MotoGP

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Valentino has succumbed to the pressure put on him by his enemy, Max Biaggi, but recovered from an off-track visit, at one point nine seconds behind the other riders, to overtake seven bikes! Something that is only within reach of a genius like him. Valentino�s fight with himself was the best of a race that Biaggi had wrapped up seven laps from the end. Behind him in a dogfight were Sete, Hayden and Makoto Tamada, who sought a triumph that he could dedicate to his compatriot Daijiro Kato. Rossi caught up at the rate of half a second per lap, but the duel between Sete, Hayden and Tamada made him los time and Biaggi made the most of it to get away from them all. The judges�considered that�the Japanese rider�s manoeuvre was illegal and so he was disqualified. Therefore�Hayden was�third, his first ever�podium in�MotoGP and�Sete fourth.

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�250cc

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Toni El�as was almost as good in 250cc although Manuel Poggiali�s third place took the shine off the victory. Toni El�as has had a perfect weekend; pole, victory and new track record and he has reduced his disadvantage with respect to the man from San Marino by seven points who did not want to be in a struggle with Rolfo. There are 75 points left to fight for, Poggiali now has 18 more than the Honda rider and 30 more than El�as.

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125cc

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The 125cc race has followed this season�s script for the category, with nothing decided right up to the finishing line. H�ctor Barber� came out of his battle with Stoner and Dovizioso victorious, and Pedrosa went ffrom leader to sixth after losing a lead of three seconds because of a broken nut on his bike�s steering damper. Perugini finished ahead of him (4th), but Dani still has a good chance of winning the title as he still has a lead of 39 points in the general. Bad luck accompanied Jorge Lorenzo again; with tyhree laps left, in fourth position, he fell and was out of the points.

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