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Preview - Portuguese Grand Prix.

Wednesday, 12th September 2007

With five round of the MotoGP Championship still to run, twenty-one year-old Australian Casey Stoner could clinch the 2007 MotoGP World Championship crown at the bwin.com Grand Prix of Portugal at Estoril this coming Sunday.

His biggest threat on Sunday will come from Italian Andre Dovizioso, who suffered a similar fate to Rossi with a mechanical problem in front of his home crowd in Misano. He won the race for Honda last year and despite no points in Misano trails De Angelis in the championship by a single point with last year’s 125cc winner Alvaro Bautista in fourth place.

The sparks are expected to fly in the 23-lap 125cc race where Bancaja Aspar Aprilia team-mates Gabor Talmacsi and Hector Faubel are not exchanging pleasantries following a coming together in Misano. They tangled together with Italian Simone Corsi on the penultimate lap. Faubel and Corsi crashed, Talmacsi stayed on to finish second behind Mattia Pasini. Faubel who led the championship by ten points before the crash now trails ‘team-mate’ Talmacsi by a similar margin. Enough said, let battle commence.

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