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Valentino Rossi victorious at TT Assen
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Valentino Rossi was victorious at the Dutch TT after a show down with Casey Stoner. The former MotoGP world champion was back to his 'old ways' when he worked his way up from 11th on grid to take the lead with only a couple of laps to go. Valentino Rossi showed the world that he has not lost his motivation or spirit and that he is still a serious MotoGP championship contender.Casey Stoner finished in 2nd position after leading most of the race, ahead of reigning MotoGP world champion Nicky Hayden.
Valentino Rossi said about the Dutch TT
"This was an incredible race. I think maybe one of the top five of my career! Clearly starting from 11th is quite lucky for us because I've won a few times from that position, including last year at Sachsenring. Last night I didn't sleep so well and I couldn't have imagined that the race could turn out like this, in fact I was really a little bit worried after the qualifying and didn't know what to expect today! Once I got going though I saw that I had a great pace and so I just rode as hard as I could to get past everyone because I knew then that I could come back to Casey. When I finally got there I was quite tired, as were my tyres, plus he was riding very well and it was hard to overtake him, but my M1 worked brilliantly today and in the last few laps I was able to go past and win. I have to say a big thank you to Michelin and to my team, because today our package was brilliant and I was able to ride at the maximum. I'm so happy to win here in Assen, it's a special place for me and this is a great emotion! It was nice to have a special livery here as well, in the past I haven't been so lucky with new liveries but hopefully today has turned that around! Congratulations to Yamaha for 150 wins, I am glad that we could celebrate like this!"
Race Results Dutch TT
1. Valentino Rossi ITA Yamaha 25 points
2. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati 20 points
3. Nicky Hayden USA Honda 16 points
4. Dani Pedrosa SPA Honda 13 points
5. John Hopkins USA Suzuki 11 points
6. Colin Edwards USA Yamaha 10 points
7. Alex Barros BRA Ducati 9 points
8. Alex Hofmann GER Ducati 8 points
9. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki 7 points
10. Marco Melandri ITA Honda 6 points
11. Carlos Checa SPA Honda 5 points
12. Shinya Nakano JPN Honda 4 points
13. Makoto Tamada JPN Yamaha 3 points
14. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Yamaha 2 points
15. Kurtis Roberts USA Honda KR 1 point
16. Chris Vermeulen AUS Suzuki -
Labels: GP of Holland
Valentino Rossi 11th on grid after wet qualifying session
Valentino Rossi will start from 4th row on the grid after qualifying in 11th position in a wet qualifying session at the Dutch TT. The Doctor was fast during the dry free practice sessions and was even on the top of the timesheets on Friday morning. But Rossi looked uncomfortable in the wet and was much slower all through out the final session.
Valentino Rossi said about the qualifying session:
"For sure today in the wet we had some problems and the fourth row is not great! Of course in order to fight for the victory here I would prefer to be nearer the front, as to win from the fourth row is quite hard!
We've given ourselves a difficult job to do and now I will need to do a perfect race, with no mistakes from start to finish, in order to come back towards the front. I'm quite sad about the weather because I think from the front row I would definitely have been in a position to try to win tomorrow.
As we've proved before however, we know that it's not impossible to make a good race from the fourth row! We need to make the right tyre choice and we need to make a good start, because it's not so easy to pass people here.
Our pace in the dry this morning was good and luckily we're expecting better weather. We'll do our best and see how we go."
Results Qualifying Session Dutch TT
1. Chris Vermeulen AUS Suzuki 1′48.555
2. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati 1′48.572
3. Randy de Puniet FRA Kawasaki 1′49.579
4. Marco Melandri ITA Honda 1′49.679
5. John Hopkins USA Suzuki 1′49.684
6. Colin Edwards USA Yamaha 1′49.691
7. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki 1′49.807
8. Alex Hofmann GER Ducati 1′49.927
9. Dani Pedrosa SPA Honda 1′50.132
10. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati 1′50.169
11. Valentino Rossi ITA Yamaha 1′50.392
12. Alex Barros BRA Ducati 1′50.402
13. Nicky Hayden USA Honda 1′50.581
14. Kurtis Roberts USA Honda KR 1′51.259
15. Shinya Nakano JPN Honda 1′51.827
16. Carlos Checa SPA Honda 1′53.271
17. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Yamaha 1′54.253
18. Makoto Tamada JPN Yamaha 1′57.525
Labels: GP of Holland
Valentino Rossi 4th after Day 1 - GP of Holland
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards came out on track with a new colorscheme in retro style. The new livery on the Yamaha M1 bikes are to celebrate the re-launch of the famous FIAT 500.The Doctor was second fastest in the free practice session in the morning, but ended up 4th in the timesheets in the afternoon session.
Results Free Practice Day 1 - GP of Holland
1. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati 1′37.828
2. Randy de Puniet FRA Kawasaki 1′38.040
3. Nicky Hayden USA Honda 1′38.114
4. Valentino Rossi ITA Yamaha 1′38.148
5. Dani Pedrosa SPA Honda 1′38.221
6. Makoto Tamada JPN Yamaha 1′38.256
7. Colin Edwards USA Yamaha 138.341
8. John Hopkins USA ‘Suzuki 1′38.436
9. Shinya Nakano JPN Honda 1′38.444
10. Alex Barros BRA Ducati 1′38.485
11. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati 1′38.600
12. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Yamaha 1′38.650
13. Carlos Checa SPA Honda 1′38.733
14. Alex Hofmann GER Ducati 1′38.846
15. Chris Vermeulen AUS Suzuki 1′39.152
16. Marco Melandri ITA Honda 1′39.259
17. Toni Elias SPA Honda 1′39.716 *
18. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki 1′39.751
19. Kurtis Roberts USA Honda KR 1′40.835
* Time set in FP1
Labels: GP of Holland
Valentino Rossi 4th in wet Donington Park
“Unfortunately today the conditions were not good for us at all and we had a lot of problems. In the full dry we would have been at our strongest, in full wet we would have been also quite good, but with a drying track like this we struggled a lot. I made a mistake and ran off the track when I was going the best I went during the whole race and then as the track began to dry I had less and less grip; it seems that this year, when the conditions aren’t perfect, we suffer a lot. I had to go very carefully just to be able to finish and, because we were riding with a wet tyre on a dry track, my tyre was destroyed by the end. Colin did a great job in difficult circumstances so congratulations to him. We’ve had a very long meeting tonight and now we have to try to improve the situation for Assen.”
Race Results GP of Great Britain
1. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati 25 points
2. Colin Edwards USA Yamaha 20 points
3. Chris Vermeulen AUS Suzuki 16 points
4. Valentino Rossi ITA Yamaha 13 points
5. John Hopkins USA Suzuki 11 points
6. Randy De Puniet FRA Kawasaki 10 points
7. Alex Barros BRA Ducati 9 points
8. Dani Pedrosa SPA Honda 8 points
9. Alex Hofmann GER Ducati 7 points
10. Marco Melandri ITA Honda 6 points
11. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki 5 points
12. Toni Elias SPA Honda 4 points
13. Kurtis Roberts USA Honda KR 3 points
14. Shinya Nakano JPN Honda 2 points
15. Makoto Tamada JPN Yamaha 1 point
16. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Yamaha -
17. Nicky Hayden USA Honda -
Labels: GP of Great Britain
