A-style Grand Prix Of Japan

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How Rossi can clinch the title at Motegi

Friday, 19 September 2008
An easy guide as to how Valentino Rossi can clinch a sixth MotoGP World Championship at Motegi – and what it means for his place in history.

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Valentino Rossi is on the brink of taking his sixth MotoGP World Championship, with his first chance of confirming the crown coming next weekend at Twin Ring Motegi. The Fiat Yamaha rider is in a powerful position in at the head of the standings, with an 87 point lead over 2007 titlist Casey Stoner and a further seven point lead over third-placed Dani Pedrosa. Rossi has the situation in his hands, with a podium finish assuring him of the title - even if Stoner records a first Japanese win.
A rostrum for Stoner could effectively be a stay of execution for the Ducati rider, who at best could reduce the gap to 62 points with 75 still up for grabs, if Rossi fails to score a point. A runner-up finish for the Australian would mean that Rossi could afford to finish as low as eighth, whilst rounding off the podium would require Rossi to finish twelfth or better. Stoner taking fourth place would mean that just a point would give the Italian his sixth title.
Pedrosa will only become involved should he win or finish runner up; a Pedrosa win obliges Rossi to finish in the top ten, whilst second place leaves the Yamaha rider in need of a solitary point.
The rider who at Indianapolis beat Giacomo Agostini´s record of victories with his 69th triumph, Rossi will echo his Italian idol this year if he regains the title. Agostini is the only rider to date to have reclaimed the crown after a two year gap.
And the bragging rights that will come with a sixth title? Rossi will have exceeded the total number of premier class titles taken by Mick Doohan, and become the only rider ever to win the World Championship on 500cc, 990cc and 800cc machines.

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hopelijk pakt hij de titel volgende week
kan dan weer trots zijne helm dragen
op mijne Rossitricolé aprilia.

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hopelijk pakt hij de titel volgende week
kan dan weer trots zijne helm dragen
op mijne Rossitricolé aprilia.


Bedoel je Rossitricolore aprilia of heb ik het mis. Als ik juist ben heb jij dan een tricolore appie van Rossi :confused:

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Bedoel je Rossitricolore aprilia of heb ik het mis. Als ik juist ben heb jij dan een tricolore appie van Rossi :confused:
mijne appi is een rossitricolore sta zo in de folders
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en je kun zien dat we rossifan zijn kijk naar de kleine zijne quad

en de helmen zijn van de twee groot meesters in de motorsport (allebij motogeschiedenis geschrijven)
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als ge google gebruikt heb ik maar dat (http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&q=aprilia%20rossitricolor&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw)meer tegen gekomen(we zijn aan uitsterven(beter voor ik"zeldzaamhied")

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Ik heb ook nog met zo'n rsv gereden maar kwist niet dat de kleurstelling Rossitricolore heette :icon_confused:

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Hayden looking to improve Japanese record

Monday, 22 September 2008
Boosted by his first podium of the year in the dramatic first ever visit to his new home track at Indianapolis, Nicky Hayden wants a strong result in his last visit to Motegi as a Honda rider.

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Having ridden on Honda machinery ever since arriving in MotoGP in 2003 Nicky Hayden this week heads to HRC´s home track for the final time as a Repsol Honda rider, before his departure to Ducati at the end of this season.
Coming off the back of a positive result in his new home race at Indianapolis, Hayden wants to use his current confidence and momentum to improve his record at the Motegi circuit which Honda calls home – and where he has only once stepped onto the podium, incidentally in his first visit to the track in 2003.
Hayden is of course still battling back to full fitness having required crutches to move about the Indy paddock due to his ongoing foot injury, but as his IMS ride demonstrated he is already back at a competitive level for the season finale.
`Indy gave us a little bit of a boost,´ stated Hayden. `So we´ll see if we can keep that going at Motegi. I´m looking forward to it because I´m planning on finishing the season strong. I owe that to Honda, they´ve been a big part of my career, so it would be nice to get some more podiums. This will be my last race on a Honda at their home track, so it would be really nice to get a result for all the Honda people who have worked with me.´
Recalling his first race at the Tiwn Ring track as a MotoGP novice five years ago, Hayden added, `First time I went to Motegi as a rookie in 2003 I battled with Sete (Gibernau), Valentino (Rossi) and Makoto (Tamada) and they ended up giving me third, my first top-three result.´
`But since then I really haven´t done much there,´ added the 2006 World Champion whose best subsequent Motegi result was fifth in his title-winning campaign.
`I´ve struggled in some of the hairpin corners,´ he continued. `It´s an okay track, I like the combination in the back when you come under the first bridge, that all flows together really nicely. I like those tunnels, because they´re different, it almost feels like you need headlights! Braking stability is probably the biggest thing, plus acceleration. You need a bike that´s good going back through the gears, so you need a good clutch and engine braking set-up.´

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Lorenzo looking forward to Pacific tour

Monday, 22 September 2008
Fiat Yamaha´s MotoGP Rookie of the Year candidate Jorge Lorenzo is in fine form ahead of MotoGP´s flyaway tour of Japan, Australia and Malaysia.

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Despite Motegi not being one of Jorge Lorenzo´s best circuits in terms of results the young Fiat Yamaha star is looking forward to starting the season´s intense final series of races in Japan this weekend.
The double 250cc World Champion heads into the flyaway tour of Japan, Australia and Malaysia in a highly positive frame of mind following his Misano and Indianapolis rostrum appearances.
Lorenzo is well-aware of the manufacturing and racing heritage which makes the World Championship´s visit to the `Land of the Rising Sun´ such a special occasion, declaring, `Japan is an incredible country, with very different customs to those that we´re used to in Europe. I always look forward to going back there.´
`Yamaha have planned a series of activities for me before the race, including a visit to the factory at Iwata, which I am really looking forward to. It has been a year since I signed my contract with Yamaha, but I still haven´t visited their factory. I am sure it will amaze me.´
The 21 year-old is keen to improve on his Motegi record, meanwhile, having scored just one podium at the circuit during his sensational rise through the smaller Grand Prix classes, a third place in the 250cc race in 2006.
`Motegi is the first circuit on our Pacific tour and I have high hopes for success there,´ stated Lorenzo. `After the two podiums of Misano and Indianapolis, the team and I want to give Yamaha another similar performance because this race is very important for the brand. I trust in the work Michelin are doing with the tyres, although Motegi is one of the few circuits at which I have never won. I did get the first-ever fastest lap of my career there however, in 2003. I am looking forward to it.´
Team manager on Lorenzo´s side of the partitioned Fiat Yamaha garage, Daniele Romagnoli, is setting some demanding targets for his MotoGP rookie charge as the season concludes, though the Majorcan star has risen to the challenge throughout his dramatic debut premier class campaign.
`Not only are we all backing Valentino Rossi to win the riders´ championship but we´re working hard together to win the constructors´ and teams´ titles too,´ said Romagnoli. `We hope Jorge can make a big contribution to that, as he has done all season, and we go to Japan in a very positive frame of mind. From our side of the garage we can´t help but look at the possibility of finishing third in the championship but our real target is to have more good races, some more podiums and maybe even celebrate one more victory before the end of the season.´

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Criville ready to ride again at Motegi

Monday, 22 September 2008
The 1999 World Champion Alex Criville will be on track at Motegi on Saturday on a Honda NSR500, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of MotoGP racing at the Japanese circuit.

