After an intense start of the 2002 season, the World Cup returns to his usual pace in Europe. This weekend will be held at the Le Mans circuit, near the capital Paris, the French Grand Prix Championship, scoring for the fourth round of the World Motorcycling Championship. To Valentino Rossi in front of the classification and teammate Tohru Ukawa second at 29 points, the focus will probably this weekend in the race for the leadership between the two Repsol riders. Valentino has won two victories, Japan and Spain, and a second place after three races, while teammate Ukawa fell in Japan, won in South Africa and finished third in Spain.
Fonsi Nieto Jerez became the big star and local hero. In a spectacular comeback, something to which we are accustomed recently moved from fourth place in race trim the first after more than a second to the leader of the Grand Prix, Italian Rolfo. His victory in Jerez, has placed the leader of the classification, position Fonsi want to keep after the Grand Prix. For Elijah, still immersed in their learning process and in solving some problems of tuning, France will be a good place to keep working, as it was on this circuit where last year he took the podium at the World Cup on 125cc. by then, for the first time in his career.
And in the smallest of the three categories, Alberto Puig’s pupils come to a difficult and very technical track that will surely they will require hard work and perseverance. Last season things were not too good to Dani Pedrosa, seventeenth, and Joan Olive, to whom an engine failure forced him to take the path of boxes. Their greater experience and knowledge of the circuit will undoubtedly be of great help in Le Mans. Olivé Pedrosa fourth and ninth in the Grand Prix of Spain, in France without a doubt that both will attempt at least to repeat results.
