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Capirossi to Ducati - Barros gets RCV?
The biggest rumour from the Portuguese Grand Prix was that Loris Capirossi will join the new Marlboro Ducati MotoGP team next year - and as a result current West Honda Pons teammate Alex Barros will get the sole RCV ride for the final four races of the season.
Sheene defies illness to win at Goodwood.
Barry Sheene showed little sign of succumbing to the cancer he revealed had attacked his throat and stomach last month to win a thrilling Lennox Cup encounter at the annual Goodwood Revival meeting.
Top 2-stroke Barros congratulated by Barrichello.
In spite of the incessant rain and a water-covered track surface at Estoril yesterday, Alex Barros demonstrated his excellent riding skills in being the only two-stroke rider capable of staying with the pace of the four-strokes - and in a superb last lap he overtook Max Biaggi to claim fifth spot
Gamble goes wrong for McWilliams.
Proton Team KR rider Jeremy McWilliams overcame bad luck and appalling conditions at yesterday's rain-lashed Portuguese GP, remounting after falling early in the 28-lap race, and picking up positions to get back into the top ten, finishing ninth.
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Rossi: I'll wrap it up in Rio.
Valentino Rossi emerged victorious from a treacherous wet race at Estoril this afternoon, guiding his Honda RC211V through the wind and lashing rain to top the podium just as he had done at the first race of the season at Suzuka.
Sete suffers as Rossi sings in Estoril rain.
Long time race leader Sete Gibernau came agonisingly close to claiming his - and Suzuki's - first MotoGP victory today in atrocious conditions at Estoril.
Fonsi falls - then wins - wet 250cc GP.
Today's wet 250cc Portuguese Grand Prix was full of surprises as Fonsi Nieto took victory - despite having crashed on lap 13!
Checa claims first pole for four years.
Carlos Checa scored his first pole position since Jerez 1998 at Estoril today, outpacing the MotoGP competition aboard his Marlboro Yamaha Team M1 in the most difficult of conditions to take the teams third pole of the season.
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Sete fast in speed - slow in time!
Team Telefonica MoviStar Suzuki rider Sete Gibernau will start tomorrow's Portuguese GP from the third row of the grid, after setting the ninth fastest time in today's rain-hit final practice session.
'It's like a rally car' - unhappy Rossi loses grip
Behind both Barros and Kato came the series leader Valentino Rossi, who missed out on the points for the first time in 21 races in Brno, and who set his best time on his penultimate lap, with a run into the gravel at the end of the straight then preventing him from improving any further.
Kato: Time for victory.
MotoGP rookie Daijiro Kato made a stunning debut on Honda's all-conquering RCV V5, where the little Japanese rider was a brilliant second at the challenging Brno circuit.
Foggy, Corser & Haydon send Sheene support.
Carl Fogarty and the Foggy Petronas Racing team have expressed their best wishes to Barry Sheene and his family, following the news of the legendary twice 500cc World Champion's diagnosis of throat cancer.
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Biaggi battles, but war may be over.
Marlboro Yamaha star Max Biaggi comes to Estoril this weekend aiming to repeat his stunning Czech Grand Prix win of two weeks ago.
Sheene says 'no' to chemo.
Barry Sheene has confirmed that he has ruled out the use of chemotherapy in an attempt to cure the cancer with which he was diagnosed last month.
Suzuki tests positive at Brno.
Telefonica MoviStar Suzuki team riders Sete Gibernau and Kenny Roberts, and Team Suzuki development rider Akira Ryo, stayed on at the Brno circuit in the Czech Republic after last weekend's MotoGP event to test a number of new parts and settings on the new-this-year GSV-R machine.
Ryo's Euro tour points way forward for GSV-R.
Team' Suzuki's reigning All-Japan Superbike Champion Akira Ryo took 14th place aboard his GSV-R development machine in this, his final European MotoGP race of the season.
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Melandri takes win as Rolfo crashes out.
Marco Melandri takes the 250cc win today in the Czech Grand Prix at Brno. Melandri took his consecutive win and Dunlop's 100th consecutive win in the 250cc category.
Kato: It's been easier than I thought.
Although Max Biaggi broke his own pole position record by almost exactly 0.7 seconds today at Brno, he wasn't the only rider under the magical two minute mark. Daijiro Kato showed he needed no time to become competitive with the RC211V Honda he rides here for the first time.
Aoki scrapes elbows.
Nobuatsu Aoki's managed a massive three quarters of a second improvement in today's final qualifying session after chassis geometry revisions and a tyre gamble solved the front-end grip problems he was complaining of yesterday.
Hopkins: We're changing nothing.
McCoy's young gun teammate and good friend in the Red Bull Yamaha team, John "Hopper" Hopkins, was only 0.112 seconds behind the three times GP winner as the American clinched an excellent seventh placed start for tomorrow's Czech Grand Prix.
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Sete: The throttle stuck open... twice.
Sete Gibernau's best qualifying time came from yesterday when he was fourth fastest, and although he came within a few tenths of matching that time today he was left down in ninth as the rest of the field improved, while he was forced to stick with the old chassis instead of using the expected ne
Biaggi's Marlboro missile blasts to Brno pole!
Brno ace Max Biaggi finally broke Honda's stranglehold on the Czech Republic Grand Prix by snatching the top spot from the grasp of Daijiro Kato by just 0.094secs to claim the YZR-M1's second ever pole.
Surgery struck Hopkins pleased with progress.
Red Bull Yamaha's John Hopkins left hand now bears the scar from his recent surgery in the United States. The operation repaired his middle finger, metacarpal bone, that he fractured in the final qualifying session at German GP.
It's hard to get on the gas, complains Capirossi.
Loris Capirossi returned to the track after missing the last two races with a broken wrist. The tough Italian put in a typical gritty performance for the West Honda Pons team and was tenth fastest despite problems with his wrist, less than one second behind Rossi.
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