Video : Moto2 Australia 2011, Alex de Angelis wins, Marquez from last to 3rd

Marc Marquez did not win the Moto2 series Australia at Phillip Island some time ago. The Spaniard was only third place.

Race was won by Alex de Angelis was followed by Stefan Bradl in second place.

The extraordinary race for Marquez is starting from last position or grid 38. But with the talent, skill, mental strength and supported with a good motor, Marquez had skyrocketed to be able to finish third.

These results make the title race getting tighter. Marquez is now only 3 points left from Bradl in the first place.

See the video below...

Video : MotoGP Australia 2011, Stoner wins, Stoner World Champion 2011

Casey Stoner finally completed his dream to become a MotoGP world championship this season. Won the race in his own home, Stoner even embraced second championship title in his career.

Stoner was untouchable from start to finish and make himself a record fifth successive victory on this circuit since 2007.

Racing this time not followed by two Factory Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies who suffered an injury during warm-up lap.

As a result the race was dominated by Honda rider, who finished first through fourth. Fifth place was won by Ducati, Nicky Hayden.

The Doctor again achieved poor results after slipping on lap 12 shortly after the preceding Alvaro Bautista to be in fifth position.

Stoner became the world champion, which stood at 325 points in the riders standings and could not be overtaken again by Jorge Lorenzo (260 points) in two series remaining, Sepang and Valencia.

Results MotoGP Australia 2011
1. Casey Stoner AUS Repsol Honda 42m 2.425s
2. Marco Simoncelli ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini 42m 4.635s
3. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda 42m 4.879s
4. Dani Pedrosa ESP Repsol Honda 42m 15.585s
5. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 42m 33.311s
6. Randy de Puniet FRA Pramac Racing 42m 51.225s
7. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro 43m 18.739s
8. Toni Elias ESP LCR Honda 42m 5.177s
9. Loris Capirossi ITA Pramac Racing 42m 9.187s
10. Karel Abraham CZE Cardion AB Motoracing 42m 45.142s

DNF:
Alvaro Bautista ESP Rizla Suzuki
Hiroshi Aoyama JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini
Cal Crutchlow GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3
Valentino Rossi ITA Ducati Marlboro

DNS:
Damian Cudlin AUS Mapfre Aspar
Ben Spies USA Yamaha Factory Racing
Jorge Lorenzo ESP Yamaha Factory Racing

video courtesy of trans7

News : Qualifying MotoGP Phillip Island 2011, Stoner got pole position

Casey Stoner was absolutely unstoppable in grabbing pole position at the Phillip Island circuit. Repsol Honda rider was right to start the race on Sunday leading edge of the grid after he scored the fastest time in Qualifying Practice session Grand Prix of Australia.

But Stoner efforts to clinched his second world is likely to get resistance from Jorge Lorenzo will start from the second grid. In the qualifying session, the Yamaha Factory Racing rider was lost to 0.473 seconds of Stoner.

Last grid in the first row will be filled by San Carlo Honda Gresini rider Marco Simoncelli. While Alvaro Bautista will occupy the first grid in the second row. It at once became the best qualifying result of Rizla Suzuki MotoGP rider.

The top five positions filled by Andrea Doviziozo which was followed by two American rider, Nicky Hayden and Ben Spies.

Other Honda Repsol rider, Dani Pedrosa was only able to occupy 8th position of, in front of Colin Edwadrs and two Pramac Racing riders, Loris Capirossi and Randy de Puniet.

While Valentino Rossi, who since the session Free Practice 1 (FP1) was able to record the above position 10 eventually had to settle for starting the race from 13th on the grid to the back of Hiroshi Aoyama.

Here are the results of Qualifying Practice MotoGP 2011, Phillip Island - Australia.

1 Casey Stoner/Australia/HONDA/Repsol Honda/1’29.975
2 Jorge Lorenzo/Spanyol/YAMAHA/Yamaha Factory Racing/+0.473
3 Marco Simoncelli/Italia/HONDA/San Carlo Honda Gresini/+0.624
4 Alvaro Bautista/Spanyol/SUZUKI/Rizla Suzuki MotoGP/+0.739
5 Andrea Dovizioso/Italia/HONDA/Repsol Honda/+0.805
6 Nicky Hayden/USA/DUCATI/Ducati Team/+0.817
7 Ben Spies/USA/YAMAHA/Yamaha Factory Racing/+0.860
8 Dani Pedrosa/Spanyol/HONDA/Repsol Honda/+0.896
9 Colin Edwards/USA/YAMAHA/Monster Yamaha Tech 3/+1.262
10 Loris Capirossi/Italia/DUCATI/Pramac Racing/+1.608
11 Randy de Puniet/Prancis/DUCATI/Pramac Racing/+1.660
12 Hiroshi Aoyama/Jepang/HONDA/San Carlo Honda Gresini/+1.914
13 Valentino Rossi/Italia/DUCATI/Ducati Team/+2.005
14 Cal Crutchlow/GBR/YAMAHA/Monster Yamaha Tech 3/+2.048
15 Karel Abraham/Ceska/DUCATI/Cardion AB Motoracing/+2.079
16 Toni Elias/Spanyol/HONDA/Honda LCR MotoGP/+2.528
17 Damian Cudlin/Australia/DUCATI/Mapfre Aspar/+6.691

