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News 19/11/06
Round 17. Valencia
: Ricardo Tormo
Seby ends the season with third MotoGP win in his career.
Seby clinched his second MotoGP win this year in today’s Gran Premio
betandwin.com de la Comunitat Valencia, putting on an impressive
performance to fend off the challenge of SkiDer and SFW.
Seby made a good start from pole-position to snatch the holeshot ahead
of SkiDer, while Transalp slipped back to third. The Italian ended his
campaign on another blow, his engine breaking out on lap three and
could only manage to finish 16th after a visit to the pits.
At the front, Seby rode a flawless race despite SFW and SkiDer pushing
hard on his tail, but never close enough to have a clear shot at the
lead. SkiDer managed to beat SFW by the chequered flag to take second
position. With this third place finish for SFW, he consolidated his
second position in the Championship, finishing best runner-up behind
SkiDer despite Seby winning the race and closing in to only 7 points in
the Standings.
Aprilia’s MGR took fourth, crossing the line more than 7 seconds after
Seby, followed by veterans Biggie and team-mate Vouks. JC took seventh
on his comeback at Honda after poor results in the last two races,
ahead of Jarvis_Co. Gaz&Slide and DanyB16 completed the final top
10.
Seby:
"Hehe feels good to win again, too bad it didn't happen in the same
room with Skider and SFW. I had PC problems in my first race so I raced
again later and did a good job too.
I'm not very happy because I wish I could have raced with the top guys
but hey, shit happens...
My race was boring, good times until the end of the race when I made
few little mistakes which cost me 1-2 seconds but per total it was okay.
I'm still sad about Estoril when I fell 2 times and lost any hope for
2nd place in the standings so I have to say congrats again to SFW (I'll
eat u alive next year).
3rd spot in the standings is very good considering that at the start of
the year I was hoping to get 4th.
2 wins and 9 podiums will motivate me next year to fight for the title
right from the start, not from half way the season like this year."
SFW:
"Congratulation to Seby for this difficult win and Skider for a great
battle and a good race.
Some say that Seby's win is lucky because he raced alone but when you
think that Seby has been hosting all night long and finally when it was
his turn to race he experienced computer problems, then it was
dissapointment for not beeing able to race the finale against me,
Skider and transalp and then 2-3 hours of stress to make the game work
and finally when most of us would gave up Seby found some energy to do
a winning race... all I can say to this is: You are the man!
I had a good race with Skider again, I got a good start and could
control the race on the first few laps, but as the game has progressed
my lap times dropped a bit and by 2-3 laps to go Skider overtook me and
I've tried to fight back but after a few scary moments I've decided to
take it easy ans secure my 2nd spot in the championchip.
Next thing I want to say thank you all for participating this year and
I know it's sometimes hard to make free time to practice and be rdy for
the next race but those magic moments like when you wait for the lights
at the startgrid or sharing the cheers and dissapointmens right after
the race in the lobby room are really priceless and deffinettly woth
the effort.
Next year I hope to see all of you on the track and hopefully we would
have some more top riders and maybe some new guys joining the podium
(MGR, Vouks ?????).
Ofcourse this Championchip isn't only about the podium riders but
usually the hardest fight and closest finishes are between 10th and
20th place. In fact no mather what level a rider is there are always
similar strong riders to compete with.
btw Seby m8 plz don't cry next year after I've kicked you ass on the
track."
Skider has finished the season with a total of 440 points, 83 points
ahead of SFW and 90 in front of Seby.
Oasics Racing Team has beaten Lords Of Shadows by 33 points to take
their first Team's Victory.
Suzuki has taken the Constructor's title thanks to 15 podiums from
Skider, 83 points ahead of Yamaha.
Big congratulations and well done to MGR who has won 2 titles this
year: Rookie of the Year and MotoGP Class B
MGR's team-mate, Vouks, is the MotoGP Class A winner, his best result
was 2nd at wet PI.
DarkBringer has won the MotoGP Academy award, he and Wd did a very good
job considering this is their first year in gp500.
Skider (5 poles) has won the Qualifying award by only +1.075 in front
of Seby (4 poles) and +2.091 in front of SFW (7 poles). Also the Hot
Lap Award goes to Skider (7 hot laps), second is SFW (4 hot laps) and
Seby third (3 hot laps). And of course, Total Time Award goes also to
Skider because he has 10 race victories, the distance between him and
Seby: 42.696 seconds.
All time Statistics (3 years): Skider moved up to first with 14 wins,
SFW second with 13 wins and Transalp is third with 5 wins.
All time Total Points (3 years): SFW is first and the only rider who
braked the 1000 points barrier with a total of 1061 and 27 podiums from
47 races in which he raced.
Second is Seby with 890 points and 15 podiums from 50 races and third
is Transalp with 849 points and 12 podiums from 50 races.
It has been a long season, it has been a tough season, though it has
been a FUN season!
Stay tuned for the Winter Testing in January 2007.
Report by TT98 & Seby
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