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The three 2010 World GP Champions talk about love and racing
Spain wiped up this year’s Grand Prix World Championships, dominating all three classes with Jorge Lorenzo taking the MotoGP title, Toni Elias the Moto2 one and Marc Marquez in 125cc and even the runner-ups were all of Spanish nationality, so the country is rightly celebrating their champions.
In a highly entertaining chat on the “El Larguero” show, the three world champions talked about their popularity, how difficult it is to cultivate love interests while motorcycle racing.
Jorge Lorenzo cheekily confessed, “Now I have a championship title, won more races, have more fans … and more money. I have nothing to hide. I live in Spain and pay my taxes here, “ but admitted that that he’s had only one real girlfriend, and that was when he was 16 years old.
Toni Elias also waxed sentimental: “It’s complicated. I’ve had three girlfriends, all for a very long time, very special, but it’s difficult to reconcile love with motorcycles.” While the youngest of the trio Marc Marquez, said “this season I haven’t had time to fall in love, but this winter …”
Jorge Lorenzo went all out during the show and turned singer, dueting with Dani Martin of the El Canto del Loco. If you decide you can’t miss hearing a MotoGP Champion (who doesn’t have the singing talent of James Toseland) butcher ‘Quiero aprender de ti’ (what I learned from you) just click here.
Toni Elias didn't get the silver yesterday
Yesterday two riders at Valencia looked like they jumped straight out of a window of Cartier. Jorge Lorenzo with his gold and Swarovski studded 12.000 euro helmet and Toni Elias stood out from the rest of the Moto2 field with his bright silvery leathers and matching bike livery.
Fabrizio Cecchini of the Gresini Moto2 team prepared this special livery as a tribute to the World title that Elias took in Moto2, and as a gesture of thanks to Elias on behalf of Fausto Gresini and Midori Moriwaki.
While Lorenzo took a stunning 9th win in MotoGP, Elias on the final lap went into the win it or bin it mode. Going from an almost podium, into the gravel trap to end up finishing 30th, not exactly how he planned to end his season before returning to MotoGP.
“I gave 200 per cent to win this race and maybe that was the problem! Over the course of the season I have ridden with caution and tried to avoid getting involved in hand to hand combat but with the title in the bag I went for the win at all costs,” said Elias. “Unfortunately I collided with Iannone and crashed but I went down fighting and trying something impossible so I’m still happy. It has been an amazing season and I wanted to give the team one last gift before I leave because they have done a great job.”
Toni Elias returns to MotoGP with LCR Honda
After spending a season in purgatory, because no MotoGP team would hire him, despite finishing 7th in last year’s standings, and then proving everyone wrong by winning the 2010 inaugural Moto2 Championship, Toni Elías will be returning to MotoGP in 2011 with Lucio Cecchinello’s LCR Honda team.
The deal which was widely rumored between LCR and Elías (with a little help by Dorna) was announced late this afternoon at Estoril. Elias will be replacing Randy de Puniet, who is expected to move to Pramac Ducati, with a big hand by Dorna, to help the Italian team to continue running a two rider squad.
“I’m very happy to be able to confirm I’ll be back in MotoGP with LCR and Lucio Cecchinello and am also delighted Lucio has given me this opportunity, I think together we can have very good results,” said Elías. “I’m very motivated. I think together we can have a very good season. I will start in Valencia after the last race and I am eager to get the job with the team underway as soon as possible!” Elias confirmed that Gresini has released him and that he will be allowed to test at Valencia immediately after the season finale.
Continue reading: Toni Elias returns to MotoGP with LCR Honda
De Puniet's manager denies talks so far with Pramac Ducati
Yesterday we posted the rumor that Randy de Puniet may have been headed to Pramac Ducati in 2011, however his manager Eric Mahe, has denied that he’s been in talks so far with the Italian team.
It seems that the French rider was ready to re-up with Checchinello and even had ELF ready to support the team in a bigger way, however after De Puniet’s leg injury and talks that Andrea Dovizioso could have been ended up either with Gresini or Cecchinello, negotiations died down.
