ani Pedrosa took his second win of the season in the final race of the year with a win at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit, as Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo completed the podium. It was a victory on home soil for Dani Pedrosa at the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana, as the Repsol Honda man enjoyed a start-to-finish win. The drama started before the race had even commenced, as pole sitter Casey Stoner’s high-side crash on the warm-up lap meant he was unable to take his place on …

hings were settled at the Sepang International circuit as Valentino Rossi finished third behind Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa to take the 2009 MotoGP World Championship title. Casey Stoner was the race winner at the rain-soaked Shell Advance Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix on Sunday, but it was Valentino Rossi whose achievement of third place laid the foundation for the story of the weekend. This was Stoner’s second successive win, after an impressive performance by the Australian as he won by an astounding 14.666s margin. This was Rossi’s ninth world title …

asey Stoner won for the third successive year at Phillip Island, with championship leader Valentino Rossi finishing second as Jorge Lorenzo crashed out on turn one at the Iveco Australian Grand Prix. At the finish line, Stoner led Rossi by a slender margin of 1.935s. Stoner in his second Grand Prix back after a three-race absence, celebrated his 24th birthday weekend with an impressive win from pole position, his third race victory of the season, which took him to third in the championship standings. A frustrating weekend for Jorge Lorenzo …

great win for Jorge Lorenzo at the bwin.com Grande Premio de Portugal saw him reduce the gap to Valentino Rossi in the standings to 18 points. He repeated his 2008 Estoril victory from pole on race day to significantly boost his title chances as Valentino Rossi could only manage fourth place at the challenging Portuguese circuit. The Fiat Yamaha pair got away in first and second places on the grid but Rossi was unable to match the pace of Lorenzo as he pulled away quickly at the front. On …

t took Valentino Rossi just one week to bounce back from his Indianapolis disappointment with a brilliant win at Misano on Sunday. The victory delighted his home fanswho had flocked to this Italian venue and also reasserted his authority over the 2009 title race. Title rival and team-mate Jorge Lorenzo was 2.4s behind him in finishing 2nd. Rossi thus leads by 30 points in the standings, with four rounds to go. The way the championship is placed, neither rider can afford to be finishing behind the other. Lorenzo did his …