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Alex Criville will be back in his World Championship leathers this coming weekend in Japan, as he rolls out the Honda NSR500 once more as part of Motegi´s `tenth anniversary in MotoGP´ celebrations.
A number of former HRC riders are set to join Criville on track at the Twin Ring circuit on Saturday, with a series of demonstration laps on Honda machinery from the renowned museum at the Japanese venue.
Ahead of the celebratory events motogp.com caught up with ex-Repsol Honda star Criville to get his thoughts on remounting the NSR500 which he rode to World title glory in 1999.
What do you remember about that first race at Motegi in 1999?
`Well, the rain was crazy! Kenny Roberts Jr made a great start and Mick Doohan went after him, chasing him down. In the wet every rider takes the race as he can. That was the second race of the year and I wanted to be careful and not take too many risks, even though I wanted to maintain a good position in the World Championship. I was fighting with Norick Abe and Sete Gibernau and at the end I crossed the line fourth, in my first race at Motegi and in fact that was my best result ever there.´
How does it feel to be getting back on a 500cc at Motegi? Are you looking forward to the celebrations?
`It will be amazing. To have that feeling of riding the NSR500 again and with Mick Doohan and Freddie Spencer will be a real pleasure. I guess it is like going back in time! It is superb that on the Japanese Grand Prix weekend we can celebrate the anniversary like this, with the Honda bosses arranging for the old bikes to come out of retirement in the museum and to put them back out on the track. We have to thank them for acknowledging the heritage of the sport like this and as soon as they asked me to participate of course I said yes.´
Did you like the circuit as a rider?
`The track is very good. It has two or three unique features which make it different. The back straight and the braking point at the end. The part just before you go through the tunnel which then brings you onto the last section and on which the races are normally decided. For me the first corner was really tricky, it is difficult to take it correctly. We have seen, and always will see, great racing at Motegi.´
Criville will participate in the tenth anniversary celebrations at Motegi early on Saturday afternoon, from 12.30pm to 12.50pm local time.

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Historical highlights from the Japanese GP

Monday, 22 September 2008
A look back over the last ten years of World Championship visits to Japan.

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In the accompanying video motogp.com recalls some of the highlights of MotoGP´s Far Eastern adventures in Japan, at the current home of the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, Motegi, and the former Japanese GP circuit of Suzuka.
First introduced to the World Championship calendar in 1999 for the Japanese GP, Motegi was the host venue for the Pacific Grand Prix from 2000-2004, after which it took over from Suzuka full-time as the home of the Grand Prix of Japan.
In 1999 Kenny Roberts won the first ever 500cc Motegi Grand Prix race on a Suzuki, ahead of Mick Doohan on a Honda and Norick Abe on a Yamaha.
The following year for the first time two Grand Prix events were held in Japan - the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka and the Pacific Grand Prix at Motegi and this arrangement continued for a further three years. At Suzuka in 2000 all three races were won by home riders, (500cc - Norick Abe, 250cc – Daijiro Kato, 125cc - Youichi Ui). This was the first time that Japanese riders had won in all three classes at the same Grand Prix event.
In 2001 Valentino Rossi won the 500cc race at Suzuka – the 500th Grand Prix win for Honda across all the classes. No stranger to writing his name into the history books Rossi was at it again the next year, winning the first ever race of the four-stroke MotoGP era riding the five cylinder Honda 990cc machine.
The 2003 Japanese Grand Prix will always be remembered for the tragic accident that took the life of Japanese star Daijiro Kato. Following this event the Suzuka circuit was considered too dangerous for Grand Prix racing and all subsequent Japanese GPs have been held at Motegi.
In 2005, meanwhile, Loris Capirossi riding a Ducati became the first man to win a premier-class Grand Prix in Japan on a non-Japanese motorcycle.

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MotoGP title battle turns full circle at Motegi

Monday, 22 September 2008
The 28th September A-Style Grand Prix of Japan is an opportunity to take a sixth World Championship for Valentino Rossi, and a return to the last chance saloon for Casey Stoner.

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As the MotoGP World Championship enters the home stretch of flyaway races before its finale in Valencia, Twin Ring Motegi will host the fifteenth event of 2008 on 28th September, for the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan.
The 2008 title winner could potentially be crowned at this latest 800cc showdown and, in an about turn from this time last season, it is Valentino Rossi who has the chance of confirming the World Championship in Japan at the expense of Casey Stoner. Arriving at Motegi with an 87-point advantage, with the honour of being the winner of the most premier class races in history secured and on a four-race winning streak, Rossi needs only to finish fourth in Japan to clinch his sixth MotoGP trophy.
That does not mean that all is said and done, however. Last year Rossi conceded the title in discreet fashion in the MotoGP race, dropping down to thirteenth with a mechanical problem in a situation that permitted Stoner the luxury of not having to push for higher than sixth.
Rossi has only won once before at Motegi, onboard a 500cc Honda back in 2001. This year he can even afford a maiden victory in Japan for Stoner, whose return to Japan could see him conceding the title almost a year to the day after winning it.
Stoner may only have the slimmest of chances to prevent Rossi from experiencing his sixth MotoGP title, but he is still in the driving seat for the runner-up spot in the 2008 season. The Ducati rider has a seven point advantage over Repsol Honda´s Dani Pedrosa, who is currently on a run of five races without a podium – the longest of his Grand Prix career since his first top three in 2001.
One rider who has stepped onto the rostrum in recent weeks is Jorge Lorenzo, Rossi´s Fiat Yamaha teammate. The Spaniard has regained confidence lost after a series of crashes to take two front rows and podiums in as many races, making him a dark horse for the runner-up spot and giving some breathing space in the Rookie of the Year battle.
Lorenzo´s perennial rival and fellow debutant Andrea Dovizioso finished on the podium at last year´s 250cc race in Japan, setting the fastest lap of the contest in the process. The future of his JiR Team Scot outfit, and as a result his own destination for 2009, is set to be announced at Motegi.
With their own teams for next season already established, Chris Vermeulen, Colin Edwards and Nicky Hayden are separated by just 13 points in their quest for a top six finish in 2008. Whilst the former duo have renewed their contracts with Japanese factories Suzuki and Yamaha, respectively, a move from Honda to Ducati for Hayden at the end of the year has been recently confirmed.
Home rider Shinya Nakano and Alice Team´s Toni Elias complete the top ten in the category, ahead of Motegi racewinner for the last three years Loris Capirossi.

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No pressure for Rossi ahead of potential title decider

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
87 points clear in the MotoGP standings and with the chance to seal the title this weekend, Valentino Rossi can afford to be relaxed ahead of the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan.

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As has been the case for the last eight seasons, Valentino Rossi is one of the protagonists of what could be the final fight of the year for the MotoGP World Championship. In a stark contrast to the previous two years, however, in 2008 it is the Italian who is firmly in the driving seat, needing at the most a fourth place finish to take his sixth MotoGP title.
For the past two years Rossi has seen ‘his' World Championship confirmed from afar. In 2006 he suffered an early crash at Valencia as Nicky Hayden took the crown, whilst last year he finished thirteenth on the occasion of Casey Stoner´s arrival at the peak of 800cc competition. The series now returns to the scene of the latter event, Twin Ring Motegi in Japan, with the tables well and truly turned –and as a result Rossi is feeling far from pressured.
`We have had a fantastic run of races and now here we are finally, with a `match point´ for the championship, and in Motegi once again!´ says Rossi, the irony of the situation not lost on the Fiat Yamaha rider.
`In 2005 I was in the same situation but I crashed and had to wait for Malaysia to win the title, and then last year we lost the championship in Japan. I really would like to win in Motegi, especially as it´s such an important race for Yamaha and it would be a great reward for them for all of the work they have done.´
Rossi has never won a four-stroke race at Motegi, the track having become something of a bogey circuit for him. However, his current form of four wins on the bounce, second place at four of the last six events at the Japanese circuit since his 500cc triumph in 2001 and without the necessity of victory, there is not too much concern emanating from the Rossi camp.
`We cannot put too much pressure on ourselves and I will try to treat it like another normal race. We have a good margin of points, but there are still four more races so it is still not over! Everyone is very relaxed and focused, my Bridgestone tyres and my M1 are working very well and hopefully we can have another great weekend in Motegi,´ says the title aspirant, who has previously clinched the highest accolade in motorcycle racing in Brazil (2001, 2002), Malaysia (2003, 2005) and Australia (2004).

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Stoner looking forward on return to past glory

Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Memories of his 2007 World Championship triumph are far from Casey Stoner´s mind as he attempts to keep the 2008 series alive.

