MOTO GP: Stoner struck again
Australian Casey Stoner (Honda) sailed to the MotoGP title by winning his third race in Silverstone row and unseat the first place in the championship to Spanish Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha), who fell under the English rain on lap nine.
It is the fact that Lorenzo 25 points lost today in Silverstone, but the superiority of the Honda since the season began and, above all, the couple made the Australian and Japanese machine, which forces think that this year Stoner has all the aces in his hand to regain the title they won in 2007, then with the Ducati.
The race at the historic track in central England, was marked by rain and lasted long it took to fall two of the stars of MotoGP, Lorenzo and Italian Marco Simoncelli (Honda) at the beginning of the ninth and tenth lap, respectively, almost the same curve. In the corner of “Abbey” the Alps and “Farm” in Spanish.
In any case, then only with the Italian Dovizioso fighting to be second, because Stoner was already out of reach. Lorenzo struggled to score some points, 20 in second place, which had remained at the head of the table.
Alvaro Bautista (Suzuki) was the first Spanish and matched his best result, the fifth since last year would jump to MotoGP.
The Spanish world champion made a great start from third on the grid, but on the first lap and had been so Stoner and Dovizioso and Simoncelli, while behind the Baptist Elijah was eighth and ninth. Rossi stayed in the twelfth place.
Stoner was soon to land through his first lap in the second turn over Dovizioso, Lorenzo and Simoncelli.
Simoncelli came at the end of the line early in the fourth round, but managed to return to the asphalt of the track waterlogged English, just before Lawrence got a fleeting lap of the race.
This served to hunt Dovizioso, but at the same time, Spanish was caught by Simoncelli. The key moment of the test was about to get there: Lorenzo went to ground after fly over the handlebars of his Yamaha at the start of lap nine and, later, Simoncelli was followed almost the same place, a curve before when he was third.
Behind Rossi had already won six seats. After confessing yesterday that his twelfth place in qualifying had witnessed its worst day of the year, nine-time world champion was now picking up a rival after another, and gradually gained seats, even without having to advance under the rain falls it will benefit you.
Fact: Rossi has only once been on the podium in 2011 and is the fourth in the championship.
Also noteworthy was the third place by American Colin Edwards (Yamaha), who took the podium after Stoner and Dovizioso, nine days after breaking his right collarbone in practice for the Catalunya Grand Prix.
Stoner now totals 116 points after winning in France, Catalonia and Britain, while Lorenzo is 98 for 83 Dovizioso, 68 and 61 Rossi Dani Pedrosa, still recovering from a broken collarbone to three weeks at Le Mans.
Another Spanish, Hector Barbera (Ducati), ended today in eleventh place after beating the Frenchman Randy de Puniet (Ducati) at the end of the race and is twelfth in the standings with 31 points for the 28 Toni Elias (Honda), eighth this afternoon, and 22 Baptist that give the fifteenth.