Heads and tails for the Repsol riders in Brazil. To Valentino Rossi this has been one of the happiest days of his life, having proclaimed today first MotoGP World Champion. After reaching the 2001 World 500cc Finally, the young Repsol rider has never again title this year getting in the best way he knows how to do: win. The race was not easy for any of the pilots present. The rain has intensified over the 24 laps that have given the pilots to plot carioca. After a pretty rough out, with Carlos Checa standing on the grid and a small melee at the end of a line in which they have been involved Daijiro Kato, Nobuatsu Aoki, Jose Luis Cardoso and Sete Gibernau.
Leading the race is installed Kenny Roberts, Valentino Rossi riding very comfortable in second place. In the second round Tohru Ukawa, Rossi and co-pilot only mathematically still had options for the title, has suffered a fall to lose grip under braking the front wheel of his Repsol Honda RC211V. From that moment Valentino Rossi only needed to add more than eleven points to be crowned World Champion, but his maverick nature has led him to fight for victory. Halfway through the race has come a great comeback by Czech and Valentino, warned by his team, has outperformed Roberts and increased the pace to avoid surprises. But now Czech has been very fast on the path from Rio, and only a fall after beating Rossi has prevented him fight at the end of the test for his first win in MotoGP. Only the front of the standings, Rossi has held firm until the checkered flag, celebrating his second world title in the premier class when there are still four races to go.
250cc. luck was not on this occasion accompanied by Fonsi Nieto, who after leaving far behind, has suffered a fall when they went back and was fifth reaching Melandri. On this occasion the Repsol could not return to the track, losing any chance of cutting the differences in the overall standings. Melandri, who finished fourth today in a race won by Argentine Sebastian Porto, has been located after this Grand Prix with a comfortable lead of 45 points over Fonsi Nieto, who remains second. Toni Elias, fifth at the end of the test, made a good run in the rain, exceeding its uneven performance of Portugal.
125cc. The victory was today for Azuma Japanese driver. Dani Pedrosa was unable to complete the test by breaking the engine in his Honda during the third round, losing so many options to contest the title to Vincent and Poggiali, who have staged a thrilling duel today, eventually finishing in that order behind winner. Joan Olive, very cautious at the beginning of the test target has entered the twenty-second position after leaving far behind at the start of the test.
