C.'tolunyo
Cir.uir
c.rrolunyo, spoin
MOTOGP
Briefly...
I
,
EI
a
Robert5 Jr. wo5
stoked
to finish on
the
podium
{or the
firit lime this seoson.
Dqni Pedroro
hil fie
deGk twi.e in spqin.
a
I
aHi
il
t
rtl
tait{
I
-
the
pair
finish every
race from now first
and second,
it will still take
six more races
-
to the
lYalaysian GP -
for Rossi to
gain
the lead. l'4elandri
has 89
points,
Pedrosa
86. and Stoner 65.
Cll
moved
him above l'4ick
Doohan in the hall
of
fame. lt was Rossi's
55th in the
premier
class, one
more than Doohan. Giacomo
Agostini
is his lasr tartet, with 68
wins on
the
way to eight
World
Championships.
Doohan still has
more
points
that
Rossi,
with a total
of 2298 in his
I l-year career ln
has live
years,
Rossi
has amassed 1982
points.
Hore fun with statistics
-
that
prove
MotoGP is
getting more excitinS
year by
year
(as
if
you
hadn't noticed)
-
over fi\ie
years
of the
990 class, as the bikes have
become
rnore uler-friendly, the average
winnint marSin has shmnk
fairly steadily.
This
year.
it has been
1.58 r€.ondq
last
year
it was 1.88;
in 2004 2-24: and
3.45 and
3,21
for the two
previous years.
The notion of r.strictrd 990cc
machines
being allowed to
compete
with next year's
800s seems dead
in
the
water. after a fur-
ther meetihS of
the manufacturers' associa-
tion before
the Catalunfan GP Ducati
had
be€n
pushing
for this to
be allowed
for
salellile teams,
sutgestinS that
limtint revs
would
be a simple
(and easily adiustable)
way
of limiting
performance. bLn Honda
is
known to
be
qBainst
it. No official word
emerted from the meetin& but
sources
suSgested that
Du
