Fourth place in the Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix was not enough for Jorge Lorenzo to prevent Valentino Rossi from securing this year’s title, after a mechanical fault meant the Spaniard started the race from the back of the grid. Having qualified in second behind Rossi for the race, a problem with his YZR-M1 [...]
Second place at Sepang for the second year in a row – his fourth podium in as many MotoGP seasons at the track – was the result of some hard work from Dani Pedrosa in preparing for wet weather conditions. At the rain-soaked Malaysian circuit, Pedrosa overcame the kind of weather setting that has previously [...]
Valentino Rossi claimed his seventh MotoGP title and his ninth world championship in total by fighting back to third in a wet Malaysian Grand Prix dominated by Casey Stoner. While Stoner (Ducati) blitzed the field from the outset, Rossi had to recover from a first corner error that dropped him to the foot of the [...]
Well, that’s basically it for this year. Alvaro’s title hopes ended this morning in the Sepang gravel, and even though he’ll surely be longing to deliver a win at Valencia to his fans it’s going to be little comfort in a season that had promised so much. Whilst many of us always believed the initial [...]
The 125cc Malaysian Grand Prix followed the script of the previous week’s Australian race almost to the letter, both in its main players and the development of the plot. A group of a dozen riders pushed hard from the outset, with two of those amongst their number -Nico Terol and Bradley Smith- in with a [...]
Valentino Rossi will start the Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix in pole position, as he bids to secure the 2009 FIM MotoGP World Championship at Sepang on Sunday. A best lap of 2’00.518 in qualifying secured the reigning champion pole position for the seventh time this season, with Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa completing [...]
Lap times were incredibly close for the 250cc class again today, with the top eleven separated by just a second in this afternoon’s single qualifying practice for Malaysian Grand Prix. It made for an exciting session in which pole position wasn’t decided until the very last moment, with slipstreams in the final section vital. In [...]
Marc Márquez topped qualifying in the 125cc class, taking pole position on the grid for the second time this season, and the second time in his career. New world champion Julián Simón secured second spot with a final lap which was 0.055s off Márquez’s time, whilst Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar) and Sandro Cortese (Ajo Interwetten) [...]
Jorge Lorenzo made a strong start to his Malaysian Grand Prix weekend by beating Casey Stoner to the fastest time in Friday practice. Just 0.064 seconds separated the Yamaha and the Ducati at the end of the session after a tight battle in the final minutes. Stoner and the two Yamahas had all been within [...]
