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MotoGP Phillip Island Preview - A Southern Romance
By David Emmett on 02/10/2008 23:47:57
After taking the title from Casey Stoner at Motegi, Valentino Rossi heads to Stoner's home circuit. It's a track where Rossi dominated, but Stoner will surely be out for revenge.
circuit almost impossible to master, yet there are a few riders who have come very close to perfection at the track. Of those riders, Valentino Rossi is, rather unsurprisingly, probably the best. The Doctor won 5 straight races in a row here, from 2001
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MotoGP Motegi Race Report - The Top Step
By David Emmett on 30/09/2008 21:06:56
MotoGP went to Japan, where Valentino Rossi had his first chance of securing the 2008 title. But Casey Stoner wasn't about to give up his crown without a fight.
cherished, but the price of failure rises to match the price of success.Valentino Rossi knows all about the price of failure. The last time he was in a position to win a title, at Valencia in 2006, it all went horribly wrong for him. With an 8 point lead
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MotoGP Misano Race Report - Fairy Tale
By David Emmett on 01/09/2008 23:33:31
After Casey Stoner's crash at Brno, would he be back, and ready to ruin Valentino Rossi's fairy tale of getting a record-equalling 68th win at the track just a stone's throw from Rossi's home?
tales, the character at the heart of the story was Valentino Rossi. Rossi's story, already embroidered so broadly across the rich tapestry of MotoGP, was poised to see more chapters added at Misano. For Misano was the very first track that the Italian
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MotoGP Misano Preview - History In The Making
By David Emmett on 29/08/2008 01:13:18
MotoGP hits Valentino Rossi's back yard, just as The Doctor can put his name in the record books. But there's a bright red Ducati parked squarely in his path. Can he push it aside for the third time running?
for a 32 years being equaled. If Valentino Rossi wins on Sunday, it will be his 68th win in motorcycle racing's premier class, equaling his fellow Italian Giacomo Agostini's record, set way back in 1976.Meeting such a milestone would, on its own, be a
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MotoGP Laguna Seca Race Report - Crunch Time
By David Emmett on 22/07/2008 01:45:59
The MotoGP race at Laguna Seca looked like turning into the Stoner Show all over again. How wrong we all were...
the crash that broke Wayne Rainey's spine. Without the pressure of Rainey chasing him every foot of the way, Kevin Schwantz started losing interest, and retired shortly afterwards.Like his hero Schwantz, Valentino Rossi is another rider who prefers
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MotoGP Catalunya Race Report - Signs And Symbols
By David Emmett on 11/06/2007 21:13:03
In Catalunya, MotoGP just redefined the meaning of tense.
the richness of reality down to a simple, lucid portrait of the underlying truth of what played out before us.Heart And HeadLast week's race at Mugello was a case in point. The Italian press had accused Valentino Rossi of not having his heart in MotoGP any more
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David Emmett: MotoGP Valencia Final - All In
By David Emmett on 29/10/2006 21:23:34
The MotoGP crown is settled in the end-of-season decider
, it does.Grid NervesAs the bikes sat the on the grid, waiting for the red lights to dim, Hayden's position did not look promising. Sat in 5th place on the second row, with a run of poor starts over the second half of the season and Valentino Rossi on record
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2007 MotoGP Qatar Race Report - Meet The New Boss
By David Emmett on 10/03/2007 21:34:03
First MotoGP race of the season at Qatar, and what a race!
Rossi setting laps well into the 1'56s on race tires. Then, when qualifying came, Valentino Rossi shattered Casey Stoner's pole record from 2006 by nearly 7/10ths of a second. The only question left was how much quicker would the laps be in the race. We
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MotoGP Brno Race Report - Turning Point
By David Emmett on 18/08/2008 17:19:17
Hopes were high after the MotoGP thriller at the Dry Lake in California. Would the Wet Woods in the Czech Republic live up to its predecessor?
, and seemed to gift the title to Valentino Rossi. The next race, the last of the season, Rossi returned the favor, succumbing to the pressure of a poor start and the accumulated woes of a troubled season.The 2006 season also shows that races in mid-season can
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David Emmett: Showdown - Valencia MotoGP Preview
By David Emmett on 25/10/2006 14:05:07
Hayden or Rossi? MotoGP's final race will settle the title.
, looked likely to be the first person to smash Valentino Rossi's seemingly permanent reign in MotoGP, likes the fact that most of the turns go left: it's something he got used to on the dirt tracks he grew up on. And the twisting circuit suits the Honda RC
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