San Carlo Honda Gresini has officially kick-started its 2010 challenge for glory in MotoGP, by unveiling its all-Italian 'dream' team of Marco Melandri and Marco Simoncelli alongside the Honda RC212V
Gresini Honda MotoGP refugee Alex de Angelis finds a 'home from home' as he agrees a deal to compete for San Marino-based outfit Scot Racing alongside Niccol? Canepa in the all-new Moto2 Championship in 2010
Race results from the Valencia MotoGP, the 17th and final round of the 2009 world championship. Casey Stoner, winner of the last two races and fastest in all track sessions at Valencia, crashed out on the warm-up lap and did not take the race start.
Ahead of his first chance to wrap up the 2009 MotoGP title, Valentino Rossi pulverised the opposition during qualifying at Sepang - which ended with the Italian claiming a record-equalling 58th pole position in grand prix racing by 0.569sec.
Valentino Rossi looks set to claim his seventh MotoGP World Championship during this weekend Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, the penultimate round of the 2009 season.
Jorge Lorenzo may have survived contact during the second turn smash at Misano which eliminated Alex de Angelis, Colin Edwards and Nicky Hayden, but the 2009 MotoGP title contender was still 'very angry' at de Angelis for causing the accident.
Alex de Angelis experienced the wrath of Nicky Hayden and Colin Edwards after bringing the two Americans down in a clumsy turn two clash at his home San Marino Grand Prix on Sunday.
This is the first lap incident that took Alex de Angelis, Colin Edwards and Nicky Hayden out of Sunday's San Marino Grand Prix - and almost eliminated title contender Jorge Lorenzo.
A Crash.net feature in which Bridgestone's Tom Tremayne interviews a MotoGP rider at each of the remaining 2009 rounds. At Indianapolis, it's Alex de Angelis...
Having held ninth for the first 17 laps of Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix, Alex de Angelis suddenly saw his hopes of battling for a top eight finish put in serious jeopardy... by a butterfly!