2007 MotoGP of Turkey - Istanbul(Stoner wins) Your thoughts?
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:35 am
The last six MotoGP races have seen six different winners and this weekend's Turkish Grand Prix could well produce a seventh, as Istanbul Park hosts the most unpredictable event yet of the new 800cc era....
Championship leader Valentino Rossi bookends that win list, with his victory in the 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix being followed by wins for Marco Melandri, Loris Capirossi, Toni Elias and Troy Bayliss. Casey Stoner then triumphed in the opening round of 2007, before Rossi returned to the top last time out at Jerez - and the Italian now leads the championship by nine points from young guns Stoner and Dani Pedrosa....
The best chance of a seventh different winner rests with Pedrosa, who finished second to Stoner by less than one hundredth of a second in the 250cc race two years ago and last year crashed out of third place on the last lap of the MotoGP race... which he'd started from 16th on the grid.
Last year Australian Chris Vermeulen took pole position in the rain at Istanbul Park on just his third MotoGP appearance on the Rizla Suzuki. He returns hoping for a repeat, after two poor qualifying sessions, while team-mate John Hopkins has made a blistering start to the season despite riding with an injured hand....
Championship leader Valentino Rossi bookends that win list, with his victory in the 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix being followed by wins for Marco Melandri, Loris Capirossi, Toni Elias and Troy Bayliss. Casey Stoner then triumphed in the opening round of 2007, before Rossi returned to the top last time out at Jerez - and the Italian now leads the championship by nine points from young guns Stoner and Dani Pedrosa....
The best chance of a seventh different winner rests with Pedrosa, who finished second to Stoner by less than one hundredth of a second in the 250cc race two years ago and last year crashed out of third place on the last lap of the MotoGP race... which he'd started from 16th on the grid.
Last year Australian Chris Vermeulen took pole position in the rain at Istanbul Park on just his third MotoGP appearance on the Rizla Suzuki. He returns hoping for a repeat, after two poor qualifying sessions, while team-mate John Hopkins has made a blistering start to the season despite riding with an injured hand....