Dorna wants to keep DePuniet in the series to have a French rider, but they also want Moto2 champion Toni Elias back in MotoGP and as Elias certainly prefers a Honda over a Ducati, he’ll end with Cecchinello while Dorna will have to help fund Pramac even more than they usually do with satellite teams, to run a second Ducati for the Frenchman.
“As of today, it’s almost 99% certain that Elias will ride for Cecchinello next year,” said Mahe. “With Suzuki we dropped everything at Malaysia, because the manufacturer doesn’t want to run two bikes in 2011. We’ll have to see for 2012. That leaves the Pramac option for Randy, however at this date we haven’t had any discussions, hopefully it will happen at Estoril next week.”
Source | sportbikes.fr
Photo of the Day: Two World Champions Celebrating
To celebrate their titles, here are the 2010 MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo and Moto2 World Champion Toni Elias giving a wild celebration party at the Luna Bar in Kuala Lumpur, where everyone ended up in the pool naturally singing “We are the Champions.”
Source | jorgelorenzoofficialfanpage
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Moto2 Sepang: Roberto Rolfo wins, Toni Elias takes Championship Title
An all Italian speaking podium saw Roberto Rolfo win his first race in Moto2 and Toni Elias nab the the first ever Moto2 championship title with a fourth place finish after title rival Julian Simon made two huge mistakes and definitely handing the title to Elias in Sepang.
Rolfo, who won his last race in 2004 was able to take the win for his S.T.R, Italtrans team (and not included in next year’s Moto2 entry list) after battling it out with Alex de Angelis who took the second spot on the podium after just four races with the JiR racing team.
Elias also battled it out for the third spot on the podium with Andrea Iannone finally prevailing, but the Spanish rider was already the world champion with seven race wins and a second place podium and giving Fausto Gresini his second title after Daijiro Kato’s 2001 title in 250cc.
Continue reading: Moto2 Sepang: Roberto Rolfo wins, Toni Elias takes Championship Title
Moto2 Misano: Elias edges out Redding for pole
Moto2 points leader Toni Elias was able to edge out Scott Redding from today’s pole position by just 0.044s at the Misano World Circuit. This is the Gresini rider’s second pole of the season after taking the first at the Qatar GP.
Elias has five wins including three in a row in the last three rounds so far this season, is still feeling the after effects of the energy sapping fever, will have his work cut out for him with Redding in spectacular form on the Suter Evo machine.
Julian Simon took third, but he was baulked by traffic and Jules Cluzel will take off from fourth. Opening the second row will be Andrea Iannone in fifth, despite mechanical troubles and a double fracture to his wrist bone picked up during the Indianapolis qualifying session. Jir’s Simone Corsi qualified in sixth ahead of new team mate Alex de Angelis. Shoya Tomizawa was eighth ahead of wildcard Mattia Pasini on the third Suter Italtrans S.T.R. Closing out the top ten was Gabor Talmacsi.
Continue reading: Moto2 Misano: Elias edges out Redding for pole
Video - Moto2 Indianapolis: Toni Elias wins in crash strewn race
Toni Elias grabbed a further hold on the Moto2 championship by winning his third straight race at Indianapolis. The Gresini Moriwaki rider despite suffering from a bad case of the flu was able to prevail again in a red flagged and shortened race.
The first start had to red flagged due to two separate multi pile-ups at Turn 2, with Lukas Pesek (who started the cannonball incident) Gabor Talmacsi, Simone Corsi and Michael Ranseder all going down and in the second, which included Yonny Hernandez, RogerLee Hayden, Shoya Tomizawa and Vladimir Ivanov. The race was shortened to 17 laps with Ranseder and Tomizawa unable to return to action in the restart, while Simone Corsi was pushed back to the last place on the grid for being late.
In the restart Elias got the hole shot while pole man Julian Simon dropped to fourth behind Anthony West and Scott Redding. Simon got past Redding on the third lap and then set his sights on West and got past him and then overtook Elias on lap four, while the back of the field was another crash fest. Ivanov took out Debon, Faubel binned his Suter while he was running in fifth with a trail of gas spilling out and catching fire on the asphalt. Bradl went down after tangling with Cluzel and the three front runners started distancing the rest of the group.