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Less than a year has passed since Casey Stoner´s coronation as the 2007 king of the premier class, but his reign seems all but certain of coming to an end in the coming weeks. The Ducati rider trails Valentino Rossi by 87 points with a possible century still up for grabs, but will as always be lining up with the desire to show his talent and challenge for the victory –and possibly keep the title hunt alive- on Sunday at Motegi.
`I´ve had a mixed bag of results at Motegi - some good, some bad. Obviously the best memory is of last year with the title victory but as always I prefer to look to the future rather than reflect on the past.´ says a pragmatic Stoner.
`The track has always given me the impression that it is more suited to cars than bikes because it is full of hard braking and acceleration zones and there aren´t many flowing sections. Anyway, it is a fun track and I think it can be good for our bike and tyres,´ he adds of the track at which he took sixth in the 2007 race, won by ex-Ducatista Loris Capirossi at the end of his long spell with the Italian factory.
The possibility of Stoner undergoing early surgery on his troublesome scaphoid had been put forward by both rider and team since the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix, but the Australian appears to have set his sights on a post-season operation.
`The wrist hasn't given me great problems over the last week and seems to be improving on the last couple of weeks so I can't wait to get back on the bike and try to get a better result than we've managed lately.´
Stoner needs to finish ahead of Rossi and at the very least in the top four to deny the Italian the title, and even then several possibilities could still see his rival become World Championship.

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Dovizioso wary of corner acceleration problem

Wednesday, 24 September 2008
Andrea Dovizioso feels that a lack of acceleration could prove a problem at Motegi.

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Honda through-and-through, Andrea Dovizioso is one of the Japanese factory´s main hopes for MotoGP glory at the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan. The Italian has an important few days ahead, with the quest for his first 800cc podium ongoing and his future set to be clarified on race weekend, but the JiR Team Scot rider is well aware of what stands in the way of a rostrum finish.
`At Motegi we have always gone well, I found myself comfortable at the track from the very first time. It is a circuit that reflects the characteristics of the chassis of my Honda, but we could find ourselves in difficulty thanks to the frequent acceleration out of the slow corners,´ analyses the MotoGP rookie, who placed second in the 250cc race at Motegi last year.
`I think we could make a good race and get another good result, as we have in recent races. We are competitive and we have to stay in front with the best. As always we will never give up at this track and a good result has an important meaning here for us as it´s Honda's home circuit.
Dovizioso has finished fourth on three occasions this season, including his MotoGP debut in Qatar, but has yet to step onto the rostrum.

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Back to work in Japan for 250cc competitors

Monday, 22 September 2008
Hungry for a return to action after their cancelled Indianapolis race, the 250cc class resumes activity at Twin Ring Motegi.

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The 250cc class will make its return to action at Motegi, after an aborted American comeback for the quarter-litre class owing to the high winds and rainy conditions at Indianapolis. Current World Championship leader Marco Simoncelli was scheduled to start on pole for the race at The Brickyard, but did not suffer as much as most riders as they lost the chance to make up ground on the Metis Gilera rider.
Twenty-six points split Simoncelli from closest rival Mika Kallio, who has been off the rostrum for the most recent three rounds. Both are gunning for their first World Championship, and have been two of the standout riders in the series this year. Red Bull KTM rider Kallio is expected to have an upgraded machine for the Motegi visit, with the chance to close the gap and put his name into the running for a MotoGP ride in 2009. He was the winner of the 2007 Japanese round.
Alvaro Bautista, Hector Barbera, Alex Debon and Mattia Pasini also feature in the top six in the championship, and all have come into various degrees of contact with each other this season. Bautista won last time out in Misano, but all four hold 250cc victories and the potential to jump up in the standings when the dust settles in Motegi.

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Luthi sidelined for Japan and Australian rounds

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Thomas Luthi will play no part in the next two 250cc races as he recovers from a hand injury.

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Thomas Luthi has been ruled out of the next two Grands Prix, starting with this weekend´s A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, following surgery in his native Switzerland. The Emmi-Caffe Latte rider received a skin graft to his left thumb to heal an injury picked up at the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix, and will be recovering from the operation for the next few weeks.
The ex-125cc World Champion will aim to make his return on the October 19th Polini Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix

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125cc riders head east as title race heats up

Monday, 22 September 2008
25 points separate the top two in the 125cc class, as the series rolls on to Japan.

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Mike di Meglio is the current 125cc World Championship leader, and at the very worst will still be level on points with Simone Corsi at the conclusion of the class´ visit to Japan. He leads the standings by 25 points, meaning that only a Corsi victory and Di Meglio´s failure to finish in the points would put the two level in the standings heading to the antepenultimate round. Di Meglio placed fourth in the wet at Motegi last season, on vastly underpowered machinery.
2007 World Champion Gabor Talmacsi will has had surgery on a scaphoid fracture before the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, having picked up the injury at the worst possible time for his title challenge. He will test his fitness on arrival at Motegi. The title holder trails Ajo Motorsport rider Di Meglio by 43 points in the classification.
Stefan Bradl, and Nico Terol also feature in the top five, and have both taken their maiden wins this season. Jack&Jones WRB man Terol´s triumph came in the curtailed Indianapolis round last time out. Sixth, seventh and eighth placed riders Joan Olive, Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaro, meanwhile, have come close but thus far been unable to open their win account in the lower cylinder class.

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Japanese riders lock horns in pocketbike warmup at Motegi

Thursday, 25 September 2008
Four Japanese riders, including MotoGP man Shinya Nakano, were in pocketbike action at Motegi on Thursday.

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Premier class star Shinya Nakano was getting into competition mode early on Thursday, as he took part in a pocketbike event alongside 250cc standout Yuki Takahashi, Honda test rider Tadayuki Okada and Japanese Superbike participant Kazuki Tokudome at the Twin Ring Motegi pocketbike track. It was Okada who took his MotoGP replica bike past the chequered flag first, edging out Nakano and Takahashi in a battle that was a fun introduction to the weekend´s racing.
The quartet were onboard Honda NSF100 bikes, standard machinery for pocketbike competition. Nakano is accustomed to 100cc action from his initiation to competition, having started riding on a similar bike in his youth.
`I was a pocketbike rider before, and I still remember how it feels to ride bikes like this. It was an enjoyable race,´ said Nakano afterwards.
`I think that the pocketbike stage of a rider´s career is quite important, and that is why now when I want to help young riders I organise a pocketbike race once a year.´
The San Carlo Honda Gresini rider´s future prospects are perhaps less of a reason for smiles, with no contract signed thus far for next season. Current teammate Alex de Angelis´ option of an extension has already been taken up, but Nakano does not necessarily mean that he will be left out in the cold.
`I don´t know about the future yet. The situation appears not to be so easy for me, and it is unclear at the moment,´ admits the 30 year-old.
`In any case, I want to concentrate on the rest of the season, because things can often change after a good result. My goal for Motegi is a podium, which I know will be hard.´
Nakano last stepped onto the rostrum at Assen in 2006, where he took second place onboard a Kawasaki.

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First stop Motegi on MotoGP´s Pacific tour

Thursday, 25 September 2008
The MotoGP World Championship has arrived at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit for the fifteenth Grand Prix of the 2008 season this weekend in Japan.

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Following the novelty a first ever visit to Indianapolis last time out the World Championship calls in on a more traditional venue this weekend as the tenth anniversary of MotoGP racing at Motegi is celebrated with the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan.
The weekend should see the 2009 rider line-up picture become a lot clearer as Honda announce their factory and satellite plans for the coming season - at the circuit which HRC calls home.
In more immediate terms, preliminary events on Thursday will see Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha), Loris Capirossi (Rizla Suzuki), Toni Elias (Alice Team), John Hopkins (Kawasaki Racing) and Randy de Puniet (LCR Honda) representing each of the five different manufacturers in the premier class in the traditional pre-event press conference.
Rossi will be looking forward to a weekend on which he has every chance of confirming a sixth MotoGP World title, having last tasted championship glory in 2005.
In celebration of their home Grand Prix, meanwhile, HRC will host a minibikes race at the Motegi karting track on Thursday morning with the likes of Shinya Nakano (San Carlo Honda Gresini) and Yuki Takahashi (Jir Team Scott) presenting the Honda NSF100 minimoto, which is used in various junior racing competitions.

