Check out our great gallery of pics from the MotoGP Indy weekend that saw Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo win the race and close in again on Valentino Rossi who crashed out by putting his tires where he shouldn’t have.

Lorenzo is now just 25 points behind Rossi in the standings with G.P. Cinzano di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini race coming up in just 6 days and Valentino looking for some way to mend his costly error and show rivals who is the Alpha male in MotoGP and in the Yamaha team.

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Today’s qualifying session at Indianapolis saw Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa take the top spot with a smashing 1.39.730s on hard race tires and beating Valentino Rossi’s last year’s pole position on super soft qualifying tires by more than a second.

Jorge Lorenzo was able to grab the provisional pole before Pedrosa set out in a series of impressive runs, but closed his qualifying session 0.506s from the Honda rider.

Much worse went Valentino Rossi who seemed to have trouble with his Ohlins set-up, managed to get third on the grid in the dying seconds of qualifying, a massive 0.879s behind Pedrosa. Rossi’s late lap pushed Alex de Angelis to fourth by just 0.011s.

Colin Edwards crashed out with less that ten minutes to go, but was able to retain his fifth place 0.106sec from Ducati’s Nicky Hayden who will round out row two with his sixth place.

Continue reading: MotoGP Indy Qualifying - Dani Pedrosa Domination

Jorge Lorenzo will be sporting a special design on his NolanX-Lite X-802 helmet in this weekend’s MotoGP race at the Indianapolis Brickyard.

This one-off helmet is supposed to depict and pay homage to the comic book hero Captain America, and if someone sees the any resemblance to the super hero’s outfit in this helmet please let us know.

Source | motoblog

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Today’s MotoGP free practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was carried out under rain showers which saw Dani Pedrosa top the chart with a best time of 1.51.507, followed Ducati’s Nicky Hayden just 0.155s off of Pedrosa’s time. Pedrosa time was slower that 125cc rider Nico Terol who did 1.50.603 on a dry track.

Valentino Rossi sat out the first twenty minutes of session hoping the rain would let up, finally headed out on the rain soaken track and in the final minutes of the session took third at 0.307s from the Repsol Honda rider.

Newly re-signed Yamaha rider was Jorge Lorenzo was 4th and fifth went to Alex DeAngelis who still cannot find a MotoGP seat for next season and is now considering a Moto2 ride.

James Toseland set his best lap time early in the hour finished sixth and Loris Capirossi, another rider who announced yesterday that he’ll be with Suzuki in 2010 took seventh.

Continue reading: MotoGP Indianapolis FP1 – Dani Pedrosa on top in the wet

Nicky Hayden will be wearing a very special one-off Arai helmet, designed by Starline during the Indianapolis MotoGP race this weekend that will be auctioned off after the race to raise money to support the Make a Wish Foundation, a charity that he has supported for the last five years.

So if you’re going to be at Indy this weekend why not stick around after the race and make an offer, because being able to help a child fulfill his or her dream is the most generous act around.

Source | nickyhayden.com

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