A record season for Fiat Yamaha comes to an end this weekend at the Valencia Grand Prix brings the curtain down on the 2008 MotoGP World Championship. The traditional season-end party believes that Spanish Valentino Rossi arrives with the title already in his pocket and the time for all points of record for a season within his sights, while Jorge Lorenzo will become the most high position in rookie four-stroke MotoGP history by scoring only four points. In a season that has become MotoGP World Champion Rossi for the sixth time, breaking the record for victories in the class and note its 150th Grand Prix podium on the road, which now needs only eleven points to break the record for the most senior match in a season. He is currently on 357 points, ie fifth place or above would take him above the reference in the whole of 2005, which was matched by Casey Stoner last year.
Lorenzo is currently fourth in the championship and third, while now it is a mathematically
impossibility, Andrea Dovizioso would have to win the race and I hope that Spanish does not finish higher than twelfth evict him. Dovizioso is also the only rider with any chance of denying Lorenzo the title of Rookie of the Year. It's a scene familiar to the old rivals, who entered the final round of the 2006 season in Valencia the fight for the title of 250cc, Lorenzo, who won the fourth place as the Italian finished seventh.
The 21-year-old from Mallorca has never won at the Ricardo Tormo circuit, although it seeks to establish clear that this weekend in front of 130,000 days of the race fans who packed the stadium unique style of the surroundings track. The design features a never-ending burst of tight corners, connected by pure short. The loop tobe long penultimate left and the speedy entry to turn a violent contrast with the otherwise geometric flip-flop chicanes and slow speed corners of the infield.
Valentino Rossi - "One has to resolve"
"I've had two bad years in Valencia and I would like to forget some memories with a good result here this year - I have an account to settle! In 2006 I crashed and lost the championship, and then last year I broke my hand and lost second place in the championship! This is not the best track for us, but I won there with Yamaha in my first year with them and I would do the same again this weekend. It's been a fantastic season and the victory Sunday in Malaysia was great, but I'm not finished yet and I want to reward my team, Yamaha and Bridgestone for a fantastic season with the best possible result on Sunday. Then we can all celebrate with a big party! "
Jorge Lorenzo - "In order to finish on a high"
"Sunday was really disappointing, but it does not hurt me and now we are waiting to Valencia. It is the third" home "race for me and now in the final in Barcelona, could not race, especially wishes to obtain a good result for all my fans. It will be a special race because it is the 10th anniversary of the Valencia circuit. Of course it's a little sad that I am no longer fighting for third place in the Championship, but can still be the Rookie of the Year and this is what I am aiming for. It's really important for me and my whole team. I do not have the best record in Valencia, I have never won the race there, although I was the second in 2005 but I have great memories of winning the 250cc world championship here in 2006. It will be our last race with Michelin, I won my first race of the first class, and most of what I want to get a good result for them, for my tire technician Pierre, Jean-Phillipe Weber, and of course for my team ".
Davide Brivio - "We want to win and part"
"Valencia is the last race of the season so go there with a dual objective - winning the race and party! It is nice to go to another race without any pressure and I think that all the Spanish fans will enjoy watching in the Valentino unbelievable the way he has shown recently. Of course it has been a tough few weeks on the road for the team with a lot of traveling, but honestly when you are winning part you do not feel the stress! Even so, it will be nice to be back in Europe and will focus on ending the season on a high. Whatever the outcome, we will be party on Sunday night! "
Daniele Romagnoli - "The motivation is high"
"We still have a career to go and another is a Spanish so it's really important for Jorge. Despite the bad result at Sepang we have high motivation and we really want to finish the season well. We will do our best to be back there on the podium and to finish the season in the manner in which George and the whole team deserves. Despite not getting the best results we've been in good shape for the last three race weekends and qualified on the front row five races in a row now, so we know we can do. This will be the last race with Michelin and so this is another reason to push. We want to give them a good outcome to thank them for their hard work they have done throughout the season. "
"I've had two bad years in Valencia and I would like to forget some memories with a good result here this year - I have an account to settle! In 2006 I crashed and lost the championship, and then last year I broke my hand and lost second place in the championship! This is not the best track for us, but I won there with Yamaha in my first year with them and I would do the same again this weekend. It's been a fantastic season and the victory Sunday in Malaysia was great, but I'm not finished yet and I want to reward my team, Yamaha and Bridgestone for a fantastic season with the best possible result on Sunday. Then we can all celebrate with a big party! "
Jorge Lorenzo - "In order to finish on a high"
"Sunday was really disappointing, but it does not hurt me and now we are waiting to Valencia. It is the third" home "race for me and now in the final in Barcelona, could not race, especially wishes to obtain a good result for all my fans. It will be a special race because it is the 10th anniversary of the Valencia circuit. Of course it's a little sad that I am no longer fighting for third place in the Championship, but can still be the Rookie of the Year and this is what I am aiming for. It's really important for me and my whole team. I do not have the best record in Valencia, I have never won the race there, although I was the second in 2005 but I have great memories of winning the 250cc world championship here in 2006. It will be our last race with Michelin, I won my first race of the first class, and most of what I want to get a good result for them, for my tire technician Pierre, Jean-Phillipe Weber, and of course for my team ".
Davide Brivio - "We want to win and part"
"Valencia is the last race of the season so go there with a dual objective - winning the race and party! It is nice to go to another race without any pressure and I think that all the Spanish fans will enjoy watching in the Valentino unbelievable the way he has shown recently. Of course it has been a tough few weeks on the road for the team with a lot of traveling, but honestly when you are winning part you do not feel the stress! Even so, it will be nice to be back in Europe and will focus on ending the season on a high. Whatever the outcome, we will be party on Sunday night! "
Daniele Romagnoli - "The motivation is high"
"We still have a career to go and another is a Spanish so it's really important for Jorge. Despite the bad result at Sepang we have high motivation and we really want to finish the season well. We will do our best to be back there on the podium and to finish the season in the manner in which George and the whole team deserves. Despite not getting the best results we've been in good shape for the last three race weekends and qualified on the front row five races in a row now, so we know we can do. This will be the last race with Michelin and so this is another reason to push. We want to give them a good outcome to thank them for their hard work they have done throughout the season. "
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