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Racing numbers for the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan

Thursday, 25 September 2008
This weekend´s race at Motegi is littered with figures regarding the title chase, and also some intriguing figures in the latest Racing Numbers.

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3000 – If Loris Capirossi finishes in the top three at Motegi it would be his 100th podium finish in Grand Prix racing and he would also become just the second rider to pass the milestone of 3000 career points.
135.508 km/h – The Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix had the lowest average speed for a MotoGP race since the very wet race at Donington in 2005, an event won by Valentino Rossi at an average of 132.131 km/h.
69 – Valentino Rossi´s victory at the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix was his 69th victory in the premier class, giving him the all-time record for most wins with one more than Giacomo Agostini.
11 – Race day in Japan will be the eleventh anniversary to the day of the legendary Jorge Martinez´ final appearance on a Grand Prix podium at the Indonesian GP at Sentul, a race won by Valentino Rossi -17 years younger than Martinez.
8 – At the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix Nicolas Terol became the eighth different winner this year in the 125cc class, with four races remaining. In the 60-year history of Grand Prix racing there have only twice been nine different winners in a season in the 125cc category; in 1996 and 2003.
6 – For the first time ever in a Grand Prix race the top six riders across the line in the 125cc race in Indianapolis were all under the age of 20.
6 – At the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix two Michelin riders finished together on the podium for the sixth time this year.
5 – Dani Pedrosa has not finished on the podium in the last five MotoGP races. This is the longest run of races without a top three finish for Pedrosa since he stepped onto the podium for the first time in the 125cc class at Valencia in 2001.
4 – Valentino Rossi´s sequence of four successive race wins is his longest run of wins since 2005, when he had five successive victories.

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Takahashi on the brink of MotoGP move

Thursday, 25 September 2008
Yuki Takahashi could test the Honda RC212V after Valencia, with his move to MotoGP in the future a near-certainty.

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250cc rider Yuki Takahashi´s ascension to MotoGP is expected to be announced this weekend, and the JiR Team Scot man has revealed that he could have his first ride on an 800cc machine as soon as the post-season test at Valencia.
With his current team´s plans for a split to be divulged further on Friday, Japanese rider Takahashi is expected to play an important part in Honda´s plans to field a home competitor in the premier class as a replacement for Andrea Dovizioso. Takahashi admitted that a move was close to completion at the Thursday pocketbike event, in which he raced against some of Honda´s other Japanese motorcycle competitors.
`We are almost certain to move up to MotoGP, so I am really happy about this,´ said Takahashi. `I like the team and they are a good fit for me.
`I never rode a MotoGP bike before and, although I am excited, I´m also worried at the same time. It will be an interesting feeling, and maybe after this season is over I will try to ride the 800cc bike.´
Before that, however, the Japanese rider has a home race to contest –his first chance to ride against the other quarter litre class competitors since Misano after the cancelation of the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix.
`I will have a lot of family, friends and sponsors here, so I want to get a good result. I was ready to ride at the last round, so I was hoping that they would have two races here!´ joked the local star.

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Motegi tyre performance creates intrigue for Rossi

Thursday, 25 September 2008
Fast on Michelin rubber in Motegi last year, Valentino Rossi is eager to see how his Bridgestone tyres fare at the Japanese track.

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Riding in a home Grand Prix for tyre manufacturer Bridgestone for the first time, MotoGP title favourite Valentino Rossi says that he is interested to see how former associates Michelin perform at the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan. The Italian could clinch his first MotoGP World Championship with Bridgestone rubber this weekend.
`We will have to see about the performance between Bridgestone and Michelin,´ said Rossi in the pre-event press conference at Twin Ring Motegi. `This circuit has always been a great one for Bridgestone in the past, but last year myself and Dani Pedrosa were a bit faster than the Bridgestone riders.´
Both Rossi and Pedrosa are now on Bridgestone rubber for the return to the scene of the manufacturer´s first MotoGP title, with Rossi able to make it two if he places fourth or higher. The Fiat Yamaha rider has just one victory to his name at Motegi in the premier class, but is confident ahead of the Sunday race.
`I have had a lot of podiums here, but not so many victories. Last year I was unlucky, because in the dry I was fast but I had problems when it rained a lot on Sunday. We will see,´ said Rossi, who also faced questions in a special Bridgestone `talk show´, held in Roppongi on Wednesday and separated into two parts: one in which the 29 year-old and other Bridgestone riders were put on the spot by journalists, and another for 200 fashion and motorsport bloggers.
Tyres were a big focus of last year´s A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, with the proposal to move to a control tyre made to the Grand Prix Commission after discussions in Motegi

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Hayden excited about 2009 Ducati prospects

Thursday, 25 September 2008
As the consummate professional Nicky Hayden will give 100% for the rest of the year with Repsol Honda, but he admits he is excited about moving to Ducati for the 2009 campaign.

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Following his perfectly-timed first podium of the season at his new home Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the last round, Nicky Hayden is in a buoyant mood at Motegi.
Despite still walking with a limp due to his ongoing foot injury, the 2006 World Champion is determined to do well in his last four races with Repsol Honda – before he heads to Ducati Marlboro at the end of the year.
Reflecting on his dramatic second place in the hurricane-affected Indianapolis race Hayden commented, `It was a good weekend for me. You know I hadn´t had a lot of good weekends recently so it was nice to be able to go home with a smile on my face. I have tried to milk it as much as I can! Now it is time to focus on Motegi but it was a good weekend for me, my fans and everyone behind me, so now I am looking forward to these last four (races).´
Hayden´s move from Honda to Ducati was hardly a secret before it was made official on the Monday after the Indianapolis weekend, but with the announcement now out in the open the American rider was keen to thank HRC for their support in his years with the Japanese factory.
`We have been together for nine years and I am very grateful for the opportunity they gave me, all the way back to my dirt-track days,´ Hayden stated. `People are waiting for me to start running my mouth about things that went on within the team but I ain´t gonna be the crazy ex-girlfriend and start talking a bunch of trash! It has been great, I mean who wouldn´t have enjoyed spending nine years riding on factory Honda bikes. I have ridden on some great bikes and worked with some great people.´
Highly motivated by his switch onto Italian machinery for next year´s MotoGP World Championship, he added, `I am very excited about this next challenge. I know it is not going to be something easy, just because Casey (Stoner) goes fast on the bike and because it goes fast in a straight line, but I am ready for it.´

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Time Schedule

A-STYLE GRAND PRIX OF JAPAN

Now Showing: Local Time
Friday, 26 September 2008125 FP109:00 - 09:45MotoGP FP110:00 - 11:00250 FP111:15 - 12:15125 QP113:10 - 13:40MotoGP FP213:55 - 14:55250 QP115:10 - 15:55Saturday, 27 September 2008125 FP209:00 - 09:45MotoGP FP310:00 - 11:00250 FP211:15 - 12:15125 QP213:10 - 13:40MotoGP QP13:55 - 14:55250 QP215:10 - 15:55Sunday, 28 September 2008125 WUP08:40 - 09:00250 WUP09:10 - 09:30MotoGP WUP09:40 - 10:05125 RAC11:00250 RAC12:15MotoGP RAC14:00Local Time Zone: GMT +9 hours

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Rossi to commence 2009 YZR-M1 work on Monday at Motegi

Friday, 26 September 2008
With this year´s title already virtually in the bag Valentino Rossi will start working on next season´s Yamaha race package in a brief Motegi test on Monday.

