Valencia 2010
LAST RACE OF THE SEASON AND SO WHICH RIDER WANTED TO WIN IT MOST? VALENTINO ROSSI? LAST RACE FOR YAMAHA BEFORE GOING TO DUCATI. CASEY STONER? LAST RACE FOR DUCATI BEFORE GOING TO HONDA. DANI PEDROSA? TO KEEP ROSSI AT BAY IN THE FIGHT FOR SECOND IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP. JORGE LORENZO? TO BREAK THE ALL-TIME RECORD FOR POINTS WON IN A SEASON.
CASEY WIPED THE FLOOR WITH EVERYONE IN QUALIFYING TO TAKE POLE, AS HE DID LAST YEAR. UNLIKE LAST YEAR HE DIDN'T CRASH ON THE WARM UP LAP. JORGE WAS IN SECOND PLACE ON THE GRID, AHEAD OF A MUCH IMPROVED MARCO SIMONCELLI WHO IN TURN WAS AHEAD OF VALENTINO IN 4TH. DANI WAS DOWN IN 8TH.
WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT, CASEY TOOK THE LEAD, DANI WAS BRIEFLY IN 2ND PLACE BY TURN 1 BUT HAD TO SLOT IN BEHIND NICKY HAYDEN WHILST BOTH JORGE AND VALENTINO WERE BACK IN THE PACK BEHIND MARCO. NICKY CRASHED OUT EARLY AND JORGE AND VALENTINO SOON RECOVERED TO FIGHT FOR THE ROSTRUM PLACES. LORENZO AND SIMONCELLI MADE CONTACT AND JORGE NOT ONLY CAME OFF WORST TO DROP BACK TO 7TH BUT HE PERFORMED A MIRACLE TO STILL BE RIDING!
DANI, AS EXPECTED, WAS HAMPERED BY HIS STILL-HEALING LEFT COLLAR-BONE ON THIS LEFT-HAND CIRCUIT AND DROPPED BACK WHILST LORENZO GRADUALLY PICKED UP PLACES AND EVENTUALLY TOOK THE LEAD FROM STONER, WHOSE RACE PACE WAS NOT QUITE AS ELECTRIC AS HIS QUALIFYING PACE. VALENTINO HAD BRIEFLY CHALLENGED FOR THE LEAD BUT DID NOT HAVE THE PACE AND JORGE WENT ON TO WIN AND BREAK THE POINTS RECORD.
THE OTHER THREE HAD ACHIEVED A GOOD RESULT EVEN THOUGH NOT THE BEST THEY HAD HOPED FOR PRIOR TO THE RACE. DANI FINISHED 7TH, ENOUGH POINTS TO SECURE 2ND PLACE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP, VALENTINO HAD AT LEAST FINISHED ON THE PODIUM IN HIS LAST YAMAHA RACE AS HAD CASEY FOR HIS LAST DUCATI RACE.
TESTING THE 2011 BIKES STARTS 2 DAYS AFTER THIS RACE AND THAT WILL BE VERY INTERESTING - ROSSI'S FIRST RIDE ON A DUCATI, STONER SIMILARLY ON A HONDA, AND AGAINST DANI, WHILST JORGE WILL JUST BE JORGE ON A YAMAHA. PLUS ALL THE OTHER RIDER CHANGES SUCH AS BEN SPIES RIDING THE FULL WORKS YAMAHA AS ROSSI'S REPLACEMENT.
STARTING GRID
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| 1.
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Casey Stoner
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| 2.
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Jorge Lorenzo
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| 3.
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Marco Simoncelli
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| 4.
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Valentino Rossi
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| 5.
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Nicky Hayden
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| 6.
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Ben Spies
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| 7.
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Colin Edwards
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| 8.
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Dani Pedrosa
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| 9.
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Andrea Dovizioso
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| 10.
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Marco Melandri
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| 11.
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Randy de Puniet
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| 12.
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Aleix Espargaro
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| 13.
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Hector Barbera
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| 14.
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Loris Capirossi
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| 15.
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Hiroshi Aoyama
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| 16.
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Carlos Checa
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| 17.
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Alvaro Bautista
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RESULT
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| 1.
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Jorge Lorenzo
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| 2.
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Casey Stoner
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| 3.
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Valentino Rossi
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| 4.
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Ben Spies
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| 5.
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Andrea Dovizioso
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| 6.
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Marco Simoncelli
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| 7.
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Dani Pedrosa
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| 8.
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Hector Barbera
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| 9.
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Alvaro Bautista
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CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
Riders :
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| Jorge Lorenzo
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383
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| Dani Pedrosa
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245
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| Valentino Rossi
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233
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| Casey Stoner
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225
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| Andrea Dovizioso
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206
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| Ben Spies
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176
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| Nicky Hayden
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163
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| Marco Simoncelli
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125
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| Randy de Puniet
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116
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Constructors :
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| Yamaha
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404
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| Honda
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342
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| Ducati
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286
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| Suzuki
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108
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Race Results posted by
David Little
8th November 2010
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