With a Championship title on the line for Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi and Honda’s Nicky Hayden, the penultimate race of the 2006 season was a true classic. Dani Pedrosa took out teammate Hayden in dramatic fashion with Rossi leading the race, only for Kenny Roberts Jr and the satellite Honda of Toni Elias to catch Rossi and Colin Edwards to produce a stunning four-rider battle, in which Elias incredibly beat Rossi to the line by 0.002 seconds. Source link
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Assen: racing on Sunday, the legend remains
In 2016, the Dutch TT was held on Sunday for the first time. Before that, tradition held that the event took place on a Saturday…and so it was for the first 67 editions. So some things have changed as we gear up for the 2018 Motul TT Assen – but the legend, magic and myth of the Dutch GP remain the same. In 2018 there is something that harks back rather than forward, too, with the races held in July for the first time since 1955. Source link
Advantage Bezzecchi approaching Assen's final chicane
It was another dramatic Moto3™ race at Catalunya, but this time, only for some - and it was Jorge Martin (Del Conca Gresini Moto3) who lost out the most in the Championship, crashing as he did out of the lead and taking home another 0. At the front, meanwhile, Enea Bastianini (Leopard Racing) won for the first time since Motegi 2016 - and gained 25 points on the front. Source link
Assen Farewell’s Mr TT
Crutchlow fastest in rainy FP1 at Phillip Island
Home hero Jack Miller was spectacular through the final corner as his Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS machine moved him up into P4, with the Assen winner slotting in ahead of Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) as the new champion of the world got back on track. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team), Maverick Viñales (Team Suzuki Ecstar) and Pol Espargaro were sixth, seventh and eighth, with Alvaro Bautista (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini) ending the session in P9. Source link
Lowes: “After Assen I get my first go on the Aprilia!”
With Zarco just a further 2 points behind you in the standings, do you now see it as a three-way battle for the title now?“I have always said my title rivals would be Rins and Zarco. When Zarco had one or two bad races, everyone was counting him out. He won the second race of the year, then people were writing him off after Jerez. I suppose that’s Moto2, but for me it’s always been myself, Zarco and Rins. Hopefully I can keep taking the fight to them. If you had said to me in Japan last year that after seven races I would be two points ahead of Zarco, I’d have bitten your hand