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A champion´s work is never done and even though Valentino Rossi has an excellent chance of securing his sixth MotoGP World Championship on Sunday afternoon in Japan he is expected back on track on Monday morning to help Yamaha with their development of the YZR-M1 for next season.
Although Rossi´s 2008 race machinery and all the equipment his Fiat Yamaha mechanics use on Grand Prix weekends will be packed up and sent onto Phillip Island for round sixteen on Sunday evening, the Italian will undertake a brief test using Yamaha development material.
His Team Manager Davide Brivio explained, `Taking advantage of the opportunity that we have here in Japan, Yamaha wanted to get some initial feedback from Valentino on some parts that might be on the 2009 machine.´
`We are busy with building the 2009 prototype that will be used during the winter test, starting from Valencia after the race. So it is a good opportunity for Valentino to give some comments and see whether the engineers are taking a good direction or not.´
With regard to what the focus of the test would be Brivio added, `In every racing department the development on the engine never stops so for sure you always have to try and improve the engine performance, but also the chassis. We changed the tyre this year so sometimes we have been on the limit with set-up options.´
On managing the development of the 2009 bike on Bridgestone tyres, whilst Rossi´s Fiat Yamaha colleague Jorge Lorenzo and Tech3 Yamaha counterparts James Toseland and Colin Edwards are on Michelin rubber, Brivio went on to say, `The bike has demonstrated that it is competitive on all tyres, but we will try to make more adjustments a possibility.´
`The development is not for Bridgestone tyres, the development is to improve the bike in general. We can say this (2008) bike has been built on Michelin because that was the only information we had to base it on and it has been good on both Michelin and Bridgestone tyres, so that has to be the same for next year.´
`We don´t know what the tyre situation will be,´ Brivio continued, `But anyway the bike has to be good as a base, in itself, and then the set-up and adjustments will make the bike suitable for any tyres.´

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MotoGP
Free Practice Nr. 1

1 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Repsol Honda Team HONDA
2 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Fiat Yamaha Team YAMAHA
3 1 Casey STONER AUS Ducati Marlboro Team DUCATI
4 48 Jorge LORENZO SPA Fiat Yamaha Team YAMAHA
5 50 Sylvain GUINTOLI FRA Alice Team DUCATI
6 56 Shinya NAKANO JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini HONDA
7 24 Toni ELIAS SPA Alice Team DUCATI
8 13 Anthony WEST AUS Kawasaki Racing Team KAWASAKI
9 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA JiR Team Scot MotoGP HONDA
10 7 Chris VERMEULEN AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI
11 15 Alex DE ANGELIS RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini HONDA
12 21 John HOPKINS USA Kawasaki Racing Team KAWASAKI
13 5 Colin EDWARDS USA Tech 3 Yamaha YAMAHA
14 33 Marco MELANDRI ITA Ducati Marlboro Team DUCATI
15 64 Kousuke AKIYOSHI JPN Rizla Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI
16 65 Loris CAPIROSSI ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI
17 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA LCR Honda MotoGP HONDA
18 2 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team HONDA
19 52 James TOSELAND GBR Tech 3 Yamaha YAMAHA

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MotoGP
Free Practice Nr. 2

1 1 Casey STONER AUS Ducati Marlboro Team DUCATI
2 2 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team HONDA
3 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Fiat Yamaha Team YAMAHA
4 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA JiR Team Scot MotoGP HONDA
5 65 Loris CAPIROSSI ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI
6 50 Sylvain GUINTOLI FRA Alice Team DUCATI
7 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Repsol Honda Team HONDA
8 33 Marco MELANDRI ITA Ducati Marlboro Team DUCATI
9 24 Toni ELIAS SPA Alice Team DUCATI
10 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA LCR Honda MotoGP HONDA
11 56 Shinya NAKANO JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini HONDA
12 21 John HOPKINS USA Kawasaki Racing Team KAWASAKI
13 5 Colin EDWARDS USA Tech 3 Yamaha YAMAHA
14 52 James TOSELAND GBR Tech 3 Yamaha YAMAHA
15 48 Jorge LORENZO SPA Fiat Yamaha Team YAMAHA
16 7 Chris VERMEULEN AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI
17 13 Anthony WEST AUS Kawasaki Racing Team KAWASAKI
18 15 Alex DE ANGELIS RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini HONDA
19 64 Kousuke AKIYOSHI JPN Rizla Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI

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Hayden starts strongest in damp first MotoGP practice session

Friday, 26 September 2008
Outgoing Honda star Nicky Hayden opened the MotoGP action in Motegi with the fastest time in Free Practice 1.

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Repsol Honda´s Ducati-bound former World Champion Nicky Hayden began his Motegi swansong for the Japanese factory team with a strong opening run, heading the first MotoGP free practice standings. The American took his RC212V around the former Honda test track in a time of 1´59.773 during a damp session, ahead of the two principal challengers for this year´s title.
Hayden´s time was just over a tenth of a second quicker than the fastest lap by Valentino Rossi, the man who can clinch a sixth MotoGP crown this Sunday. One of only two riders who can keep the corks on the Cava this weekend, reigning World Champion Casey Stoner was a further seven-tenths down on Hayden´s marker.
Rejuvenated after his revelatory wet weather performance at Indianapolis, Jorge Lorenzo relished the opportunity to get onto the damp track on Friday morning. The second Fiat Yamaha rider was the only other rider within a second of Hayden, at a track that has seldom favoured the MotoGP rookie. The top six also included Alice Team´s Sylvain Guintoli and San Carlo Honda Gresini´s home rider Shinya Nakano.
Last year´s podium finisher Toni Elias also featured in the top ten, ahead of Anthony West, Andrea Doviioso and Chris Vermeulen. There were crashes for eleventh-placed Alex de Angelis and Rizla Suzuki wildcard Kousuke Akiyoshi during the session, with many more riders running off track as the conditions caught them out.

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Stoner rises to Motegi challenge on day one in Japan

Friday, 26 September 2008
2007 MotoGP World Champion showed no signs of desisting in the title fight on Friday in Motegi.

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He may be facing an uphill struggle in his quest to keep his World Championship hopes alive, but more could not have been asked of Casey Stoner on Friday in Motegi. The Ducati rider recorded the quickest time of the day in the combined Free Practice standings for the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, with a 1´48.121 lap of the track at which he reached the pinnacle of MotoGP achievement in 2007.
Stoner was seven-hundredths of a second faster than the only other rider with the chance to deny Valentino Rossi a sixth premier class title, Repsol Honda´s Dani Pedrosa. The Spaniard had experienced a difficult morning on a damp track as he adjusted his Motegi setup to Bridgestone tyres, but was on fine form during the afternoon run. Pedrosa´s pace and teammate Nicky Hayden´s morning times will be a positive boost for Honda, who have not had a home winner at Motegi since Makoto Tamada´s 2004 triumph.
Title favourite Rossi was also on the pace on Friday, just under four-tenths of a second slower than Stoner´s quickest lap. The Fiat Yamaha rider had expressed interest in how Michelin-shod riders would fare on-track this weekend in the Thursday press conference, but he formed part of an all-Bridgestone top three on day one. The Fiat Yamaha rider made it three different factories in the top trio, with the news emerging that he will test the 2009 M1 on Monday –perhaps with his sixth MotoGP World Championship already confirmed.
Andrea Dovizioso was the highest placing satellite rider in fourth, and also the fastest man on Michelin rubber in the afternoon run. He formed part of an extremely tightly packed group of riders separated by under a tenth of a second, including racewinner from the past three visits to Motegi Loris Capirossi, Alice Team´s Sylvain Guintoli and 2006 World Champion Hayden, the most mercurial rider on track in the first practice session.
Marco Melandri took the second Ducati Desmosedici GP8 round in the eighth quickest time of the day, placing ahead of 2007 podium finishers Toni Elias and Randy de Puniet in the top ten.

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Debon takes provisional pole for Japanese return

Friday, 26 September 2008
Competing in Japan for the first time since 2005, Alex Debon took provisional pole in Motegi on Friday.

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Alex Debon took provisional pole for the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan on Friday afternoon, despite not having ridden at Twin Ring Motegi in over three years. The Lotus Aprilia rider came back from an early crash in the afternoon session to repeat his free practice form, clocking a 1´52.807 lap which earned him the top spot on the 250cc grid´s first draft.
The provisional front row was separated by under a tenth of a second, with World Championship leader Marco Simoncelli the closest to besting Debon´s marker. Hector Barbera and Hiroshi Aoyama –the winner of the 2005 & 2006 races at Motegi, completed the frontline onboard their respective Team Toth Aprilia and Red Bull KTM machinery.
Winner of the last quarter-litre class round at Misano, Alvaro Bautista made his presence felt with a late lap of 1´53.125, enough to place him at the head of the second row before Saturday´s second qualifying session. The Spaniard bested JiR Team Scot´s home rider Yuki Takahashi, his Mapfre Aspar teammate Hector Faubel and Repsol KTM rider Julian Simon, who completes the second line.

