Casey Stoner managed to retain its dominance since the free practice I with a champion. Dani Pedrosa crashes. While Valentino Rossi won his first podium this season. Le Mans is full of stories.

In the race at Le Mans Circuit on Sunday (05/15/2011) night local time, Stoner initially failed to maintain pole position he achieved in the qualifying session. Leading position falls into the hands of teammate, Pedrosa.

But, Stoner continues to print the fastest laps until finally managed to overtake the Spaniard's. Stories for Stoner as finished up here because the fact he was not touched until the end of another racer.

Stoner managed to maintain a distance with Pedrosa, at least up to about 0.6 seconds. As for Pedrosa, he would get sad fate.

When the middle of a fight with Marco Simoncelli, he slipped to his right shoulder hit the track first. Pedrosa was unable to continue the race and he walked, holding his shoulder. From the news at the end of the race, Pedrosa back injury, this time in his right shoulder that.

Pedrosa fall incident that also resulted in Simoncelli. He is considered guilty and must eventually serving drive-through penalty. Simoncelli degenerate position and a blessing for Rossi.

The Doctor spur his bike to get past Jorge Lorenzo and finally sat down at number three. Shortly thereafter, Lorenzo lost position after overtaken by Andrea Dovizioso. Stoner, Rossi and Dovizioso into three leading drivers with terlemparnya Simoncelli.

There was a duel between Rossi and Dovizioso. Like the race in Portugal, Dovizioso back successfully winning a duel with Rossi. He claims to finish in second position and be a Honda put two drivers end the race in two leading position.

However, despite only finishing in third position, Rossi used to be complacent because this is the first time he got a podium this season.

Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa, must accept the bitter truth when it appeared in the French Grand Prix on Sunday (05/15/2011). Due touched with Gresini Honda rider, Marco Simoncelli, Pedrosa had an accident and the injury was diagnosed a broken right collarbone.

Two Honda rider was fighting tight to compete for second place in the Le Mans circuit. When will swing to the left, Simoncelli who menggeber bike is very fast to get past Pedrosa to take from the outside because he was late braking. Sure enough, Simoncelli managed to overtake. However, bad luck would befall Pedrosa for front tire rear tire brushed Simoncelli resulting in accidents.

Simoncelli survived the incident because he kept going faster and occupies the second position. But, unlucky for the Spanish rider Pedrosa as being in the post-injury recovery plate-making operation on his shoulder and bounced off a broken collarbone suffered.

From the investigation result Simoncelli guilty of illegal maneuvers so penalized. Although ultimately failed on the podium, Simoncelli can take home quite a lot of points for being able to finish in fifth.

With this reality, Pedrosa became very fragile condition. The reason, his left collarbone is also problematic due to an accident during practice at Motegi last year. That is, if it could appear on the next series, including the fifth series in Catalunya on June 5, Pedrosa should be more careful again so that no accidents occur that could exacerbate a physical condition.

Valentino Rossi absurdly pleased with the results of the French Grand Prix on Sunday (05/15/2011). The wait has been finally realized, where for the first time in his career he could be on the podium with Ducati.

Indeed, "The Doctor" worth celebrating small successes because he and the Ducati is not a favorite in the 2011 season. This is because the performance of the Desmosedici GP11 far short of expectations because of competition with its rivals from Honda and Yamaha teams. Moreover, his physical condition did not support the postoperative shoulder in November last year.

However, in the race for 28 laps at Le Mans Circuit, France, Rossi showed the appearance of a very impressive and fantastic. Start from a sequence of nine, seven times MotoGP world champion was slowly pushed forward and had been in second place before being beaten by the Repsol Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso, on the last few laps. Rossi is also the second defeat of Dovizioso after the GP of Portugal earlier this month he was defeated before the finish line in the race for fourth spot.

"I'm very happy, first podium with Ducati cause tremendous emotional, especially since I went there after experiencing a difficult period when we had many struggles to overcome my physical condition and also be able to better understand the motor," said 33-year-old rider .

"However, this is getting better and race on this day very enjoyable. I did a pretty good start, a few times to overtake the opponent, and I am involved in the fight with Dovi and (Jorge) Lorenzo. We have a different setting and I am faster than them at rest this weekend. "

"At the end of fun because I did a few laps with a good to fight with Jorge and I can pass it. Then, when Dovi came, there was another fight again."

"We are on a good path, but in some places we are still a lot to lose. When I tried to overtake Dovi, I thought it was the last lap, but it turns out there's still one more time, I'm not sure. However, it is difficult and congratulations for Dovi. "

Despite failing to become number two, Rossi was still happy. In fact, on the podium, the former Honda and Yamaha rider was celebrated the same as someone who just became the winner.

