The World Cup returns for the second time this season on Spanish soil and makes it on this occasion to mark the Catalan Grand Prix, which takes place at the Circuit de Catalunya for the occasion and launched a new main stand of spectacular dimensions in line goal. With the advent of the World Cup in Barcelona and the dispute of the sixth round of a season full of exciting developments and disputes, we expect a full public mass at the Catalan circuit is closer to see up close the evolution of the local drivers.
Valentino Rossi in MotoGP, with fans wherever he goes, seen in Barcelona a new opportunity to further extend their advantage. In a fast track as the de Catalunya with its long main straight, the Italian pilot and his Repsol Honda RC211V pursued his fifth win of the season, while team-mate Tohru Ukawa trying to halt and reduce the gap in the overall standings, home ranked first and second places respectively.
250cc. the leader of the standings, the Repsol rider Fonsi Nieto, will be willing to maintain its position in the rankings and increase 15-point lead over second-placed fellow Aprilia rider Marco Melandri. On a track where last season he finished fifth and Melandri Fonsi on the floor when he was third, another of the players will undoubtedly be the local rider Toni Elias, whose home is just a little over fifty miles of track. After her performance in Italy and his fourth, he Manresa pilot commitment to a continuity in Barcelona as his followers expect him his first podium of the season in the new category. No shortage of ways, as demonstrated in Italy to get it this weekend.
In the smallest of the displacements Daniel Pedrosa and Joan Olive will continue to seek to add the maximum number of points where it is, today, the most hotly contested of the three categories. Pedrosa is in Barcelona about the possibility, embraced by the home crowd, to cut the gap with the leader of the provisional, the Gilera rider Manuel Poggiali, which now separate him twenty points. Teammate Olivé, which in the last two races has been very unfortunate with individual falls, try to repeat at least the result, which resulted in Jerez, where he finished ninth.
