Jorge Lorenzo is not only edging ever closer to winning his first MotoGP title this season, but he’s also getting closer to being Spain’s most successful premier-class rider.
The Fiat Yamaha rider has now won 12 MotoGP races, which is just three less than Spain’s most successful premier-class competitor Alex Criville.
With eight races still to go in the 2010 season, Lorenzo has a shot at beating Valentino Rossi’s best of 11 wins in a single year and even Mick Doohan’s all-time record of 12 wins. Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Dani Pedrosa is determined to claim the win he missed out on last year as the MotoGP World Championship heads to America for Sunday’s Indianapolis Grand Prix.
The Spanish Repsol Honda rider, 77 points behind overall leader Jorge Lorenzo, fell while leading at the Brickyard 12 months ago. Mirror.co.uk
Casey Stoner is heading to Indianapolis with high hopes this weekend as he looks to make full use of the positive strides taken at the official test at Brno last week.
Having missed last year’s Indianapolis race due to illness and with a fourth-placed finish in the inaugural event in 2008, Stoner is also eager to push his 2010 campaign on in the 11th round as he continues to search for a first win of the season.
“I’m really looking forward to going back to Indy because it’s a circuit where we were in good shape in 2008 despite the crazy weather,” said Stoner of the rain-affected race two years ago. “Unfortunately I wasn’t able to race last year but hopefully this time around we can make the most of the work we did in the Brno test, even though we didn’t have much time.”
Stoner goes into the race having finished on the podium in the five previous rounds, and currently sits third in the Championship standings on 119 points. Motogp
1 Jorge LORENZO Yamaha 235 2 Dani PEDROSA Honda 158 3 Casey STONER Ducati 119 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Honda 115 5 Valentino ROSSI Yamaha 101 6 Nicky HAYDEN Ducati 99 7 Ben SPIES Yamaha 90 8 Randy DE PUNIET Honda 75 9 Marco MELANDRI Honda 61 10 Colin EDWARDS Yamaha 57 11 Marco SIMONCELLI Honda 54 12 Hector BARBERA Ducati 48 13 Loris CAPIROSSI Suzuki 36 14 Aleix ESPARGARO Ducati 32 15 Mika KALLIO Ducati 31 16 Alvaro BAUTISTA Suzuki 25 17 Hiroshi AOYAMA Honda 18 18 Alex DE ANGELIS Honda 11 19 Roger Lee HAYDEN Honda 5 20 Kousuke AKIYOSHI Honda 4 21 Wataru YOSHIKAWA Yamaha 1
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