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MotoGP Estoril Images - Part 2

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Today’s MotoGP race at Estoril, saw Jorge Lorenzo plant his flag on the Portughese soil, in total domination, while Casey Stoner took second, proving that his three race break did not harm his performance on the Ducati, putting in consistent lap times and going the entire race distance. Third went to Dani Pedrosa,couldn’t catch up with the two front runners.

The last of the Fantastic Four, Valentino Rossi was fourth and with his pace simply couldn’t contest with the top three podium finishers, losing from one to a massive two seconds in the second half of the race, finishing 23.4 seconds behind his super fast team mate.

If it wasn’t for some interesting battles in the middle of the grid and Mika Kallio crashing, Alex DeAngelis and Loris Capirossi pulling out due to unkown technical problems, we can safely say that this was one of the most boring races of the season.

The championship standings now sees Jorge Lorenzo just 18 points behind Rossi, with three races left in the season. The next GP race will be at Phillip Island, Australia the 18th of October.

With Lorenzo’s win today, Yamaha has wrapped up the MotoGP Teams Constructor Championship.

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It was Fiat Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo wearing a NASA themed helmet who rocketed to his 5th pole position of the season in today’s qualifying practice at Estoril.

Lorenzo hit the top of the charts with a 1’36.214, while team mate Valentino Rossi took second 0.260s from the Spaniard and third went to Casey Stoner, who is back as strong as ever, was a little more that three tenths of a second from Rocket Man Lorenzo and just 0.054s behind Rossi.

On the second row will start Dani Pedrosa 0.174sec from Stoner. Pedrosa is just seven points in front of Stoner in the championship. Next to Pedrosa on the grid will be Colin Edwards who has a reserved slot with 5th place. Randy DePuniet fully healed after his ankle injury, will start in 6th.

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After his Indy helmet, Jorge Lorenzo will be wearing another one-off helmet for this weekend’s MotoGP at Estoril. This time the Spanish rider has turned his Nolan X-Lite X-802 into an astronaut’s helmet to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing with Neil Armstrong’s famous phrase “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” on it.

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With Mattia Pasini testing the Ducati Desmosedici at the Mugello, rumors started up again that Casey Stoner would not be back for his programmed return for the Estoril GP in October and that Ducati was looking for another substitute, however in a telephone interview with Spanish RTVE, Livio Suppo talking in Italian, confirmed that Stoner will be back for the Estoril GP.

According to Suppo everything has been organized and flights have been booked and Ducati is eagerly waiting the return of the Australian rider, also stating that Ducati’s doctors have spoken to Stoner’s doctors in Australia and Stoner is feeling much better than when he arrived in Australia for the summer break.

Except for the Motosprint interview and brief article on Stoner doing some fishing at Top End, the Ducati rider has remained almost totally incomunicado to one and all during this 10 week absence. Suppo has had daily contacts only with Casey’s dad/manager Colin, Nicky Hayden received a text message before the Indy GP and new Triumph BE1 World SuperSport rider Chaz Davies, a former rival of Stoner’s in the 125 British Championship and close friend, last spoke to Stoner a week after Laguna Seca.

Suppo is convinced that his rider will be back stronger than ever and when the interviewer mentioned that his rivals were looking forward to his return, Suppo jokingly added: “Once he gets out on the track, they probably won’t be so happy to have Casey back!”

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