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posted May 01, 2005 05:59 AM
MotoGP: Shanghai (SPOILER)
I just finished watching the race, live...
Wow! Rossi's the man!
He was only there for 3 days, almost missed the plane, just barely made it to the QP and ends up 6th on the grid. Then just pulls ahead and wins the race -- by a fair margin.
And where the hell did this Olivia Jaque come from? Kawisaki on the podium with the Yamaha and Honda? Who'd have thunk it? I truly believe he could have given Rossi a run for his money with a couple more laps worth of racing.
   
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posted May 01, 2005 05:59 AM
 Edited By: beansbaxter on 1 May 2005 07:06
Kawasaki is on the podium! Holy shiznit this is cool! I want to take my bike out today and do a victory lap! I havent been this happy since Colin Edwards had his first podium win last MotoGP season. But Rossi is just amazing still...he could win the MotoGP on a Schwinn 10-speed!!!
I guess Jacque is from WSBK, he only raced cause he replacing an injured rider!
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posted May 01, 2005 06:01 AM
Edited By: beansbaxter on 1 May 2005 07:08
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posted May 01, 2005 06:20 AM
Valentino Rossi became the first ever winner of a MotoGP event in China as he took an authoritative victory in torrentially wet conditions at the Shanghai International Circuit on Sunday. Rossi took the lead from Kenny Roberts on the fifth lap after the Suzuki rider suffered from a mechanical problem, opening up a clear gap over the rest of the field and looking comfortable until a thrilling finale.
Surprisingly the man to challenge Rossi with a late charge was Olivier Jacque, returning to MotoGP as a replacement for the injured Alex Hofmann at Kawasaki to score his first podium in the class. With seven laps to go Jacque overcame Sete Gibernau in second place and closed in on the World Champion at the front, taking chunks out of the Italian's lead with every lap but running out of time as Rossi took the flag by 1.7 seconds.
"I got off to a good start in the race and I was quite surprised to be at the front so quickly," explained Rossi after the race. "There was a lot of water on the track so I had to keep my concentration at 100%. When I saw Olivier's name on my pit board I didn't understand who it was because they only put an 'O' on there. I thought "who is O?". I thought perhaps it was a Chinese rider - then I realised it was OJ!. At the end of the race he was faster than me but I managed to keep out front and win the race."
Gibernau's disappointment at losing out on second place was compounded on the last lap when he conceded third to his team-mate Marco Melandri after apparently suffering with a mechanical problem. Melandri's second podium of the season moves him up to second place in the championship, 25 points adrift of Rossi, whilst fourth place for Gibernau means he is now fifth overall behind Alex Barros and Max Biaggi, who finished eleventh and fifth respectively today.
Jurgen Van Den Goorbergh capped a day full of surprises as he clinched sixth place on his return to MotoGP as a replacement for the injured Makoto Tamada on the Honda. The Dutchman held off a late charge from John Hopkins, who previously ran off the track after leading the race on the opening lap, fighting back to take a creditable seventh. Colin Edwards, Nicky Hayden and Ruben Xaus completed the top ten.
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posted May 01, 2005 10:32 AM
gotta love the performance put in by Jacque! i imagine the wet weather helped him, but they also say that wet racing is more a test of the rider than a bike, so it's that much more of a compliment to his skills. makes u wonder how temporary he will be after that result?
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posted May 01, 2005 11:13 AM
Olivier Jaques is a former motogp racer as well as former 250 champ ( and contender for several seasons ) , he just hasn't been on a bike in a year .
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posted May 01, 2005 03:14 PM
odd that he hadnt been on a motorcycle for seven months before today's race
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posted May 01, 2005 09:12 PM
The last years for him in motogp he wasn't getting the results needed to stay employed . After so long on the 250's he seemed to have a hard time getting used to the 500's .
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posted May 01, 2005 11:48 PM
I finally gotten around to reading the April Sport Rider where the editor got to ride one of the MOTO GP Suzuki GSV-R rides. Kind of cool to see what he talked about in action.
Suzuki seems way behind on the track versus the street for some reason to me.
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