1.MotoGP: Valentino Rossi Wins Dutch GP!
By Cycle News Staff | 6/29/2013 7:28
AM
Photography by Gold & Goose
Valentino Rossi has done it, the nine-time World Champion ending a two and a half
year winless streak to win a classic Dutch MotoGP at the historic Circuit van
Drenthe. It was Rossi’s 80th Grand Prix victory in the premiere class and his
106th GP win and this one may have been one of his finest.
If the win alone wasn’t enough, the circumstances
surrounding it made it even more impressive – especially if you’re Yamaha. With
Jorge Lorenzo suffering a broken collarbone on Thursday, things were looking
dismal for the team. Rossi was on form, but Lorenzo looked to be out of the
race. Then things changed. Lorenzo had surgery in Spain on Thursday night, flew
back to Holland on Friday and took part in morning warm-up today after being
declared fit to race. Then the World Champion went out and battled near the
front, finishing an amazing fifth just some 36 hours after undergoing surgery.
Lorenzo and Yamaha were helped even
more with Rossi winning and Monster Tech 3 Yamaha’s Cal Crutchlow doing his
part in beating championship leader Dani Pedrosa and keeping the Repsol Honda
off the podium at the same time.
When the dust had cleared, broken
collarbone and all, Lorenzo only lost two points to Pedrosa. Remarkable. He
leaves Assen nine points behind his Spanish rival, 136-127.
A better script couldn’t have been
written for this one with the drama surrounding Lorenzo and then the classic
victory by the sport’s most popular rider. It was Rossi’s first victory since
Sepang in 2010, after which the legend went to Ducati for two dismal seasons.
With 79 GP victories going into this year after re-signing with Yamaha, even
Rossi had doubts that this day would ever come again.
“I’m happy, but I cannot believe,”
Rossi said. “It is a great feeling to be back on the first position. It was a
long, long time from Sepang in 2010 and in these years I make it to me this
question: I can come back on the first position or not? It was tough, but I
never give up and I always work because it’s my passion. I love riding and
racing motorcycle and I have to thank Yamaha for giving me another chance in
the factory team. At the beginning I was not confident in the bike and I have
to find the right balance. But from this race I have the better potential
because I can ride the bike in a better way and today I have to try to win
because this is my day.”
And his day it was.
Rossi took over at the front from
fast-starter Pedrosa on the sixth lap and from there he was never headed, the
Italian inching away to ultimately beat Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez to the line
by 2.170 seconds as the young Spaniard’s hands were full with keeping Crutchlow
at bay in the closing stages. Marquez was also riding injured after crashing
yesterday and suffering a broken pinkie finger on his right hand and broken big
toe on his right foot.
“Today the race, especially in the
beginning, was faster than what I expect. I tried to follow Dani [Pedrosa] but
he was strong and then Valentino [Rossi] passed me and he was also faster than
me. Then I tried to do my best… when I pass Dani I try to catch Valentino but
there was too much risk and also I have some pain on the arm. There was too
much stress and I didn’t have power in the fingers. Even like that, I’m very
happy.”
Crutchlow, who got a bad start from
pole position, found himself in the precarious position of being stuck behind
Lorenzo for several laps as he tried to push toward the front. With 12 laps to
go, however, the Brit was able to safely pass the World Champion and he then
set off after Pedrosa. With six laps to go, Crutchlow made the move on Pedrosa
to take over third place. He then went after Marquez, getting close enough to
hit the Repsol Honda’s rear wheel on the final lap, a move that put Crutchlow
wide and off the track and gave the spot to Marquez.
The Brit recovered to finish third
with Pedrosa crossing the line some seven seconds clear of Lorenzo, Yamaha’s
“man of steel” another 12 seconds ahead of Stefan Bradl, the German having
spent the race mostly alone in sixth.
“I think we touched,” Crutchlow said
of his last-lap battle with Marquez. “I said to Marc I wanted him to see after
the race what Dani sees on TV. It was a difficult race and it was too little
too late. I felt we had the potential to challenge Valentino in the front
today, but I started too slow again - the first five laps I was wide in all the
corners. I am very happy. We have three podiums this early on in the season and
it’s good for the championship and we’re making good steps this year. I’m
pleased and I’m pleased for the Monster Energy Tech 3 team. We’ve arrived on
the podium after my first pole position this weekend.”
Fun & Go Honda’s Alvaro Bautista
ended up seventh after holding off the advances of top CRT man Aleix Espargaro.
Monster Tech 3 Yamaha’s Bradley
Smith closed in on the two factory Ducatis in the final laps and beat both of
them for ninth. Andrea Dovizisio was 10th with his Marlboro Ducati teammate
Nicky Hayden 11th.
Dutch MotoGP
1.
Valentino Rossi (Yamaha)
2.
Marc Marquez (Honda)
3.
Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha)
4.
Dani Pedrosa (Honda)
5.
Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha)
6.
Stefan Bradl (Honda)
7.
Alvaro Bautista (Honda)
8.
Aleix Espargaro (ART)
9.
Bradley Smith(kawasaki)
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06.00
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Di dunia, ada banyak sekali kolam
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akan keindahan pemandangan bawah lautnya.