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Olive opens 125cc qualifying with provisional pole

Friday, 26 September 2008
The first 125cc qualifying session at Motegi ended with Joan Olive the fastest rider.

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Joan Olive placed on provisional pole for the 125cc A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, heading a qualifying session that took place on a drying track. The Belson Derbi rider, who finished fifth at the soaking 2007 race at Twin Ring Motegi, is chasing his first pole position in the class, and a 2´02.296 time put him halfway towards his qualifying goal.
Polaris World rider Bradley Smith also pencilled his name onto the front row, the only Aprilia rider to do so in the session as Derbi-armed competitors dominated the top five. The Briton was a tenth of a second down on Olive´s time, with series leader Mike di Meglio and his Ajo Motorsport teammate Dominique Aegerter completing the frontline after the opening session.
Indianapolis poleman and raceday runner-up Pol Espargaro missed out on a provisional front row spot by just 0.029, and leads row two alongside the man who beat him to victory stateside, Nico Terol. Recuperating World Champion Gabor Talmacsi came back from a morning crash to join the trio, with Sandro Cortese completing the second line.
Whilst World Championship leader Di Meglio was able to place in the top four, main challenger Simone Corsi was only capable of 21st on the provisional grid.

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Lorenzo op pole voor Grote Prijs van Japan




Jorge Lorenzo is weer terug op pole-position. De Spaanse debutant maakte aan het begin van het seizoen veel indruk door de eerste drie poles voor zich op te eisen, maar verloor daarna zijn ritme. In de kwalificatie voor de Grote Prijs van Japan hervond Lorenzo weer zijn vorm. Hij stuurde de Yamaha M1 op de Twin Ring Motegi naar een spectaculaire 1.45.543 en troefde daarmee kampioenen Casey Stoner en Nicky Hayden af. Titeljager Valentino Rossi start zondag als vierde.


Na de zomerstop was er weer een stijgende lijn zichtbaar bij Lorenzo, die in San Marino en Amerika weer op het podium klom. Na poles en podiumplaatsen in Quatar, Jerez en Portugal kende de Spanjaard een serie van teleurstellende resultaten, waarbij hij een paar keer hard ten val kwam. Het zelfvertrouwen was halverwege het seizoen dan ook volledig weg.

Op Motegi lijkt alles weer op zijn plaats te vallen. Lorenzo klokte zijn beste tijd bij het vallen van de vlag. Op dat moment had hij al tien minuten de pole in handen. Met uiteindelijk 1.45.543 was de Yamaha-rijder bijna drie tienden van een seconde sneller dan Stoner, die tijdens de vrije trainingen nog bovenaan stond. Lorenzo tekende daarmee voor zijn vierde MotoGP-pole uit zijn loopbaan en de eerste voor Michelin sinds de Grote Prijs van Frankrijk.

Aanvankelijk leek Stoner ook de pole voor zich op te eisen. De wereldkampioen van 2007 reed zowel met racebanden als met het kwalificatierubber zeer rappe tijden. Hij klokte in zijn zestiende ronde 1.45.831, maar wist deze tijd daarna niet meer te verbeteren. Ook Hayden en Rossi beten zich in een ultieme poging stuk op de tijd van Lorenzo, waarbij Hayden nog bijna een aanvaring had met Anthony West.

Dani Pedrosa kwam met een vijfde plaats redelijk voor de dag op zijn Honda met Bridgestones. Ook Loris Capirossi, die de laatste drie edities wist te winnen, deed het goed met de zesde tijd en een plek op de tweede startrij. Hij liet Colin Edwards, Randy de Puniet en thuisrijder Shinya Nakano achter zich. James Toseland maakte het Yamaha-succes compleet door de vierde machine in de top-tien te rijden.

Met een relatief prima elfde plaats redde John Hopkins de eer voor Kawasaki. De langzaamste man was wederom wildcard-rijder Kousuke Akiyoshi. Hij moest bijna een seconde toegeven op de achttiende tijd van een ongelukkige Alex de Angelis. De jonge rijder uit San Marino smakte in de slotfase hard tegen het asfalt. Hij bleef gelukkig ongedeerd.
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Twas serieus spannend wi. Vroeg opgestaan om live te kunnen kijken :PDT_ura1::PDT_ura1::PDT_ura1:

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De Lorre et em gelapt met z'n michelins in 't hol van bridgestone :applaus::applaus:

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Five-star Simoncelli takes another 250cc pole

Saturday, 27 September 2008
Pole position for the 250cc A-Style Grand Prix of Japan went to Marco Simoncelli.

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Marco Simoncelli took his fifth 250cc pole position of the season with the fastest lap of the second quarter-litre qualifying session, with a 1´51.473 time denying 2005 & 2006 Motegi racewinner Hiroshi Aoyama the top spot for his home Grand Prix. The Italian took his Metis Gilera RSA round the Japanese circuit some 1.4 seconds faster than his provisional front row time from Friday.
Aoyama joins the World Championship leader on the frontline as he makes his own charge for a first win of 2008, whilst provisional poleman Alex Debon held on to a place on the first row. Rounding off the top four in the 250cc run was Aoyama´s Red Bull KTM teammate Mika Kallio, the winner of last year´s race and a contender for this year´s title. The track has been KTM territory over the past three years, but this season features two powerful foes for the Austrian factory in the form of the Gilera and Aprilia machines alongside them.
Mapfre Aspar rider and frequent podium finisher Alvaro Bautista heads the second row, alongside teammate Hector Faubel, Julian Simon and home rider Yuki Takahashi, who was announced yesterday as an entrant in the MotoGP World Championship for 2009.
Although he had done enough for a third row start in the opening qualifying session, Hector Barbera will not be in action at the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan after crashing in the Saturday morning Free Practice session. The Team Toth Aprilia rider picked up fractures to his fourth and fifth thoracic vertebra, and has been withdrawn from the next three Grands Prix as a precaution.

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Twas serieus spannend wi. Vroeg opgestaan om live te kunnen kijken :PDT_ura1::PDT_ura1::PDT_ura1:
ze tonen het vanavond op eurosport.
voor die het nog niet gezien hebben.

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Di Meglio takes first career pole for Motegi showdown

Saturday, 27 September 2008
Mike di Meglio will start from pole on Sunday for the first time in his Grand Prix career.

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125cc World Champipnship leader Mike di Meglio will start the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan from pole position on Sunday, the first qualifying top spot of his Grand Prix career. The Frenchman was the frontrunner in a second qualifying session in which improved track conditions were reflected by the lower cylinder category lap times, with every rider dropping their Friday markers. Riding the Ajo Motorsport Derbi machine, Di Meglio clocked a 1´58.678 lap of which no other rider could get within three-tenths of a second.
Joining him on the front row, Stefan Bradl placed on the frontline for the second race in succession, joined by Indianapolis racewinner Nico Terol in another sterling showing for the young Spaniard. Terol was pushing for pole late on in the session, but saw his front wheel raise up and create a nervous moment with the WRB Jack&Jones Aprilia man.
Emmi-Caffe Latte´s Sandro Cortese completes the first line, in the top four at the start of a race for the first time this season, in doing so relegating reigning World Champion Gabor Talmacsi to row two. Scott Redding, Dominique Aegerter and Pol Espargaro will be lining up alongside the Bancaja Aspar rider.
Provisional poleman Joan Olive could only manage twelfth in the session, whilst title contender Simone Corsi will start from fifteenth on the grid.

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Stoner confident of battling for Motegi victory

Saturday, 27 September 2008
Second on the grid for the second round in succession, Casey Stoner is hopeful of having a good race on Sunday in Japan.

