Special mention must Repsol Honda team
Valentino and Nicky
Finished in fifth place Ben Spies, who started looking forward but was diluted by the arrival of Valentino to the group where he was. Continuing with the regularity and the good work being carried out, Marco Simoncelli has finished sixth, and even we have witnessed in the early stages occupying the third position of the podium. Seventh Colin Edwards finished giving a feeling it would come to contact with Ben and Marco, but stayed in the attempt. For its part, Aleix Espargaro finally achieved a minimally good running eighth position and trying to show that deserves to stay in the Pramac Ducati, but it seems that its site is on the grill Moto2 for next year.
Special mention must Repsol Honda team, as the absence of Dani Pedrosa, remember that yesterday decided to return to Spain to finish recovering from his collarbone and not run, we must add the misfortune of Andrea Dovizioso, who has had to retire to become his Honda on a runaway horse and not be tamed.
Here the general classification also lacks incentive, and the title of Lawrence must add the momentary Pedrosa runner-up, threatened, but not both, by Stoner. It is clear that at this point there are few drivers who look at the table, but everyone wants to finish the season with good taste and submit their credentials for the future.
Well, gone are the early mornings this year. Now we only have Estoril and Valencia lawful few hours. You have to see how fast the season goes, it seems incredible that we are already nearing completion. But hey, time to time, we still have seen a couple of races where there is the odd mystery: Lorenzo win again this season? Dani return “in a position to fight for the races? Will the dominance of Stoner in these closing stages? Or will we see Valentino to give some joy to Yamaha? All these questions will be answered in the last two races of the year. We’ll see.
MotoGP Australia GP race result:
25 January 1927 Casey STONER AUS Ducati Team Ducati 41’09 .128
20 February 1999 Jorge LORENZO SPA Fiat Yamaha Team Yamaha 8598
March 16 1946 Valentino ROSSI ITA Fiat Yamaha Team Yamaha 17,997
13 April 1969 Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Team Ducati 18,035
May 11 1911 Ben SPIES USA Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha Monster 22,211
10 June 1958 Marco ITA SIMONCELLI San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 25,017
7 9 5 Colin EDWARDS USA Tech 3 Yamaha Yamaha Monster 35,168
8 August 1941 Aleix ESPARGARO Racing Team Ducati Pramac SPA 46,194
7 September 1933 Marco MELANDRI ITA Honda San Carlo Honda Gresini 46,294
10 June 1914 PUNIET Randy DE FRA LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 59,635
May 11 1936 Mika Kallio FIN 59,664 Ducati Pramac Racing Team
April 12 1919 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA 59,732 Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki
13 July 3 Interwetten Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN Honda MotoGP Honda 1’05 .029
14 February 1940 Yellow Pages Hector BARBERA SPA Ducati Aspar 1’05 .053
Provisional overall standings:
1 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha 333
2 Dani PEDROSA SPA Honda 228
3 Casey STONER AUS Ducati 205
4 Valentino Rossi Yamaha ITA 197
5 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Honda ITA 179
6 Ben Spies Yamaha USA 163
7 Nicky Hayden USA Ducati 152
8 Marco SIMONCELLI Honda ITA 102
9 Randy DE PUNIET Honda FRA 100
10 Marco MELANDRI Honda ITA 93