wow... What a race. Capirossi KILLED it! I'm not a ducati fan but having another strong bike only makes racing more exciting. Though they were leaps and bounds better then everyone else today. Glad Capirossi is back to 100% too Another good is Rossi holding off the stupid little midget but I'm stunned at Hayden. Mainly that he lost 2 spots at the very end which hurt so bad. Hopkins and Nakano passed him Anyways here's the final results and new world standings:


1 25 65 Loris CAPIROSSI
2 20 46 Valentino ROSSI
3 16 26 Dani PEDROSA
4 13 10 Kenny ROBERTS JR
5 11 33 Marco MELANDRI
6 10 27 Casey STONER
7 9 21 John HOPKINS
8 8 56 Shinya NAKANO
9 7 69 Nicky HAYDEN
10 6 5 Colin EDWARDS
11 5 24 Toni ELIAS
12 4 71 Chris VERMEULEN
13 3 6 Makoto TAMADA
14 2 17 Randy DE PUNIET
15 1 7 Carlos CHECA
16 66 Alex HOFMANN
17 77 James ELLISON
18 22 Ivan SILVA

World Championship:
1 HAYDEN Nicky USA 201
2 PEDROSA Dani SPA 176
3 ROSSI Valentino ITA 163
4 MELANDRI Marco ITA 161
5 CAPIROSSI Loris ITA 151
6 STONER Casey AUS 101
7 ROBERTS JR Kenny USA 92
8 EDWARDS Colin USA 90
9 HOPKINS John USA 83
10 NAKANO Shinya JPN 75
11 TAMADA Makoto JPN 67
12 ELIAS Toni SPA 64
13 VERMEULEN Chris AUS 61
14 GIBERNAU Sete SPA 58
15 CHECA Carlos SPA 54
16 DE PUNIET Randy FRA 23
17 HOFMANN Alex GER 21
18 ELLISON James GBR 20
19 CARDOSO Jose Luis SPA 8

 

Good for Capirossi

Wish I could've watched this but I don't get the SPEED channel here at my moms house.

 

what so bad bout PEDROSA

 

why is that so bad? he gained on Hayden in the championship (personally that's a ) and no way on earth was he gonna pass Rossi and neither were gonna pass Capirossi who consistently was half a second faster then Rossi in second. With like 5-6 laps left he tried and they went back and forth but Rossi decided expletive that spaniard and put a nice size gap on him

 

I see where your coming from, i want to see HAYDEN win and bring it home for the U.S

 

Actually, i believe pedrosa decided to let off, and not try to *** with Rossi because he realized he was pushing his boundries. And that wasnt worth 4 pts..

Its goin to be a tough points chase, but if anyone can do it, its VALENTINO.


GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

that was an awesome race for 2nd the last 5 or so laps, how many seconds did capirossi end up winning by, 7+??

 

I believe 5 seconds. Im sure capirossi slowed his pace twoards the end so he wouldnt wreck.
His bike was setup flawlessly for that track.

 

I'd say the championship is up for grabs with the top 5. Anyone can hit some bad luck and DNF a few races and it looks like ducati is gonna be strong the rest of the year. Melandri is still doing well and well Rossi is Rossi. Pedrosa also has seen all of these tracks and seems to be pretty consistent too. Hopefully though this was the last off weekend for Hayden and he can battle for the lead

 

The only thing I have noticed about Pedrosa that looks odd is..It seems he pushes him self ALOT harder. Just to keep pace.

 

I've actually wondered if him being SO small and light if that's a disadvantage for the turns. Yeah he can accelerate faster in the straights (less weight) but the less weight in the turns can mean it's harder for him to get the grip that the other guys are getting... *shrugs* I do agree that he was pushing real hard and had 3 big slides the first lap

 

man i missed it! do they show a repeat? if so does anyone know when and what time?

ide love to watch it i just slept all day haha

 

nevermind i turned on the tv and found out what it is...

if anyone missed it and wants to see it tune into speed on tuesday at 11am central time to catch the 250 series...then at 12pm central they show the moto gp races

it sucks cuz im sure alot of you guys will be at work but im off so im gonna watch it, cant wait!

whens the next race? im too lazy to look it up..isnt it like september 9th or something?

 

ya the next race is the 9th

 

go Jr.!!!

 

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BLasphemy

 

awesome race - replay is on Speed tomorrow for those interested to watch or TiVo (check speed network website for time)

Capriossi checked-out and didn't look back, great race between Pedrosa and Rossi though!

 

Congrats to Capirossi on his dominating victory but a pretty boring race compared to most of the races this season. Nicky vs Dani and Dani vs Rossi was the saving grace of the race.

 

they said that Hayden had a clutch issue as well as a traction issue. To me it was exciting cause I didn't know where Hayden was gonna finish and wherever he was to me was a huge race

 

woo hoo! i watched it today! what a great race!

best part in my opinion was at around lap 6-5-4-3 - the battle between rossi and pendrosa, they passed each other back and forth about 12 times haha