MotoGP Championship 2007 in Assen, Holland

This time, the race was held in Assen, Netherlands. And thank God, Rossi won the race, followed by Stoner in second and Hayden in third. This was the first time Hayden been in podium in this season. Rossi, who was qualified in 11th, manage to catch Stoner, who was in 1st place at the beginning of the race, manage to overtake Stoner at the last 5 laps, if I'm not mistaken. Pity to Vermeulen, after the accident, he was in the last place. Nice one Rossi, hope you'll win the next grand prix in Germany.

Qualification:

Race result:

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MotoGP Championship 2007 in Donington Park, Britain.

It was a good race anyway. This time, it shows the adavantages of each tyre's manufacturers in MotoGP, that are Michelin and Bridgestone. The race was won by Casey Stoner, from Ducati Malboro Team, again. The second place was Colin Edwards from yamaha Team and third was Chris Vermeulen from Suzuki Team. I salute to Bridgestone because their 'wet' tyre provide a better grip than the Michelin and become better and better as the track become drier. Once Casey overtook Edwards at the middle of the race, he left Edwards far behind until the end of the race. Unfortunately, Rossi couldn't maintain his position, that was 3rd at the end of a few laps as he was overtook by Vermeulen. He managed to get 4th position. This will increase tensions to Rossi as the championship points between him and Casey become wider and wider, with 26 points behind Casey. But hell, anything can happen, right? Hope Rossi will win the next GP that is in Assen.

Below is the result.

The Sunday's ride mishap....

That time, I was on the way back home. Normally, most of the riders including me using the Karak's highway to go home. But, this time, I want to make something different. I rode back home using the old, Ulu Yam road. Usually, most of the riders from Kuala Lumpur, will use this road to go to Awana.

On the way back, using Ulu Yam's road, I stopped by a nice waterfall at the side of the road, since it have a nice scenery. I put my helmet on a flat big rock, and thought it is stable. The moment I left it, suddenly, the helmet roll over and fell into the waterfall. I tried to catch it, but I couldn't.

But, thank God, there's an elderly man with his family at the down stream of the waterfall, and thank God again, he heard my help. He rushed into the waterfall and saved my helmet. Haha. And again, thank God that the waterfall is not too deep. I thanked him so many times, since my helmet is Nolan.

Then, I went home with a really wet helmet on head. I really grateful to the old man. The moral of the story, never put your helmet really close to a waterfall. Haha.

How to change a motorcycle tyre by hand?

This video show how to change your motorcycle tyre by hand. In this instruction video he change a motorcyle tyre by hand with no hydraulic presses are used. Just plain old fashion labor. Thanks to ObiTwanK for this wonderful knowledge he had shared.

Knee scraping on a Zephyr, amazing!

I found this in YouTube and I really amaze that the rider can knee scraping on a Zephyr. I've tried before this, and I only managed scraping only the foot-pegs. Enjoy....

MotoGP Championship 2007 in Catalunya, Spain

Sadly, couldn't watch it since our satellite tv distrupted by heavy downpour this evening. Heard from the forum that it was a good race, fight between Stoner, Rossi and Pedrosa. Stoner won the race, followed by Rossi in second and Pedrosa in third.

Gran Premi Cinzano de Catalunya - June 10th
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Casey Stoner took his fourth World Championship victory of the season in an absolute thriller of a race at Catalunya. The Ducati factory rider rode the race of his life to deny Valentino Rossi his third consecutive win at the Spanish circuit, but was pushed all the way as he headed a podium separated by under four tenths of a second.

Stoner absorbed every manoeuvre that Rossi threw at him in the pressure cooker atmosphere of the Circuit de Catalunya, never losing his cool despite being put on the back foot on more than one occasion. The Australian first took the lead on the second lap as he roared down the home straight, but had home rider Dani Pedrosa to contend with in the early going. When Rossi finally showed his cards on lap ten to give the Spaniard a back seat view of an epic battle, the two way duel between the championship leader and the experienced race winner was set. Stalking Stoner at every turn, Rossi assessed his options in cerebral fashion; letting the 21 year old know that he was there as he slipped through on a number of corners.

‘The Doctor’ finally made the lead stick on lap 21, resisting an attempt at a quick comeback on the home straight. Stoner learnt his lesson, and pulled ahead on the next lap before predicting his Italian rival’s line. He continued in the lead until the finish line, passing the flag just 0.069 ahead of Rossi.

After taking the holeshot, Pedrosa had been expected to push for the win on his Honda RC212V, but was only really able to make advances on the second placed rider after the midway point. Tucked in behind the leading duo, the Spaniard waited to capitalise on any possible mistake from either rider, making overtures towards overtaking moves when Rossi or Stoner strayed from their lines. In the end Pedrosa had to settle for third, meaning that his winless run extends to fifteen races; the last time that he stepped onto the top of the rostrum being at Donington Park where the riders return in two weeks time. A home victory in MotoGP still eludes the former 125cc and 250cc World Champion.

John Hopkins took a comfortable fourth place on the Suzuki GSV-R800, separated from the top three dragging each other further away from the Anglo-American as the race went on. Gutsy Frenchman Randy de Puniet took his best ever MotoGP result from second on the grid, gritting his teeth to take fifth despite a nasty haematoma in his leg restricting his movement onboard the Kawasaki ZX-RR.

Loris Capirossi took the second Ducati home in sixth from seventeenth on the grid, ahead of Chris Vermeulen, Alex Barros , Marco Melandri and Colin Edwards. Toni Elias was the only rider not to finish the race, retiring with engine problems.