Aoyama Gantikan Pedrosa di Assen

ITGP– Seperti yang telah mGPm tulis kemarin, di seri ke-7 MotoGP 2011 yang akan berlangsung di sirkuit Assen, Belanda pada Sabtu ini (25/6/2011) paddock Dani Pedrosa tak lagi boleh dikosongkan. Situs resmi MotoGP telah mengabarkan bahwa di TT Assen, Pedrosa akan digantkan oleh Hirosi Aoyama.

Larangan team pabrikan menggunakan rider yang berstatus rookie memang membuat team kerepotan saat harus mencari rider pengganti. Jika menggunakan jasa rider di team satelit juga pasti menimbulkan efek buat team bersangkutan. Hal ini dialami pula oleh team Repsol Honda yang sebenarnya sudah berencana menunjuk Aoyama sebagai pengganti Pedrosa di seri Silverstone lalu, namun hal itu tidak terwujud karena team San Carlo Honda Gresini beralasan tidak mendapat rider pengganti untuk posisi yang ditinggalkan Aoyama.
Menjadi bagian sebuah team pabrikan dan mengendarai motor spek pabrikan tentu merupakan sesuatu yang sangat didambakan oleh Aoyama. Namun permasalahannya, satu-satunya pilihan rider pengganti hanyalah Kousuke Akiyoshi, test rider HRC. Performa Akiyoshi jelas tak bisa terlalu diharapkan untuk bisa menyumbang poin terhadap team.
Karena itulah team Repsol Honda memilih memanfaatkan celah regulasi semaksimal mungkin dengan tetap mengosongkan paddock Pedrosa selama dua seri berturut-turut. Dalam hitungan poin kelasemen team, tanpa Pedrosa pun Repsol Honda tetap akan menjadi yang teratas mengingat mereka masih punya dua jagoan lain, Casey Stoner dan Andrea Dovizioso. Tentunya sambil berharap Pedrosa bisa tampil di Assen.
Sayangnya harapan itu tak terwujud. Dani yang Kamis lalu menjalani operasi lanjutan untuk cedera tulang selanghgka kanan belum cukup sehat untuk kembali balapan. Rider Spanyo itu mencanangkan baru akan kembali pada seri ke-8 yang akan berlangsung di sirkuit Mugello.
“Sudah (lewat) beberapa hari sejak operasi dan saya merasa jauh lebih baik”, ungkap Pedrosa seperti dikutip situs resmi MotoGP.
“Saya tidak merasakan sakit (yang saya rasakan) sebelum operasi dan evolusi sangat baik. Saya sudah memulai rehabilitasi dan hasilnya sangat positif. Setiap hari saya melihat perbaikan dan ini sangat bagus karena saya benar-benar ingin kembali naik motor secepat mungkin. Jujur sangat sulit bagi saya untuk ke Assen, tapi saya benar-benar percaya saya akan OK. untuk Mugello, jadi sekarang saya fokus untuk lebih baik setiap hari dan melihat seberapa jauh yang saya dapatkan. Saya ingin kembali secepat mungkin, tapi saya ingin melakukan hal yang benar.”

Casey Stoner menjadi bintang iklan Honda CBR1000RR

ITGP – Honda Australia telah merilis sebuah video commercial baru dengan bintang local hero, Casey Stoner. Video dengan kualitas sinematografi yang lumayan bagus ini dimaksudkan sebagai promosi Honda CBR1000RR di benua Kangguru. Dengan seragam lengkap team Repsol Honda, juara dunia MotoGP 2007 tampak mencoba special edition Casey Stoner Repsol Fireblade.

Kehadiran Stoner di team Repsol Honda mendapat sambutan baik dari warga Australia. Karena itu, sejak bulan Februari lalu, Honda Australia telah merilis CBR1000RR replika Stoner. Bukan cuma berkelir Repsol, motor tersebut juga dilengkapi dengan nomor 27 dan tanda tangan Casey. Dibuat dalam edisi terbatas (170 unit) dan dibanderol dengan harga AUD $18,790.

Australia Threatened Absence MotoGP title

Circuit Phillip Island MotoGP threatened absent held in summer 2012. It followed complaints about the weather a few drivers during October.

If you want to continue to hold a MotoGP, so the organizers were asked to shift the race schedule into March. Australian MotoGP Dorna as promoters call a change that must be done. If not, then the race will not be approved and will not take place.