made the left side of the tyre cold and that’s why I crashed. Luckily it was a slow fall and my bike wasn’t hurt much. In fact, my bike was ‘bravissima’ today, both before and after the crash! After that we made a great recovery, I chose to remain

can improve for Le Mans.”Valentino Rossi - Fiat Yamaha - 3rd"This just wasn't our race this year. We have struggled all weekend, first with my shoulder and then with the bike, and in the race today I couldn't do any more than third. I got a great start

at that time. We definitely needed a bit more time to get the tyres up to temperature and Dani just kept edging away, but then after a few laps I was coming down the main straight and I could see his bike bouncing around in the gravel at turn one. It's a shame

-up of the new chassis and today we made a big step forward with improving grip and feel with the new bike. Considering that I have recently had an operation and my wrist has still not full recovered, to be the fastest rider here is a dream to be honest. Now I

and then eventually decided to back it off and not take any risks. This is another fantastic day for us and I want to thank everybody in the team for their effort. We’ve struggled with the bike in the wet this season but everybody has worked so well and the difference

Here it is – MV Agusta's F4 RR. We've included all MV's spiel about the bike below but in case you can't be bothered to go through it the key facts are:201cv (that's 198bhp in English money) at 13,400rpm from a revamped engine with bigger bore

it was Shaun Simpson " Wulfsport Kawasaki who soon opened up a clear advantage, a position he held to the flag to give him his first ever victory at this level. Eventual overall winner Swanpoel followed Simpson home, with Martin Barr " Bike It Yamaha completing

and getting my championship back on track."Race One Results1) Gregorio Lavilla - Airwaves Ducati2) Leon Camier - Bike Animal Honda3) Jonathan Rea - HM Plant Honda4) Shane Byrne - Stobart Vent Axia5) Chris Walker - Rizla Suzuki6) Leon Haslam - Airwaves Ducati

thing is that I had fun again and got the feeling back with my bike. Now I'm happy to be racing again so soon. "I like Laguna Seca a lot -- I finished third there last year and the track is really nice, so technical. We'll have to see what the weather

of the track and the best lines. Today we've been quite fast from the start and our bike seems to be working well here. It seems that we have a good selection of tyres, we started with something quite soft and we'll need something a little bit harder