:24. > :31:29.tough championships. Let's look at Hernandez still recovering from
:31:29. > :31:39.Mendip -- injury. He leapfrogs Colin Edwards who seem to be
:31:39. > :31:44.
:31:44. > :31:50.Ivan Silva in 9th. It was just a shovel and a half. -- a shovel.
:31:51. > :31:57.Spare a thought for Nicky Hayden, Ivan Silva, Roberto role for,
:31:57. > :32:00.Stefan Bradl, Lorenzo and Crutchlow, they all crashed. Let's have a look
:32:01. > :32:05.at the crash. It really did flicking in the air. It was all
:32:05. > :32:12.about trying to lap of James Ellison as he tipped it into the
:32:12. > :32:17.awkward corner. Just went up the inside, got wide on the wet part,
:32:17. > :32:21.and that was the wet -- end of him. Unfortunately because it was a race
:32:21. > :32:28.to the finishing line, and they were stubborn, but Casey Stoner
:32:28. > :32:32.waves to his fans and says goodbye. OK, as you said, a bit cruel,
:32:32. > :32:36.because he didn't even make the pass. Anything more eventful and I
:32:36. > :32:40.don't know how he would have dealt with it. It was certainly an
:32:40. > :32:46.eventful race to finish the season and a long one. So long we are out
:32:46. > :32:51.of time on BBC2, but depressed a red button for the podium ceremony
:32:51. > :32:58.and half an hour of MotoGP extra as we reflect on a fantastic race Alf