http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...kes/9055377.stm

The whole race must have been so exciting to watch, and they are team mates no sign of team orders here! ... its only a two minute clip, but wow.

 

Beats the hell out of F1 doesn't it ?

Proper racing....

 

Absolutely

 

Sometimes even MotoGP can be processsional but there is one fundamental difference from FI in that the rider makes more of a difference than the driver.

 

Now that Lorenzo has won the title, the next 3 races should be balls out duelling.

Better still, next season with the 2 of them in different teams is a real mouth watering prospect.

 

Thanks for posting, that was one of the most exciting few minutes of motorsport ive seen for a while!

 

Shame that Lorenzo had a whine about it, and Yamaha subsequently had a "frank" discussion with Rossi about his riding style when near his team mate. Man up matey, and sort it out on the track

 

On the commentary from yesterday's Malaysian GP either Moody or Ryder siad that Rossi had said something along the lines of "the day when they tell me to go slower is that day I don't turn up for work".

Behind his jokey Italian manner Rossi is a right hard bar steward. He hands it out but you never hear him moaning when someone else hands it back to him.

 

That was a great battle to watch. It's funny because I have confidence that Rossi knows what he's doing and won't take them out, I just don't trust Lorenzo to do the same. He's too much of a hot head for my liking.

As was posted above, Rossi never moans about these kind of battles on the track, but everyone else does. Seeing this close racing is what people pay to see when they go to watch racing. What a shame F1 isn't more like this.

I can't wait for next season now that Rossi is moving on to Ducati. I'm guessing Rossi hasn't done a great deal of development on the 2011 Yamaha now that he's leaving. So I guess that's down to Mr Lorenzo. So it will be interesting to see how the bike turns out next year. Also I just can't see the young hot head keeping his title. He only won it this year by default because Rossi broke his leg and Pedrosa injured himself as well.

 

Add to that whilst there is no inter team data sharing from the tests and races, Rossi developed the bike that Lorenzo rides, so we're about to find out just how good as an all round package Lorenzo is. My own personal feeling is that he'll have his hands full with his new team mate, on a poorly developed bike.

As for Rossi, Ducati can't fail with him on the bike, it'd be a total PR disaster. Expect Burgess and co to work their magic with the bike over the winter. Oh, and bring on 2012 when the big bikes are back (sort of).