Memories

Valentino Rossi gets first podium ! ! !

But not only that, he gave an interesting race to watch. ^-^

He start on 3rd but when the race start, he drop to 8th place. At that time, i was thingking this is gonna be a great race with Rossi drop to 8th place and there was a sign that rain is going to fall down. And it turns to be i wasn’t wrong !! ^-^ The first 5 laps (if i’m not mistake) there was a constantly overtaking between riders. But thank God there was no fatal accident.

In Mugello, we can see, again, that Yamaha top speed is far, well not too far i think, below Ducati and Honda. In staight line, Rossi’s bike is easly being beat by Dani Pedrosa’s bike. (sigh)

But that’s the plus point in 500 cc. We can not possibly know what will happen in the race. ^-^

Anyway, here’s the race result :

1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team (M) 42min 42.385 secs
2. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (M) 42min 45.459 secs
3. Alex Barros BRA Pramac d’Antin MotoGP (B) 42min 48.341 secs
4. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 42min 48.397 secs
5. John Hopkins USA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 42min 55.629 secs
6. Toni Elias SPA Gresini Honda (B) 43min 1.640 secs
7. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 43min 2.031 secs
8. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 43min 5.195 secs
9. Marco Melandri ITA Gresini Honda (B) 43min 5.222 secs
10. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team (M) 43min 6.798 secs
11. Alex Hofmann GER Pramac d’Antin MotoGP (B) 43min 7.166 secs
12. Colin Edwards USA Fiat Yamaha Team (M) 43min 10.386 secs
13. Shinya Nakano JPN Konica Minolta Honda (M) 43min 19.118 secs
14. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Dunlop Tech 3 Yamaha (D) 43min 27.483 secs
15. Makoto Tamada JPN Dunlop Tech 3 Yamaha (D) 43min 27.530 secs
16. Olivier Jacque FRA Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 43min 27.602 secs
17. Kenny Roberts USA Team Roberts (M) 44min 9.607 secs

Not finnish :

1. Carlos Checa SPA Honda LCR (M)
2. Kurtis Roberts USA Team Roberts (M)
3. Randy de Puniet FRA Kawasaki Racing Team (B)