What a ridiculous race...

[auslo]

Apologies if this has been posted before. Any motor head will appreciate this. If you have seen it before, again sorry, but I'm sure you won't mind watching it again.

[jduarte]

Sorry but the traffic from reddit brought too much attention.

[auslo]

Figures

[Peloton25]

It's also up on Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/32756097

Shhh... don't tell anyone.

>8^)
ER

[DEEJAY16]

Wow. What a finish.
Thanks for posting.

[zeewhiz]

That was brilliant! Thanks for posting.

[Mr Miyagi]

It's also up on Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/32756097

Shhh... don't tell anyone.

>8^)
ER

From a year ago, too

[Seki]

[dieselraver]

It's also up on Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/32756097

Shhh... don't tell anyone.

>8^)
ER

i have to say. I have the biggest sh*t-grin on my face for the last 7-8 minutes watching that video! INCREDIBLE!

[FlashRedGLS1.8T]

I remember how much I loved Doohan. Then there's Rossi.

[izzo]

Awesome!!!!!!!!

[compy222]

wow.

[Dave Zero]

Amazing. Truly amazing.

[remedyzrider]

That was a tremendous race. Now if only Rossi could do the same on the ducati!

[caj1]

Never give up

[karl_1052]

That was a tremendous race. Now if only Rossi could do the same on the ducati!

The Ducati will never be good, because the engineers will not listen to the riders(Melandri, Hayden and most importantly Rossi).
Rossi went to Yamaha in 04, and won the championship on a bike that had not won a race the year before. To not listen to him, is just plain dumb.
Stoner won the championship in 07, but after that, he only got 6 wins and 3 wins in the two subsequent years before leaving the team.
Between Rossi and Hayden they have 8 MotoGP championships(2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009).
Ducati has one.

http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...id-red-said/P1
http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/artic...id-red-said/P1

[FlashRedGLS1.8T]

To not listen to him, is just plain dumb.

[The Ninja]

To say that is one of; if not the greatest final laps in history is an understatement. Brilliant!

[deucestudios]

Worth watching again, will watch every time it's posted.

[Slayer]

That's gotta be the best bike race ever filmed

[MikkiJayne]

Amazing! Thanks for posting

[Lupo TDI]

He probably did not know that you can't pass in that corner, so he just did

what an amazing race, I saw it live and it wouldn't have mattered who would have won because it was so intense, so rare, so out of this world that as a MotoGP fan you had to like it. Let's not forget these 2 guys are teammates so they could have lost very important points for the Championship had they crashed. I'd like to compare these last laps to the Villeneuve-Arnoux duel in F1 at Dijon.

[02vwgolf]

Awesome video, definitely glad you posted never seen this before

[sforsancho]

Awesome race, I've seen the raw footage before but I enjoyed the post-race quotes in this one..

However, I'm a little unclear on MotoGP racing. Where is the rest of the field? Are they so far behind that they just don't appear in this race? Even in F1 on the final lap, the leaders are almost always contending with backmarkers (HRT, Caterham etc)

[FlashRedGLS1.8T]

However, I'm a little unclear on MotoGP racing. Where is the rest of the field? Are they so far behind that they just don't appear in this race?

Yes.

[Peloton25]

3rd place rider was over 8 seconds behind this pair - not unheard of in MotoGP.

1st ROSSI V. ITA 43'11.897

2nd LORENZO J. SPA +0.095

3rd STONER C. AUS +8.884

>8^)
ER

[1956dub]

Wow, never watched moto racing before, that was truly epic.

[Hawk]

That's a race!!!!!

[karl_1052]

Awesome race, I've seen the raw footage before but I enjoyed the post-race quotes in this one..

However, I'm a little unclear on MotoGP racing. Where is the rest of the field? Are they so far behind that they just don't appear in this race? Even in F1 on the final lap, the leaders are almost always contending with backmarkers (HRT, Caterham etc)

Tire and fuel management are huge factors in MotoGP.
Different riders will have different race strategies for each track.
For example, the season opener had Casey Stoner break away from the pack early on, only to get swallowed back up near the end of the race, making a great last 5 lap battle between 3 riders.

[initiation]

That was delightful.

[garef001]

every time I watch that i get a huge grin on face

[evosky]

goosebumps and heart pounding. and i don't even ride.