"Third place is certainly not like a winner, but similar," he said.

French Grand Prix will of note changed from a means of Valentino Rossi's comeback to Compete in the front row. After the first two free practice sessions, The Doctor did not deny That the Ducati is still lagging far behind.

There are up to one second time difference, Between the fastest Honda rider Rossi with the two free practice sessions held on Friday (13/05/2011) yesterday. That note so bad indication if the Italian manufacturer will from not be Able to Compete with the fastest bikes on the track.

Rossi even have to change the motor settings on the session to get better speed.

"Obviously these results are not positive for us. Firstly Because We needed the extra five minutes of exercise due to changes in the rear shock Gives me a better feeling but I Could only eat two laps. So maybe if there is an additional one or two more laps I Could improv record time and my position, "Rossi said in Autosport.

"However, We are still far behind Because We Are still struggling associated acceleration. Motornya moving much too nervous and I think We made ​​a mistake with the back. We are still Also Able to repair electronic systems. So We have to fix the problem Because I lost a lot of time, "beber uterus.

Related Rivalry on the track, Rossi did not deny That Honda is now in a position to lead. Speed ​​Honda calls even Better Than the motorcycle world champion, Yamaha.

"Differences impressive acceleration. Also Honda is Also a bike with a good set-up. Motornya stable, the same as the Yamaha, but with 20 more horsepower," said Rossi

Estoril - Duo Yamaha, Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies, ending with a different race at Estoril. Lorenzo satisfied with finishing in second position while the spies who had retired for the second consecutive time admitted frustration.

Lorenzo had actually led the race at Estoril on Sunday (01/05/2011) evening hrs. Damn him, Lorenzo was unable to inhibit the rate of Dani Pedrosa of Honda, who then came out a winner.

"The second position is good enough, we have the numbers quite a lot of three races, so I think we were in a good position to continue to fight in this championship," the official website of the Lorenzo MotoGP.

With these results still topped the standings Lorenzo MotoGP rider with 65 points, four ahead of Pedrosa in second position.

If Lorenzo looks satisfied with the results of races in MotoGP Portugal, the opposite is perceived Spies. He was having problems with a tool used to inhibit the flow of fuel in the pipe, which means it should have been removed before the race begins.

"When I found a tool that has not been released, I tried to remove himself because it is situated right next to the lever / handle-brake bike,"explained Spies.

The effort was then actually gave birth to another problem because then there are other parts of the bike loose and disperse the concentration of Spies.

"It really ruin my concentration because I was worried about making the other drivers to be out in one corner. Then I crash," Spies regret.

Thus, for two consecutive series Spies failed to cross the finish line, as happened in Jerez. "I'm very disappointed with today. After that occur at Jerez, this is really frustrating because it happened outside my control," he said.

Estoril - Andrea Dovizioso was pleased to have engaged battle with Valentino Rossi. Moreover, it succeeds compatriot he beat at the last moment.

Dovizioso successfully matched his best achievement to finish fourth this season in MotoGP Portugal on Sunday (05/01/2011) night local time, after the series premiered in Losail incised similar achievements.

Success Dovizioso finished fourth this time can not be separated from his success bloat Rossi just before the finish line. Earlier, the Italian racer who defended Honda was constantly stalking Rossi is riding a Ducati.

"Fight with Valentino always fun and always be more important, rather than doing it with the other drivers," he admitted as preached by Reuters.

"my strategy on the last lap was perfect,"said Dovizioso.

Due to maneuver at the last moment, the record time of Dovizioso was very slim odds of Rossi. Both are separated by 0.025 seconds.

Valentino Rossi disappointed with the achievements in Portugal MotoGP qualifying session. He complained about his performance Ducati motorcycles are not as expected.

In the qualifying session at Estoril Circuit on Saturday (04/30/2011) night local time, Rossi failed to perform optimally. He could not repeat their performance at practice a fairly free and will only start from ninth position.

"We are very angry with the performance this afternoon and in particular about the position, because our target is to fight for the second line, around the fifth or sixth place, and we have the potential yesterday," Rossi said, as quoted by Autosport.

"But today I could not drive a motorcycle with a better way. I have a problem with the front and when I tried to push over again, I'm too much on the boundary with the front of the motor. So, more or less the same problem and unfortunately, I could not make it better. So, tomorrow will be a difficult race, starting from the third line, "explained the Italian racer.

Rossi admitted that he had made ​​progress on the final qualifying session. However, in order to appear competitive in the race, she hopes Ducati could make some breakthroughs.

"At the end we made ​​a modification of the motor setting and I feel better, but that was not enough. We must make a move like that again to try to achieve good results," finished the Doctor.