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Post by BADGER on Oct 21, 2007 8:53:36 GMT
Full MotoGP race results from the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, round 17 of the 2007 world championship.
1. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 43min 4.405 secs 2. Marco Melandri ITA Honda Gresini (B) 43min 6.106 secs 3. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (M) 43min 6.731 secs 4. Randy de Puniet FRA Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 43min 8.170 secs 5. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team (M) 43min 9.178 secs 6. Toni Elias SPA Honda Gresini (B) 43min 22.072 secs 7. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 43min 25.355 secs 8. John Hopkins USA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 43min 26.603 secs 9. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team (M) 43min 26.855 secs 10. Colin Edwards USA Fiat Yamaha Team (M) 43min 34.151 secs 11. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 43min 39.328 secs 12. Alex Barros BRA Pramac d'Antin (B) 43min 40.072 secs 13. Nobuatsu Aoki JPN Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 43min 48.518 secs 14. Carlos Checa SPA Honda LCR (M) 43min 48.891 secs 15. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 43min 54.063 secs 16. Shinya Nakano JPN Konica Minolta Honda (M) 43min 56.131 secs 17. Chaz Davies GBR Pramac d'Antin (B) 44min 3.310 secs 18. Makoto Tamada JPN Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3 (D) 44min 4.001 secs 19. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3 (D) 44min 27.524 secs 20. Kurtis Roberts USA Team Roberts (M) 44min 55.365 secs
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Post by BADGER on Oct 21, 2007 8:57:00 GMT
Casey Stoner's 2007 win tally reached double figures at Sepang, when the newly crowned MotoGP world champion resisted pressure from Marco Melandri and Dani Pedrosa to take his tenth victory of the season.
Starting from second on the grid, Stoner passed pole sitter Dani Pedrosa into turn one and - despite running wide at the final hairpin - still held the advantage over Pedrosa, Randy de Puniet and Melandri as the 20-rider field crossed the line at the end of lap 1 of 21.
The top four then began to stretch away from de Puniet's Kawasaki team-mate Anthony West, who was later given his second jump start penalty of the season.
Stoner was ultimately never overtaken, but the 22-year-old was never able to break more than two-seconds clear of the two RC212V riders. Melandri snatched second from Pedrosa just before the halfway stage and, despite Stoner smashing the 990cc lap record on lap 15, Marco had closed to within one second of Casey with three laps to go.
But the Australian responded to the pressure from his 2008 team-mate in typical style, quickly putting vital tenths between himself and the HondaGresini rider on his way to a 1.7secs victory margin, while Pedrosa prevented a Bridgestonepodium sweep with third on his Michelin-shod factory Honda.
de Puniet was firmly in contention for his second podium of the season for much of the race, despite a heart-stopping slide on lap four, but had faded to 1.4secs from Pedrosa by the chequered flag and then stopped on the slow down lap, indicating some form of problem.
Meanwhile, Valentino Rossihad dropped from ninth on the grid to eleventh at turn one, but his race pace was better than he had feared and the Italian was able to salvage fifth at the flag - making him the second best Michelin rider - as the Fiat Yamaha star finished 4.7secs from Stoner.
Melandri's team-mate Toni Elias claimed a solid sixth, after a tough battle with Repsol rider Nicky Haydenended with the American running off track at the final hairpin when he tried to outbrake the Spaniard on lap 13.
Hayden recovered to ninth, while Rizla Suzuki team-mates John Hopkins and Chris Vermeulen fought almost from start to finish - with Vermeulen getting the edge at the flag. The Australian is now four points from Hopkins in the fight for fifth in the championship, after Melandri's podium propelled the Italian ahead of them both. Marco will begin the season finale just one point ahead of Hopkins.
Wild-card Nobuatsu Aoki took 13th on the prototype 2008 GSV-R, while West took 15th and the final world championship point after his earlier penalty. Chaz Davies finished his third MotoGP race in 17th place, on a day when all 20 riders reached the finish.
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