250cc



Jorge Lorenzo bounced back from his Mugello disappointment with a dominant victory at his home circuit, his first ever win at the Circuit de Catalunya. The reigning 250cc World Champion was in a class of his own after storming off the pole spot, and put on a masterclass for the 100,000 fans gathered at the Barcelona track.

The 20 year old’s fifth win of the season continues the quarter litre class trend of victories from pole, something quite different to the current state of affairs in the MotoGP class. The Spain’s No1 Aprilia rider celebrated his triumph with two lookalikes and a giant microphone, and certainly has something to sing about with a 36 point advantage in the general classification. Alex de Angelis took second in the race to close the gap between himself and Andrea Dovizioso to just two points, with the latter unable to repeat his 2006 victory in the face of such strong competition and having to settle for the final podium place. He was ten seconds behind De Angelis on crossing the line.

Thomas Luthi had another great ride that belied his relative inexperience in the 250cc category, taking fourth ahead of fellow rookies Alvaro Bautista and Mika Kallio. Hiroshi Aoyama, Hector Barbera, Marco Simoncelli and Julian Simon completed the top ten.

There was late disappointment for Aprilia wild card Alex Debon, who crashed whilst in fifth position with just six laps remaining. He remounted to complete the race in 16th.



125cc



Tomoyoshi Koyama took his maiden World Championship win in a great 125cc race at the Circuit de Catalunya, giving the class it’s sixth different winner of the season.

The Japanese rider had started from the second row, but had not really been in the running for victory until the latter stages. An amazing finale saw the 24 year old snatch victory on the closing lap and deny the home team –Spain’s Aspar squad- the win. ‘Koyamax’ has had something of a stuttering start to his first season with Red Bull KTM, but finally confirmed his potential and showed just why Harold Bartol was so keen to draft him into his 125cc project.

An extremely tight leading pack, separated by little more than a second, meant that nothing could be taken for granted on the final time round the Barcelona circuit. Second placed finisher Gabor Talmacsi was out of the podium spots at the beginning of lap 22, but took advantage of an error by team-mate Sergio Gadea to take another rostrum finish and the championship lead.

Starting from fifteenth on the grid and with little experience of being involved in the top positions, Swiss rider Randy Krummenacher shocked everybody with his maiden podium place onboard the second KTM machine. Krummenacher led a 125cc race for the first time on lap sixteen, putting in times faster than those clocked during qualifying. Talmacsi’s experience may have been the deciding factor in preventing a KTM one-two, but the young rookie seems to have a bright future ahead of him in the lower cylinder class.

Having had to sit up on the penultimate corner, Gadea was denied a home podium on the Aspar Aprilia, finishing ahead of birthday boy Pol Espargaro. The latter quickly made his way up from eighteenth on the grid to fight with the front runners, and celebrated both his highest ever Grand Prix finish and his sweet sixteenth by blowing out the candles of his cake trackside.

It was a disappointed Bradley Smith who took sixth position, with the Briton believing that he could have won the race. Making a small mistake on lap nine provided those in front of him with the opportunity to break away from the sixteen year old, who benefited from a late crash between title contenders Lukas Pesek and Hector Faubel in front of him to move up by two positions.

Simone Corsi, Joan Olive, Stefan Bradl and Michael Ranseder completed the top ten, whilst Mattia Pasini once again failed to finish the race after suffering a nasty looking crash. The Italian –who has experienced more than his fair share of frustration this season- literally put the boot into his bike after the incident, enraged by his situation.

courtesy from MotoGP

Picture Of The Day - Monkey Rider

Haha. Got it from the internet.

Christian Pfeiffer and his crew, BMW Motorrad, motorcycle-stunt-show, during F1 in Malaysia.

This is the video made by Nik Huzlan and his son during a motorcycle stunt show made by Christian Pfeiffer during Formula 1 race in Malaysia, this year. He's really awesome and hope that someday, he'll be back in Malaysia. Enjoy!

Accident in Ulu Yam (Sunday 3rd June)

Last Sunday, me and Bob Vulcan went for a wedding event in Rawang. It was a Bob's friend's wedding. Although Bob had invited some of our friends to attend the wedding, only the two of us came there, excluded Bob's old friends which I'm didn't know them well. Huhu.

Then, after the event, we wanted to go back home, but, we had overshot from rawang towards Kuala Kubu Bharu, the road that lead to the legendary Ulu Yam-Genting Highland road. But still, the road will go to Kuala Lumpur anyway.

Then, we found a bike and a rider at the side of the road. The bike was totally damaged at the front. That time, it's looked like it will be raining. But, because of bikers' brotherhood (hahaha), we went back to help the rider. Surprisingly, the rider was Wan Tebuan's brother, waiting his little brother to bring their Storm pickup truck, to pick up the bike. He and his brother already upgrade their bikes. Wan Tebuan from RS 125 to CBR 1000 RR and his brother from ZX-6R to ZX-10R. He told us the whole story. It was told that his brother, Wan Tebuan accidentally hit a small hole before the accident. Then, after a few kilometres, the right handle of the front end suddenly broke before entering a corner. Then, he tried to control the bike, but didn't make it since there's a car on opposite direction was in his lane (the car trying to overtake a car). Then, he let go the bike, and the bike hit the road's barrier at the opposite side of the road.

After waiting several minutes, his brother came, with some friends. Then, we brought up the bike into the pickup truck and then we split to go home.

Hope that Wan Tebuan is okay and also the bike.



It was heavy downpour that evening. I'm stuck with Bob under a flyover for about 2 hours.

MotoGP Championship 2007 in Mugello, Italy.

It is nice race anyway. Hope it will be Stoner, but in the end, Rossi won it. Maybe, it is because of Pedrosa, Rossi, from 4th position, managed to snatch 1st position till the end.

Here's the result.
source from MotoGP