Casey Stoner had no rival even on Monday
Casey Stoner had no rival even on Monday

Video: Casey Stoner had no rival even on Monday

Video: Casey Stoner had no rival even on Monday
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First race of the season, first on Monday and first win for Casey Stoner. The Ducati rider did not give a choice, he started first and has come first to a "chorizo" of Valentino Rossi, who also made a run trying to catch up with the Australian. But Casey had learned a lesson well. Green traffic light, full throttle and opening a gap compared to the rest, a gap that was almost a second after the first lap.

While Rossi fought with Lorenzo and Dovizioso from behind, Stoner did not stop setting times that had nothing to do with those of his rivals, and soon he was more than three seconds ahead. Rossi he forced the machine a lot, in a flawless race and nothing could do to reach him.

From behind and closing the podium, Jorge Lorenzo arrived, who made a race from less to more in which he showed that this year may be his first opportunity. But it was certainly a Dani Pedrosa's career, which despite arriving in very poor physical condition due to the knee injury, came out like a missile and finished sixth. Too bad he ran into a brainless man named De Angelis who almost knocked him to the ground. Finally Pedrosa was eleventh.

Another that has made a run and surely this season gives us more than one surprise has been Sete Gibernau, who finished in thirteenth position. The Barcelona rider already said that he was coming back to have fun on the bike, and he had fun for almost the entire race ahead of the official Ducati rider Nicky Hayden and others who are not exactly there to have fun, such as Melandri, Takahashi, Toseland or Canepa.

Toni Elías has been ninth and the final classification has been the following:

1 C. STONER AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 42'53.984 2 V. ROSSI ITA Fiat Yamaha Team + 7,771 3 J. LORENZO SPA Fiat Yamaha Team + 16,244 4 C. EDWARDS USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 + 24,410 5 A. DOVIZIOSO ITA Repsol Honda Team + 27,263 6 A. DE ANGELIS RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini + 29,883 7 C. VERMEULEN AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP + 33,627 8 M. KALLIO FIN Pramac Racing + 34,755 9 T. ELIAS SPA San Carlo Honda Gresini + 39,481 10 R. DE PUNIET FRA LCR Honda MotoGP + 42,284 11 D. PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team + 48,526 12 N. HAYDEN USA Ducati Marlboro Team + 48,883 13 S. GIBERNAU SPA Francisco Hernando Group + 52,215 14 M. MELANDRI ITA Hayate Racing Team + 56,379 15 Y. TAKAHASHI JPN Scot Racing Team MotoGP + 1'00.286 16 J. TOSELAND GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 + 1'14.978 17 N. CANEPA ITA Pramac Racing + 1'15.028

Finally, the only one who could not finish the race was Loris Capirossi, who crashed on lap 15.

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