Continue reading: Video - Moto2 Indianapolis: Toni Elias wins in crash strewn race
Moto2 Brno: Toni Elias wins and lengthens championship lead
Toni Elias stretched his Moto2 Championship lead in today’s race by taking his fourth race win of the season at Brno.
The Spaniard emerged the winner after several riders battled it out for the lead at the beginning of the race until the field began to thin out with Andrea Iannone grabbing the lead on lap 6 and began to pull away, but Elias wasn’t having any and began to hunt down the Italian with Roberto Rolfo hot on his tail.
After several passing attempts Elias took the the lead on lap 14 from Iannone with Rolfo also passing Iannone. The battle wasn’t over, Rolfo then grabbed the lead from but went wide letting the Gresini rider through. One lap later Rolfo’s Suter MMX suffered an engine failure and had to pull out of the race leaving Iannone in second.
Continue reading: Moto2 Brno: Toni Elias wins and lengthens championship lead
Moto2 Brno: Shoya Tomizawa takes the Pole
Technomag-CIP’s Shoya Tomizawa took his second pole position of the season in today’s Moto2 qualifying session at Brno. The Japanese rider layed down a best lap of 2’03.452 admid traffic to leave Andrea Iannone who was looking for his fourth pole position in second and 0.232s behind.
Toni Elias who was banned from Friday’s free practice as punishment for a test session at Misano last Sunday, had been fastest in this morning’s practice will start the race on the third spot of the grid and completing the front row will be Roberto Rolfo riding an upgraded aerodynamic version of the Suter MMX.
On the second row of the grid will be Yuki Takahashi, Dominique Aegerter, Simone Corsi who was the final rider withing a second from Tomizawa. Arne Tode, Julián Simón and Scott Redding completed the top ten.
Thomas Luthi who is currently second in the championship 42 points behind Elias, will start in 13th.
Brno homeboy Karel Abraham, who will in MotoGP next season on a satellite Ducati crashed out this morning but also twice during the qualifying session and the second crash saw his bike fly over the tire barrier and will have to start in 34th. Others to crash during the session included Axel Pons, Yonni Hernandez and Raffaele de Rosa.
Moto2: Team Gresini Fined and Toni Elias barred from Friday FP
Not reading carefully the FIM rules and regulations has gotten Gresini Racing Moto2 team into trouble. Toni Elias and his team, who tested new elements on their Moriwaki machine for two hours last Sunday at the Misano circuit have been fined for violating the current 2010 testing rules.
The team will be fined 3000 euros and Toni Elias will not be able to take part in tomorrow’s free practice at Brno.
Source | gpone.com
Paul Denning confirms Suzuki in MotoGP in 2011
One of the biggest worries that is afflicting Dorna’s CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta is that Suzuki may decide to do what Kawasaki did at the end of 2008, and pull out of MotoGP before their contract is actually up in 2011.
Suzuki is one of the worst performing teams in the premier classand this not withstanding the amount of development that everyone keeps saying that has gone into the GSV-R and that the Rizla Suzuki team may get a waiver to use more engines for the rest of this season.
Many think that the team will fall back even further in 2011, when the 800cc will see out their last season before the new 1000cc rules goes into effect in 2012 and that further investments would be just throwing away more money, however according to team manager Paul Denning speaking to British Eurosport at the Brands Hatch BSB round yesterday said that he is “100%” sure Suzuki will remain in MotoGP for 2011, but could not offer further confirmation that the team would remain in MotoGP after that date.
Alvaro Bautista is under contract for next year, but Loris Capirossi, who lead the development of Japanese machine in these last two years is completely disappointed with the lack of results and is already deep in talks with Pramac Ducati for next season with former MotoGP rider Toni Elias, who currently leads the standings in Moto2 widely tipped for the vacant seat in Rizla Suzuki.
Source | racers-republic.com
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