Valentino Rossi has been the star of the Italian Grand Prix Championship, winning it in front of sixty thousand tifossi who have attended the Mugello circuit.
Today’s race was a nice and interesting duel between the two Repsol Honda and the two four-stroke Yamaha. Rossi and Biaggi to fight for victory in front, their team did the same a few seconds behind for the entire test. Finally, the Repsol Honda Valentino Rossi has set Biaggi‘s Yamaha by just over two seconds ahead, while Ukawa has done the same, achieving the third place on the podium, but a lead of just two tenths.
250cc. the two Repsol riders Fonsi Nieto and Toni Elias have captured the attention of the race, the first for his excellent comeback, which has taken him from seventh place to the third end and the second for his performance throughout the entire test, his fifth race in the class, which has remained in the top four until the end. Elijah, who was third with two laps to go, could not avoid being overtaken by his own teammate on the last lap, entering the fourth goal. The race was won by local rider Marco Melandri, second in the fifteen points behind leader Fonsi Nieto.
The eighth-liter category has experienced today one of the best races of the season, with more than ten drivers fighting over the proof for the win. While Daniel Pedrosa was in this first group, his teammate Joan Olive was left at the first corner section of the test to be involved in a crash with the local pilot Giansanti. The victory was for Manuel Poggiali, with Daniel Pedrosa fourth in the final.