2010 season finale in Valencia

The 18th and final round of the 2010 MotoGP World Championship this weekend will see the runner-up spot decided, with the following Official Test offering an immediate taste of what is to come in 2011.

The Ricardo Tormo Circuit hosts the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana this weekend for the 12th year running, and what has since 2002 been the traditional season-ending round. The 18th instalment of the 2010 MotoGP campaign will see runner-up to already-crowned Champion Jorge Lorenzo decided, with Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi the candidates still able to take the honour.

Pedrosa prepared for second place battle

The Repsol Honda rider arrives at Valencia for the final round of the season looking to secure the runner-up spot in the Championship, and he has a 19-point advantage over Valentino Rossi.

This weekend Dani Pedrosa will be hoping to give his home supporters something to cheer about as he goes all out to defend second place in the World Championship. With a 19-point lead over Valentino Rossi in third place, and after his impressive injury-defying race in Portugal on Sunday where he placed eighth, the 25 year-old is determined to put in another fighting performance at a track he loves.
Following last weekend’s Grand Prix of Portugal, Pedrosa visited the Dexeus Hospital in Barcelona to undergo electromyography scans on his

Pedrosa wraps up second in Championship

With a brave ride to seventh position at Valencia the Repsol Honda rider secured runner-up spot in the 2010 World Championship, as his team-mate Andrea Dovizioso finished fifth in the final race of the year.

Repsol Honda riders Andrea Dovizioso and Dani Pedrosa finished today’s Grand Prix of Valencia in fifth and seventh places after an enthralling 30-lap race that saw both riders carving their way through the MotoGP field. The final race of the season produced exiting duels throughout, and the Repsol Honda riders were in the thick of it from outset.

Dovizioso made a fast start from ninth on the grid and fought his way up

Inmotec: A MotoGP project in the making.

The firm’s efforts at developing the first Spanish-built premier class machine are now at an advanced stage, as discussed in this feature interview with Managing Director Oscar Gorria.

(Building a MotoGP bike: Inmotec’s project)
Spanish engineering firm Inmotec are now in the advanced stages of the production of their MotoGP prototype machine, the GPI10, and in the attached interview Managing Director Oscar Gorria explains the processes that have been involved and the future aims of the project.
Gorria talks about the initial stages of development right through to the testing process with rider Iván Silva and the progress of the project in general, as well as the anticipated debut of the bike in the MotoGP World Championship. Source: MotoGP.com

 

MotoGP Rewind: Valencia

The final round of the 2010 season, the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana, is reviewed in the latest free video from motogp.com.

The 18th round at Valencia brought the 2010 MotoGP World Championship to a fitting finale with a fantastic race won by World Champion Jorge Lorenzo, as Casey Stoner signed off from Ducati with second place and Valentino Rossi bade farewell to Yamaha with a final podium as well in third.
In the attached free video you can review the best moments of the weekend one final time in 2010! Source: MotoGP.com