1. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati Marlboro Team 43min 13.585 secs
2. Valentino Rossi ITA Camel Yamaha Team 43min 18.673 secs
3. Marco Melandri ITA Fortuna Honda 43min 21.963 secs
4. Sete Gibernau SPA Ducati Marlboro Team 43min 23.297 secs
5. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team 43min 25.529 secs
6. Toni Elias SPA Fortuna Honda 43min 31.693 secs
7. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 43min 33.522 secs
8. Colin Edwards USA Camel Yamaha Team 43min 36.077 secs
9. Kenny Roberts Jr USA Team Roberts 43min 40.409 secs
10. Makoto Tamada JPN Konica Minolta Honda 43min 44.555 secs
11. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 43min 52.848 secs
12. John Hopkins USA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 43min 53.025 secs
13. Kousuke Akiyoshi JPN Team Suzuki MotoGP 43min 59.180 secs
14. Carlos Checa SPA Tech 3 Yamaha 44min 3.156 secs
15. James Ellison GBR Tech 3 Yamaha 44min 22.670 secs
16. Alex Hofmann GER Pramac d'Antin MotoGP 44min 25.333 secs

DNF:
Shinya Nakano JPN Kawasaki Racing Team 41min 34.655 secs
Casey Stoner AUS Honda LCR 21min 48.380 secs
Randy de Puniet FRA Kawasaki Racing Team 14min 38.163 secs
Naoki Matsudo JPN Kawasaki Racing Team 14min 51.515 secs
Jose Luis Cardoso SPA Pramac d'Antin MotoGP 2min 1.020 secs

World Standings:
1. Nicky Hayden 236
2. Valentino Rossi 224
3. Marco Melandri 209
4. Loris Capirossi 205
5. Dani Pedrosa 202
6. Casey Stoner 119
7. Kenny Robers Jr 110
8. Colin Edwards 104
9. John Hopkins 101
10. Sete Gibernau 95
11. Chris Vermeulen 91
12. Shinya Nakano 83
13. Toni Elias 81
14. Makoto Tamada 81
15. Carlos Checa 60
16. Randy De Puniet 31
17. Alex Hoffman 25
18. James Ellison 21
19. Jose Luis Cardoso 8
20. Kousuke Akiyoshi 3


Well wow... it was a heck of a race. Capirossi looks like he's riding better then ever as well as the bike just working perfectly. Rossi just couldn't keep up. Hayden had a poor start and was stuck behind Elias for what seemed to be an eternity. Once he got around he closed the gap to Stoner, Nakano, and Gibernau who were in the group ahead of him but it didn't seem like enough. He caught 2 breaks though with Stoner making a mistake and dropping then Nakano wrecked out with 1 lap to go while trying to pass Gibernau. Frankly he should've had the pass but Gibernau cut him off hardcore and Nakano high sided and almost took out Gibernau as well. Stoner ended up losing the front again. It's real odd how he keeps low-siding. He runs michelins and it's the rc211v. I guess it's not setup properly or something. I dunno. Pedrosa secured rookie of the year today as well. Last few races are going to be nail biters that's for sure.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EngineNoO9 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Well wow... it was a heck of a race. Capirossi looks like he's riding better then ever as well as the bike just working perfectly. Rossi just couldn't keep up. Hayden had a poor start and was stuck behind Elias for what seemed to be an eternity. Once he got around he closed the gap to Stoner, Nakano, and Gibernau who were in the group ahead of him but it didn't seem like enough. He caught 2 breaks though with Stoner making a mistake and dropping then Nakano wrecked out with 1 lap to go while trying to pass Gibernau. Frankly he should've had the pass but Gibernau cut him off hardcore and Nakano high sided and almost took out Gibernau as well. Stoner ended up losing the front again. It's real odd how he keeps low-siding. He runs michelins and it's the rc211v. I guess it's not setup properly or something. I dunno. Pedrosa secured rookie of the year today as well. Last few races are going to be nail biters that's for sure.</TD></TR></TABLE>

-Hayden didn't close the gap much, he was still a second back of the nakano-gibernau battle.
-Nakano was no where near making that pass, he tried to stick his nose in and cause Gibernau to run wide. Gibernau held his line like a good racer should and Nakano locked the front to avoid torpedoing him. No highside but it was close to ******* up Valentino's hopes at a title.
-Stoner lost the front because he was a little too aggressive with the trail braking on turn in, nothing to do with his tires or his bike setup, just a rider mistake.

As long as Rossi's bike doesn't pop he'll win the title

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RebornGSR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">-Stoner lost the front because he was a little too aggressive with the trail braking on turn in, nothing to do with his tires or his bike setup, just a rider mistake. </TD></TR></TABLE>
Its the same mistake Stoner made at Laguna and Dani has done it too. Both of them load up the front a bit too much on the brakes sometimes. Just something they'll have to adjust to.

I wanna know what has happened to Pedrosa? I guess the injury is still bothering because damn, he was second in the championship, now he's fifth

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JMU R1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
Its the same mistake Stoner made at Laguna and Dani has done it too. Both of them load up the front a bit too much on the brakes sometimes. Just something they'll have to adjust to.

I wanna know what has happened to Pedrosa? I guess the injury is still bothering because damn, he was second in the championship, now he's fifth </TD></TR></TABLE>

There has to be something up with him but I'm not so sure if it's the injury because he rode well right after it happened but went to **** the last two weekends.

I know it's the knee that he cut open and I think he also broke something on the other leg? I hate him anyway so I don't really care that much

 

Rossi is slowly but surely catching up to Hayden in points..

Stay strong Nicky

 

It's gonna be real close at the finish, and for the people who didn't think that the unenforced penalty for Rossi isn't going to matter...it's totally going to have a bearing on the championship if nicky limps home in the home stretch!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RebornGSR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">-Hayden didn't close the gap much, he was still a second back of the nakano-gibernau battle.
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I'm talking when he initially passed Elias. He was like 3-4 seconds back. Once he got around him he caught up to Stoner who was about a half second down from Nakano. Stoner made a mistake and then Hayden at the closest was about .75 seconds back. That gap however he just couldn't close

 

for Akiyoshi for not coming in last.

Rossi is in a good spot, the pressure is all on Hayden.

edit: just watched the Hayden interview, oh yeah he's worried. lol. Watched Nakano's interview as well, first time I've heard him in Japanese; very well spoken guy.


Modified by Mr. PengUIN at 2:39 AM 9/25/2006

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sup gurl &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Rossi is slowly but surely catching up to Hayden in points..

Stay strong Nicky </TD></TR></TABLE>I don't think, imo, hayden's had consistency since Laguna. Rossi has been closing the gap quickly. If hayden doesn't step it up in the next 2 races, he can kiss that championship goodbye.

 

i do not see hayden holding on to this lead.

he is very lucky nakano tried something stupid.

rossi will win again :sigh: