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Biaggi tangles with Sete, fights back to Rossi.
Max Biaggi ended a season of mixed fortunes with an impressive ride at Valencia on Sunday, the Roman Emperor slipping down the order from second after an increasingly tough fight with Sete Gibernau turned destructive - then battled his way up from fifth to within 0.4secs of race winner Valentino
Mistake with results - Aoyama is disqualified
Chaz has finished in 5th place - his best ever position in his 250cc career. Due to Aoyama being disqualified for having a bike that was too light, Chaz's final position in Valenica today is now 5th.
Warm-up times - Valencia.
Full MotoGP warm-up times for the Valencia Grand Prix at the Ricardo Tormo circuit, round 16 of 16.
Tamada takes final pole of 2004.
Double race winner Makoto Tamada has taken the final pole position of the 2004 MotoGP season after leading a Camel Honda one-two in today's tightly contested second qualifying session for the Valencia Grand Prix.
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Pedrosa, Dovizioso to test RCV.
It has been revealed that Honda's 250 and 125cc world champions, Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso, will test the company's RC211V MotoGP machine at Valencia on Monday.
Nakano versus Melandri, Xaus.
Fuchs Kawasaki rider Shinya Nakano comes to the Valencia Grand Prix aiming to overhaul rivals Marco Melandri and Ruben Xaus - to secure a top ten place in the final 2004 MotoGP World Championship standings.
BMW announce K1200R championship.
BMW has announced that a new one make championship, using the company's brand new K1200R 'power roadster', will act as a replacement for the popular Boxer Cup series at selected MotoGP events from next season.
Jacque back for Valencia.
Olivier Jacque will return to the MotoGP paddock, with Moriwaki, for the 16th and final round of the 2004 MotoGP world championship season, at Valencia on October 31.
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Rossi: 'Big bang' then 'big three' were decisive.
Newly crowned 2004 world champion Valentino Rossi has highlighted Yamaha's introduction of a 'big bang' engine, plus his three-race win streak from Mugello to Assen, as the most significant moments in his title winning season - and credited Sete Gibernau as perhaps his greatest on track rival.
2005 MotoGP calendar confirmed.
The FIM has confirmed that the 17 round 2005 MotoGP World Championship season will feature two news events - in China and America - but will not return to South Africa.
Rising star Pedrosa takes 250 crown.
Spanish motorcycle racing star Dani Pedrosa raced to a fourth place at the Australian Grand Prix, held at Phillip Island Sunday to claim the 250cc World Championship. At the age of nineteen years, and 18 days old Pedrosa is the youngest ever 250cc World Champion.
What Rossi can't win without...
Despite winning the world championship on a machine which only took just one podium finish the previous season, Valentino Rossi has confessed that there's one area of performance which not even he can compensate for...
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Chaz makes Aprilia Germany proud.
Chaz Davies gives team Aprilia Germany a day to remember as he achieves his 250cc career best by coming finishing well in the top ten in a fantastic and well overdue sixth place. Team Boss Dieter Stappart tells us the story from the Team Aprilias Germany box.
Ellison gets 2005 Blata V6 ride.
WCM have confirmed that 24-year-old James Ellison will ride their brand new Blata V6 machine in the 2005 MotoGP world championship.
Gibernau steals Phillip Island pole.
Valentino Rossi may be on the verge of his sixth world title, but the only man that can now stop him, Sete Gibernau, has stolen the Italian's thunder by taking pole position for tomorrow's Australian Grand Prix.
Checa: I still don't understand.
Fortuna Yamaha's Carlos Checa suffered a mysterious high-speed fall in the closing stages of today's final qualifying session at Phillip Island, which contributed to him being left 13th on tomorrow's grid.
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Aoki crashes, Haydon frustrated.
Proton Team KR riders Nobuatsu Aoki and James Haydon were placed 21st and 22nd on the provisional grid for Sunday's Australian GP, on a day when the 4.448km circuit on the Bass Strait south-east of Melbourne lived up to its reputation of highly variable and somewhat extreme weather.
Bayliss confirms Ducati split.
Speaking at the pre-event press conference for Sunday's Australian Grand Prix, Troy Bayliss has ended growing speculation over his future by officially confirming that he and the Ducati Marlboro Team will part company at the end of this season.
Pressure on as Edwards heads 'home'.
After a podium at Qatar and then a difficult weekend in Malaysia, Colin Edwards is eager to return to the front in this weekend's Australian Grand Prix - a 'home race' at a track the Texan knows well.
Australian GP wild-cards.
The ten wild-card riders who will race in the Australian Grand Prix, at Phillip Island, this weekend, are the following:
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'Battle not over' but Rossi on the brink.
After a season full of races labelled 'significant' or a 'turning point', Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix looks to have been the real thing: Valentino Rossi's victory, combined with seventh for Sete Gibernau, means that the Italian now has one hand on Yamaha's first world championship since 1992.
Dovizioso: The making of a champion.
Italian Andrea Dovizioso raced to his first 125cc World Championship title at the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang on Sunday, with two rounds of the championship left to be run.
Picture: Rossi 'sweeps' Sepang!
Shortly after taking victory in Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix, Valentino Rossi stopped on his slow down lap to perform the latest of his extraordinary post race celebrations.
Barros to break win drought?
Alex Barros will start tomorrow's Malaysian Grand Prix alongside pole sitter Valentino Rossi, as top Honda rider, giving the Brazilian veteran a good chance to break his two-year win drought.
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