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Last year he won the title at Motegi despite qualifying ninth and finishing sixth in the race, but this time around Casey Stoner is looking far more comfortable at the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, having qualified in second position.
Matching his Indianapolis grid position, following his long run of successive poles this season, Stoner was also looking good in race trim on Saturday at the Twin Ring circuit – topping the third free practice timesheet ahead of pole man Jorge Lorenzo in the morning session.
Stoner may even have taken pole himself had it not been for some unusual intervention from a Japanese insect as he explained to motogp.com, `Unfortunately when it came to qualifying I put my first one on which is always a bit of a run through to see where you can go faster, my second one was a dud and was spinning on every corner and then with my third one as I came up onto the straight to start the lap I got a big bug on my visor! It was impossible to do anything with it.´
The Australian continued, `I was trying to see where I needed to apex and I just couldn´t see properly. I hope that doesn´t happen again tomorrow for the race, but at least we are still second and we are on the front row. We know we have the pace to fight for the victory and it all seems quite close up front so we could see a good battle here.´
Ducati Corse´s MotoGP Project Director Livio Suppo was satisfied with the job his World Champion had done, even if the task of preventing Valentino Rossi from taking Stoner´s title is out of the Italian team´s hands. A podium finish will give Rossi the title even if Stoner wins the Motegi race on Sunday.
`It was pretty good and I think that Casey did a very good job,´ said Suppo, `Unfortunately on the last qualifying tyre he had a problem with a mosquito or something like that, but anyway he is the only Bridgestone rider on the front row. The Michelin qualifying tyres here have been very good. He is also the fastest on race tyres so we hope the weather stays the same tomorrow and he can have a good race.´
On the subject of tyres Suppo and Stoner both played down a rumour which has circulated amongst Italian media that Ducati could be set for a sensational switch to Michelin rubber for 2009.
`When things are going on in this world anything seems possible,´ mused Suppo. `But what is clear to me is that we have two very strong riders for next year. We have helped Bridgestone a lot with the development of their tyres. This year we haven´t won (the title), but another Bridgestone rider is winning, so there is a lot of our effort in the championship at the moment. For us it would be no problem to have a single tyre rule if no-one want to give bikes to the Michelin guys.´
For his part, Stoner added `At the moment we are racing on Bridgestones and from what I hear it could be going to a single tyre rule. I don´t know if that is the best thing for the championship or not, but whatever I am on I am going to be happy. For now I am on Bridgestone and I am ok with that.´

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Disappointed Rossi aiming for podium from fourth

Saturday, 27 September 2008
Too much time working on race tyres was cited by Valentino Rossi as the move that kept him off the front row in Japan.

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Unable to achieve his goal of a front row start for the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, Valentino Rossi is setting his sights on a good start and an eventual podium at Motegi -a result that would give him the MotoGP Wirld Championship as a consequence.
Valentino Rossi - Fourth

`Honestly I´m a bit disappointed because the front row was our target today, but anyway fourth isn´t too bad! Unfortunately we spent a bit too much time with the race tyres and started our qualifying sequence a few minutes late, this meant that I was maybe one or two minutes late going out with my last tyre and I got a bit caught up with traffic when De Angelis fell. Anyway, our race pace is quite good so I am confident that we can be in the fight, although we will have to get a good start. We have one or two small problems that we need to work on so we will use the warm-up to check a few things and I think we can improve a little bit more. I am not thinking about the championship right now, I will just aim for the podium and see what happens.´

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Poleman Lorenzo predicts `fun´ at Motegi

Saturday, 27 September 2008
Jorge Lorenzo is expecting an exciting race at the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, and is not ruling out a victory from pole position.

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Back on pole position after eleven races away, Jorge Lorenzo believes that MotoGP fans will be treated to a closely-fought battle at the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan. The Fiat Yamaha rider took some of the spotlight from his teammate Valentino Rossi on the eve of what could be the Italian´s sixth MotoGP title victory, but will be giving no quarter as he aims for his first Japanese triumph.
`It´s a good feeling to be back on pole again, especially doing so in front of the Yamaha fans here,´ said the 21 year-old after his clocking his record-breaking pole position time at Twin Ring Motegi. `On Sunday we will have fun, because there are a lot of riders who can take the victory.´
The rubber used by the racewinner in Japan also remains wide open, with Michelin having shown themselves to be strong competitors at Bridgestone´s home track. Two riders from the French fabricant –Lorenzo and Repsol Honda man Nicky Hayden- will line up on the front row on Sunday, but for Lorenzo the rear grip with which he struggled so much on Friday afternoon could hamper his attempts at the top step of the podium.
`The qualifying tyres look very good, and the race tyre does not seem so bad, but we are getting a lot of spinning and sliding from the back. If I ride well then I have the chance to win.´
The Motegi circuit is not a favourite of Lorenzo´s, with the Spaniard having never won there and only stepping onto the podium on one occasion in the lower cylinder categories. However, he had a similar record at Estoril, the scene of his maiden MotoGP victory back in April.

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De yamaha van Lorenzo gaat er morgen zo uit zien.

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Lorenzo pays tribute to Monkey Punch´s Lupin III with special Motegi livery

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ROSSI IS WERELDKAMPIOEN

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Rossi takes sixth MotoGP title with Motegi victory

Sunday, 28 September 2008
A win at the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan allowed Valentino Rossi to clinch his sixth premier class World Championship.

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With his eigth victory of the 2008 season, Valentino Rossi sealed his sixth MotoGP World Championship title at the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan. The Fiat Yamaha rider proved unstoppable at Twin Ring Motegi as he relegated outgoing champion Casey Stoner to second place in the 24-lap race.
Rossi had started from the second row of the grid, and looked to be on the back foot when Stoner took the holeshot and attempted to break away. The top three in the standings, Rossi, Stoner and Pedrosa became embroiled in an early battle for supremacy, narrowed down to a duel on lap five courtesy of a hard overtaking move by Stoner on his Spanish rival. The Ducati rider apologised for the pass, which took place on the run-up to the bridge section of the circuit, but still upped the pace in the ensuing laps –with Rossi hot on his tail.
The definitive pass for Rossi came on lap fourteen, and the Italian was able to do what he had done in 2001, 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005: clinch the MotoGP World Championship with a race victory.
Stoner, a valiant foe for his successor over the course of the year, returned to the podium after three races off the rostrum. Whilst it was not enough to prevent Rossi from confirming the title, it still marked his first top three finish in Japan in the premier class.
The battle for the final podium place came down to two Spanish stars, with Pedrosa chased down by poleman Jorge Lorenzo. The Repsol Honda rider was put under pressure by the Fiat Yamaha rookie, and the two rivals clipped wheels on the final lap. Neither hit the asphalt, but Lorenzo was left without the chance of maintaining his run of top three finishes.
Nicky Hayden and Loris Capirossi rounded off the top six, with the experienced Italian unable to repeat his winning ways of the past three years at Motegi. Colin Edwards, Shinya Nakano and John Hopkins also featured in the top ten, with the only crash of the race coming from Rizla Suzuki wildcard Kousuke Akiyoshi.

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Motegi podium thoughts from MotoGP top three

Sunday, 28 September 2008
The top three in the A-Style Grand Prix of Japan, including racewinner and new World Champion Valentino Rossi, spoke after the Motegi race.

