Valentino Rossi wins Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang, Andrea Dovizioso will debut MotoGP podium.Valentino Rossi took his ninth victory of the 2008 MotoGP season - and 150th Grand Prix podium - after a cool, calculating the victory on Sunday at the Malaysian GP at Sepang a scorching heat.
The Italian, who wrapped up 2008 title two rounds earlier in Japan, dropped from second to third in the first round, pole sitter, while Dani Pedrosa attacked in the early lead.
Rossi put his Fiat Yamaha ahead of countryman Andrea Dovizioso to claim second by the start of round two, and soon was inhibited Pedrosa in the rear wheel. The torque is distributed along the back after the round, as it pulls away from Dovizioso, who had a queue of backup runners behind him.
Pedrosa is at his most dangerous when it is able to escape in the early laps, but by failing to do so, the Spanish hoped to certain victims of Rossi.
The only trouble is that their Rossi Fiat Yamaha could not match Pedrosa of Repsol Honda along the Strait, even in the wake, forcing the Italian to a plot of braking movement.
That finally came in the middle of the 21 laps, and saw the eight time world champion, trawler inside of your foot on the asphalt as he dived successfully within Pedrosa on a hairpin left.
The Italian was then the biggest threat of inclement weather, with six laps to go was waved white flags, which indicates that the exchange of the bicycle is allowed now due to the threat of rain. That did not materialize and Rossi cruise to a comfortable four-second victory over Pedrosa.
On the contrary, the battle for the final podium position went well at the line.
Dovizioso, who had finished fourth on three occasions during his rookie season before Sepang, mounted an admirable defense against Nicky Hayden - Repsol, the Italian whose headquarters will be next year - for nearly the entire race, with five other riders also in the contest by half point.
That way fight was reduced from seven to six when Jorge Lorenzo, who has a bad start on the front, he lost the front of his M1-Michelin Shodo factory and fell from the sixth position through a turn.
With four laps to go, Hayden has finally ahead of Dovizioso - diving into America in the first round, with Dovi retaliate immediately, only gently pressed to the edge of the track Hayden.
Dovizioso, but was not completed and pulled his team within IRB Scot machine Hayden in the next hard braking zone. A small error Dovizioso Hayden then allowed a little breathing room, and putting Hayden briefly in danger of attack from Gresini of Shinya Nakano, but 2006 was the world champion again in the # 4 of the rear wheel by the start of the final lap.
Dovizioso, under braking impressive whole career, which was held tight lines for the final round and was rewarded with his first MotoGP podium - and the first podium this season to a satellite Honda Pilot - by 0.3sec from Hayden.
Nakano has overtaken Casey Stoner, with six laps to go to the Ducati Marlboro star appeared to be suffering badly in 42 degree heat exhausting, but hung in the sixth with three seconds ahead of Loris Capirossi of Rizla Suzuki.
That means the sixth position Stoner has secured second place in the 2008 world championship classification, the Australian holding to 26 points ahead of Pedrosa in the game next weekend in the final season of Valencia.
Colin Edwards was the only Technique 3 Yamaha rider to reach the flag at Sepang, in the eighth, after rookie team-mate James Toseland fell early in the race. Behind Edwards, Chris Vermeulen was the second GSV-R home in the ninth, with Randy Puniet tenth of the LCR Honda.
Kawasaki riders John Hopkins and Anthony West finished eleventh and twelfth, ahead of Alice's Sylvain Guintoli and Gresini Alex de Angelis.
The second of Alice Ducati Toni Elias was forced to serve a sentence of Jump Start, but still finished ahead of the factory Ducati rider Marco Melandri to claim the final world championship point. Suzuki wild card Nobuatsu Aoki was 17 and a distant past.
Malaysian Grand Prix:
1. Rossi
2. Pedrosa
3. Dovizioso
4. Hayden
5. Nakano
6. Stoner
7. Capirossi
8. Edwards
9. Vermeulen
10. de Puniet
11. Hopkins
12. West
13. Guintoli
14. de Angelis
15. Elias
16. Melandri
17. Aoki
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