After fifteen Grand Prix, seven months of operation and 375 points played, World Championship 2002 will end on Sunday November 3 and will in the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia. The balance may be made of the Repsol riders in the absence of the last test, all positive, assessing the degree held by Valentino Rossi and Repsol Honda RCV211 novel V, and the runner-up in the 250cc Fonsi Nieto.
Valentino Rossi has swept this season in the brand new MotoGP class where he has joined, to date, a total of 335 points, eleven wins and three second places. And his teammate Tohru Ukawa, who won a Grand Prix and second in the standings for most of the season, will try to proclaim the MotoGP World Championship runner-up in Valencia. To this end, the brave Japanese driver will finish ahead of Max Biaggi, who holds the second position and leads him by one point. Fonsi Nieto, with the World runner-up under his arm, comes to Valencia ready to give the fans a victory that put the finale to a great season. Not be an easy target to reach, because the resistance of the recently proclaimed World Champion, Italian Marco Melandri, one must add the desire of his own team-mate Toni Elias. Elias, who in his first season in the 250cc class. have the ability to finish fourth and become the best rookie driver of the category, has shown an impressive increase over this season and he knows how to win. With the title decided and running at home, Elias will be the umpire. Marco Melandri and Fonsi Nieto will not be alone in Valencia. And in the smallest of the categories, Dani Pedrosa will be satisfied with third place last championship final, regardless of the result achieved in Valencia this Sunday. For the pupil of Alberto Puig, the third-place finish is a good place, despite having chosen the title until the Grand Prix of Australia. There are seven points separating teammate Joan Olive to find a place among the top ten in the general classification of the category. Olivé, whose ninth place shortened the gap with Australia and Borsoi Kallio, ranked ninth and tenth respectively in the standings, look at Valencia to end the season with a good result and squeeze through the first ten