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Valentino Rossi – Race Winner

`It´s difficult to compare titles, but this one definitely feels great. I feel very good, because the battle was very tough this year, especially with Stoner and Pedrosa. It has been a long season with a lot of hard races. In my career I have been lucky and have won some hard championships –like the first with Yamaha in 2004-, but this one I maybe tried to put more effort in outside of the races to try and win. I have to thank everyone at Yamaha for their efforts this year, the M1 has been very fast and we have worked very hard every weekend. Today was a great battle and a great race, and to win the championship with a race win is fantastic.´Casey Stoner – Second Placed

`At the beginning of the race everything felt quite good; I made mistake on a cold tyre at the start and needed laps to warm up the tyre. The lap times were fast and I was comfortable at that pace, but didn´t have enough force after a while to change the direction of bike with my physical condition. Valentino went past and I started to lose a little ground, I thought that I could stay behind him for a while, and about three quarters of the way through I didn´t give up, but dropped the pace a little. When I picked it back up I did some reasonable lap times, but just made a little mistake and that was it, race over again. Hopefully the next races and next year we´ll come back stronger.´Dani Pedrosa – Third Placed

`It was good to finish third today, as for the last few races we´ve not had such good results. Also it is great for my team. At the beginning I was not so fast, and not feeling comfortable. At the end Lorenzo came on strong and I had to keep him away. Congratulations to Valentino for his great season, he deserves the championship for his great consistency over the year.´

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ROSSI IS WERELDKAMPIOEN

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Rossi pakt zesde MotoGP-titel met zege in Japan


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Valentino Rossi heeft tijdens de Grote Prijs van Japan zijn zesde MotoGP-wereldtitel in de wacht gesleept. De mondiale publiekslieveling deed dat door op overtuigende wijze te winnen op de Twin Ring Motegi. Vertrokken vanaf de vierde plaats nam Rossi in de veertiende ronde de leiding over van Casey Stoner. De wereldkampioen van vorig jaar finishte als tweede, voor Dani Pedrosa die voor het eerst met Bridgestone het podium mocht beklimmen. Met de zeventigste zege van Rossi werden ook de titels voor zijn team en het merk Yamaha veilig gesteld.


Bij de start van de tiende editie van de Grote Prijs van Japan in Motegi verprutste Jorge Lorenzo al meteen zijn schitterende pole-position. De traag wegkomende Yamaha-rijder zag Stoner, Pedrosa en Nicky Hayden voorbij schieten en voelde de hete adem van teamgenoot Rossi in zijn nek. Rossi, die aan een podiumplek genoeg had voor de titel, wist bij het ingaan van de tweede ronde Lorenzo te verschalken. Een paar bochten verder moest ook ex-kampioen Hayden aan zijn dadendrang geloven.
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Stoner had op dat moment de leiding net afgestaan aan een ontketende Pedrosa. Rossi reed snel naar de twee toe, waarna het drietal met rasse schreden wegliep van de concurrentie. Pedrosa wist het veld enige tijd aan te voeren, maar zag een paar keer de rode Ducati-kuip van Stoner al dreigend naast zich. In de vijfde ronde was het gedaan met het leiderschap van Pedrosa. Met een zeer gewaagde inhaalactie stak Stoner voorbij de Honda-rijder, die daarop ook Rossi meteen langszij zag komen.

De Spanjaard kon niet aanhaken en moest toezien hoe de twee aan de Japanse horizon verdwenen, knokkend voor de wereldtitel. De strijd was heftig. Stoner zag in zijn ooghoeken hoe een getergde Rossi smeet en gooide met zijn M1. De bijna zestigduizend uitzinnige maar gedisciplineerde, Japanse fans sprongen in de veertiende ronde op, toen de benen los van beide machines kwamen bij een inhaalpoging van Rossi. De Italiaan slaagde in zijn missie. Eerzuchtig zou hij de koppositie daarna niet meer afstaan.

Tien ronden lang bereidde Rossi zich voor op zijn ultieme moment van glorie. Na twee seizoenen zonder titel was het eindelijk weer de beurt aan hem. Met een wheelie kwam de 29-jarige Italiaan over de finish en voerde vervolgens weer een van zijn geliefde toneelstukjes op. Op het circuit plofte 'Vale' op een stoel bij een zelf in elkaar geknutseld bureau, om daar bij de notaris de helm voor zijn achtste wereldtitel (6x MotoGP, 1x 250cc en 1x 125cc) te signeren. Even later op het podium was de altijd zo kolderieke Rossi echter zichtbaar geëmotioneerd.

De onttroonde Stoner finishte op bijna twee seconden als tweede. De Spaanse kemphanen Pedrosa en Lorenzo vonden elkaar weer eens in de laatste ronden. De stukken carbon en rubber vlogen traditiegetrouw door de lucht bij het intense duel om de laatste podiumplek, dat door Pedrosa in zijn voordeel werd beslist. Het betekende de eerste podiumfinish met zijn nieuwe bandenleverancier Bridgestone.

Hayden, die gaandeweg steeds verder terugviel, wist uiteindelijk een verzameling jagende rijders achter zich te houden. Drievoudig Motegi-winnaar Loris Capirossi won deze groepsstrijd, voor Colin Edwards, thuisheld Shinya Nakano en Andrea Dovizioso. John Hopkins completeerde de top-tien. Wildcard-rijder Kousuke Akiyoshi beëindigde een zeer teleurstellend weekeinde in het grind. De Suzuki-man was in de openingsronde de eerste uitvaller. Ook merkgenoot Chris Vermeulen haalde de finish niet.
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[veldy]

zijn vorige titel dateerde van 2005. Het cijfer 8 was ook nadrukkelijk aanwezig, want behalve zes kampioenschappen in de koningsklasse, heeft hij ook nog wereldtitels in de 250cc en 125cc op zak.
en als je ziet op zijne t-shirt gaat hij er voor 12(het uurwerk)

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Het Italiaans op zijn t-shirt zegt dat hij zich excuseert tegenover zijn fans om dat hij 2 jaar geen kampioen geweest is :applaus::applaus:

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Dat Vale niet om een stuntje verlegen is wisten we al. In Japan was het weer bingo

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Stoner laat de 1ste keer een gaatje aan de binnenkant ... THE DOCTOR twijfelt niet en rijdt naar zijn 70ste GP-zege

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ROSSI IS WERELDKAMPIOEN

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PPFF tis een foefelaar dien rossi. Wedstrijd was doorgestoken kaart. :eusa_shifty:

Alez een mooie overwinning voor herr doctoor./ :icon_kidra:

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Nie normaal hoe die gasten met een moto kunnen rijden :buig::buig:

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Simoncelli wint 250cc in Japan, Bradl 125cc

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De Italiaan Marco Simoncelli (Gilera) heeft op het circuit van Motegi de GP van Japan in de 250cc-klasse gewonnen, voor de Spaanse Aprilia-piloten Alvaro Bautista en Alex Debon. Simoncelli breidt zo zijn voorsprong uit in de WK-stand, met nog drie manches te gaan. Hij heeft nu 32 punten op Bautista, die de tweede plaats overneemt van de Fin Mika Kallio (KTM), pas 5e.

125cc
In de 125cc-klassen won de Duitser Stefan Bradl (Aprilia), voor de Fransman Mike Di Meglio en de Hongaar Gabor Talmacsi. In de WK-stand heeft leider Di Meglio nu 36 punten voorsprong op de Italiaan Simone Corse, pas 7e. (belga/jv)

Uitslagen en standen

250cc (23 ronden):
1. Marco Simoncelli (Ita/Gilera), de 110.423 km in 43:09.385
2. Alvaro Bautista (Spa/Aprilia) op 0.348
3. Alex Debon (Spa/Aprilia) 8.414
4. Julian Simon (Spa/KTM) 9.151
5. Mika Kallio (Fin/KTM) 17.041

WK-stand 250cc (na 13 manches):
1. Marco Simoncelli (Ita/Gilera) 215 punten
2. Alvaro Bautista (Spa/Aprilia) 183
3. Mika Kallio (Fin/KTM) 175
4. Alex Debon (Spa/Aprilia) 155
5. Hector Barbera (Spa/Aprilia) 142

125cc (20 ronden):
1. Stefan Bradl (Dui/Aprilia), de 96.02 km in 39:57.228
2. Mike Di Meglio (Fra/Derbi) op 0.151
3. Gabor Talmacsi (Hon/Aprilia) 0.281
4. Joan Olive (Spa/Derbi) 5.945
5. Nicolas Terol (Spa/Aprilia) 6.072
7. Simone Corsi (Ita/Aprilia) 6.455

WK-stand 125cc (na 14 manches):
1. Mike di Meglio (Fra/Derbi) 212 punten
2. Simone Corsi (Ita/Aprilia) 176
3. Stefan Bradl (Dui/Aprilia) 167
4. Gabor Talmacsi (Hon/Aprilia) 165
5. Nicolas Terol (Spa/Aprilia) 149

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:director: :kneel: Rossi :buig: