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MotoGP points standings.
CLICK HERE for the 2009 MotoGP World Championship standings after round 16 of 17, Sunday's Malaysia Grand Prix at Sepang.
Rossi: The records.
Valentino Rossi won his seventh MotoGP title on Sunday, marking his ninth world championship victory in all three grand prix classes.
Rossi on pole at Sepang.
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.
125: Marquez on pole at Sepang.
Marc Marquez has put the outgoing factory KTM team on pole position for the penultimate round of the 125cc World Championship, at Sepang in Malaysia.
Friday sixth for Capirossi and Suzuki.
After a terrible weekend at Phillip Island, Rizla Suzuki got the Malaysian Grand Prix off to an encouraging start with the sixth fastest Friday practice time for Loris Capirossi at Sepang.
250: Aoyama leads practice at Sepang.
250cc World Championship leader Hiroshi Aoyama got his Malaysian Grand Prix weekend off to a perfect start by setting the fastest lap time in Friday practice at Sepang, while title rival Marco Simoncelli managed just tenth.
Preview - Malaysian Grand Prix.
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.
Rossi can win the title at Sepang
"Phillip Island was like gold dust and now we go to Malaysia with our first match point" - Valentino Rossi.
PIC: First lap crash in Australia
These pictures show Jorge Lorenzo tangling with Nicky Hayden on the approach to turn one in Australia on Sunday, then suffering a high-speed accident which left his MotoGP title hopes all but over.
Toseland angry at ride through
James Toseland had to bite his tongue after being given his second jump start penalty of the 2009 MotoGP season at Phillip Island on Sunday.
Hayden suffers third take-out in 2009.
Nicky Hayden was hit by another rider on the first lap of a grand prix for the third time in 2009, at the start of Sunday's Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island.
Lorenzo down and out at turn one.
Jorge Lorenzo's 2009 MotoGP World Championship hopes look to be all but over after the Spaniard crashed out at the very first turn of the Australian Grand Prix.
Capirossi demoted by engine change
Loris Capirossi to start Australian Grand Prix from the back of the grid
Stoner's special Phillip Island livery.
This is the special livery with which home hero Casey Stoner will attempt to claim his third Australian Grand Prix win in a row at Phillip Island. The new colours, which include an Australian flag, replace the usual red on the 2007 world champion's factory Ducati and race leathers.
Rossi's stepfather dies in Italy.
The stepfather of reigning six time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi is reported to have committed suicide.
250: de Rosa on pole at Phillip Island
Raffaele de Rosa claimed an unexpected first 250cc pole on his last lap of qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island.
Rossi's record with special livery.
Valentino Rossi's latest ride in a special livery ended with a fourth place finish in Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril.
KTM withdraws from 125GP.
KTM has announced that it will not field a factory team in next year's 125cc World Championship.
Hayate exceed 2008 Kawaski total.
Marco Melandri's four points for finishing twelfth in Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix were enough to exceed the Constructors' points total scored by the factory Kawasaki team during the whole of the 2008 season.
Lorenzo: Working with dad helped me improve.
Jorge Lorenzo believes one of the reasons why he dominated the Portuguese Grand Prix weekend was that he spent the four-week break before Estoril training at home with his father in Mallorca.
Kallio crashes out at Estoril
Mika Kallio was holding a potential MotoGP best of sixth in the early stages of Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix, before losing the front of his Pramac Ducati through the long final turn on lap six of 28.
Lorenzo celebrates Estoril victory
Dressed as an astronaut, Jorge Lorenzo made 'one giant leap' into Valentino Rossi's MotoGP World Championship lead with victory at Estoril on Sunday.
Spies to wild-card at Valencia
Ben Spies will get an early chance to experience Yamaha MotoGP machinery after being granted a wild-card ride for the season-ending Valencia round.