08-11-2009

THE REPSOL HONDA TEAM PROUD OF HIS GUYS

The Repsol Honda Team lived a very tough day full of emotions, which represented a positive conclusion of the whole season. Despite Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso came home with different results, both of them made the Repsol Honda Team feel proud.
Dani underlined his brilliance at the Valencia circuit courtesy of the best performance he could have ever had. Spaniard started from the second grid position and rode his Honda RC212V in front of all his rivals. Valentino Rossi did not make it and could not reach Pedrosa, who was able to clinch his second MotoGP victory at Valencia. In the Championship Dani gained a precious third place.
“It was great ending the season with a victory” said Dani “overall in front of my home crowd. I’m happy for the team because we worked hard the whole season and finally we made it. I was surprised of the third position in the Championship even if I’m sorry Casey was not in the race”.
Tough start for the Italian Repsol who was left in fourteenth position at the first lap. A lot of determination allowed him to recover ground and battle it out for the seventh position. Unluckily Dovi had to struggle today as well with Ben Spies so that ended in eighth, but he lost one position in the Championship moving from fifth to sixth.
“I had a tough start” stated Dovi “and I lost lot of time even if I made it and overtook many riders. Our aim today was keeping the fifth position in the Championship but we didn’t make it. Anyway the work we did this year was positive and it’ll be useful for next season”.
The 2009 MotoGP World Champion classified second, in front of team mate Jorge Lorenzo, whilst Casey Stoner did not classify because of a crash. In the Championship standings Rossi is the lead rider, followed by Lorenzo and Pedrosa.

THE RACE – THE RESULTS

1 Dani PEDROSA Repsol Honda Team HONDA 46'47.553
2 Valentino ROSSI Fiat Yamaha Team YAMAHA + 2.630
3 Jorge LORENZO Fiat Yamaha Team YAMAHA + 2.913
4 Colin EDWARDS Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA + 32.515
5 Nicky HAYDEN Ducati Marlboro Team DUCATI + 34.585
6 Toni ELIAS San Carlo Honda Gresini HONDA + 34.888
7 Ben SPIES Sterilgarda Yamaha Team YAMAHA + 37.706
8 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Repsol Honda Team HONDA + 38.364
9 Mika KALLIO Pramac Racing DUCATI + 42.491
10 Alex DE ANGELIS San Carlo Honda Gresini HONDA + 43.689

THE CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS

1 ROSSI Valentino ITA 306
2 LORENZO Jorge SPA 261
3 PEDROSA Dani SPA 234
4 STONER Casey AUS 220
5 EDWARDS Colin USA 161
6 DOVIZIOSO Andrea ITA 160
7 ELIAS Toni SPA 115
8 DE ANGELIS Alex RSM 111
9 CAPIROSSI Loris ITA 110
10 MELANDRI Marco ITA 108

250
The last-ever 250cc race ended with Hiroshi Aoyama 2009 World Champion, despite the Japanese ended in seventh at the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana. Bad crash for Marco Simoncelli when he was right in the lead, so Hector Barbera became the top rider and he even climbed on the first podium step, followed by Alvaro Bautista and Raffaele De Rosa. In the Championship Aoyama was followed by Barbera and Simoncelli.

125
Breathtaking duel between the Bancaja Aspar fellows, as Julian Simon imposed his rhythm on Bradley Smith another time. The 2009 World Champion Spaniard overcame the English rider in the final lap, whilst the podium was rounded off by Pol Espargaro. In the Championship standings Simon overtook Smith and Nicolas Terol.