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MotoGP
2005 - Round 17 - Valencia Dorna Preview November 1st, 2005 |
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MotoGP
2005 - Round 17 - Valencia Dorna Preview November 1st, 2005 |
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Repsol Honda team-mates Nicky
Hayden and Max Biaggi will be looking to end the season on a
high note in front of a traditionally huge crowd at the Ricardo
Tormo circuit in Spain this coming weekend. Much of the focus in the championship over the last few races has been the huge fight for second place honours. Biaggi had been leading the hunt but slipped from the challenge with two-non finishes and a disappointing 12th place over the last few races. He now lies in fifth place but will be wanting to put on a good show for his army of fans of loyal fans. Before the last race in Turkey, Hayden stood equal on points with Honda-mounted Marco Melandri. Even though Hayden secured his third successive MotoGP podium finish at Istanbul Park, Melandri scored his first victory and now leads the American by nine-points. Hayden will be hoping to turn his previous racing bad luck at the 4.005km circuit into a good result. The 24-year-old secured his first MotoGP front row start at the Spanish circuit in his maiden GP season in 2003 on the way to being awarded the Rookie of the Year prize. Unfortunately he fell in the race that year, as he did in 2004, while fighting for another podium. A run of bad luck won’t have dampened Biaggi’s drive to end the season on a high. The gifted 34-year-old Italian has finished on the podium in 2000, 2002, and 2004 at the traditional end of season party and last year played a major part in proceedings by starting on the front row and finishing second in the race. Over 200,000 fans will flock, over the race weekend, to the tight and twisty track that lies on the outskirts of Valencia where they are afforded a complete view of the action from banks of grandstands that overlook the near stadium track. Max Biaggi “After the race of Turkey, where I've felt a deep sorrow for the twelfth place, the important thing is to look forward and to try to react in a positive way. Valencia can be the correct circuit for this, not only because I have a great memory of last year, when I got a podium finish after having fought for the victory, but because I really like this track, although it’s a particular one, narrow and not so fast. I would like to get a good result for my team.” Nicky Hayden “Valencia is a track I have gone well at in the past, but have never finished the race there in the last two years. On both occasions I have got caught up in it being the last race of the year. I just let it all hang out and unfortunately crashed both years going for it. So I guess this year will be no different other then we want to finish. Marco pulled some big points last week but we won’t quit till the flag flies on Sunday. We came back from a bad start to the season, but it ain’t over yet!”
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2005
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