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This is how it begins.
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A motorcycle racer and his crew chief
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looking for speed.
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I'm thinking how to corner well
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with my knee to the ground
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how the crew chief has explained.
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It's difficult.
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This is how it begins.
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A motorcycle racer and his crew chief.
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And his race engineers and his suspension engineer
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and his tire engineer and his electronics engineer
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and his mechanics,
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looking for speed.
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From the smallest minimoto track to the fastest grand prix circuit,
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from little bikes that cost a few hundred
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to MotoGP missiles that cost millions.
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From 20-mile-an-hour childhood thrills
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to 220-mile-an-hour grand prix battles.
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The principle remains the same.
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Find the fastest line around the track.
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And then figure out how to go faster.
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Grand prix motorcycle racing is the process of turning fire into speed.
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The combustion of fuel and air in the engine
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and the fire in the heart of a rider willing to risk everything to win.
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Time is the enemy.
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The fractions of a second lost or gained in every corner
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which add up to defeat or victory.
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And the few years that you have to make it to the top
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and try to stay there.
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This is what you have to do.
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Brake as late as possible.
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Stay wide.
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Turn.
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Hit the apex. Accelerate.
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Brake.
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Lean... further.
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Faster.
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Stay on the motorcycle.
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Hit the apex. Accelerate.
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Stay on the motorcycle.
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Crashing... hurts.
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It wrecks your bike.
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It wrecks your body.
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It wrecks your chances.
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Stay... on... the bike.
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And fight.
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Every lap.
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Every corner.
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Every second.
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In 18 races around the world.
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Flat out for over 2,000 miles each season.
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Fight to the finish.
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Fight to the top.
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Fight.
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This is the story of six fighters.
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Six of the fastest motorcycle racers of all time
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and of the fates that awaited them at the peak of the sport.
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When the speeds had never been higher, the competition more intense
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or the talent on the track more brilliant.
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It's the story of what is at stake for all of them.
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All that can be won.
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And all that can be lost, when you go chasing glory
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at over 200 miles an hour on a motorcycle.
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I love sleep. I love sleeping.
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Marco, my helper, wakes me up.
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So I take some breakfast.
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I just feel that I'm more nervous than on Saturday.
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You start feeling the butterflies in your stomach.
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I hate this feeling.
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You feel more tired. You feel... You are less strong.
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Wake up, breakfast, warm up.
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Normally I sleep well but that time I will be a little bit nervous.
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Sunday morning, the feeling is always the same.
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Scary, fear, adrenaline.
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Think positive, but also scary to make some mistake.
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Together, the worst and the best moment of my life.
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Valentino, you're so handsome!
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The countdown to the MotoGP race at two o'clock
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is punctuated by the roar of the support events...
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The junior class at 11.
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The intermediate at 12.20.
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Then it's time.
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There are many things out of your control.
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These are the things that make you a bit uncomfortable
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in that particular hour before the race.
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I enjoy it.
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It's great to see my son get to the top.
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But you also suffer.
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As parents, we are afraid
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because it's very dangerous.
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The danger's inevitable.
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It's motor racing on two wheels at very high speeds.
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We're always trying to make it better.
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We're working on rider equipment. The airbags inside the leathers.
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And then the rules that I apply
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to not allow the riders to do things that put them in danger.
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The road to the MotoGP world championship
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is long, difficult and dangerous.
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It must be taken at maximum speed at all times.
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The finish line is thousands of miles,
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hundreds of races and hundreds of crashes from the start.
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Thousands of young riders go racing each year in Europe, Asia and America,
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dreaming of a place on the world stage.
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Very few of them will get there.
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Nobody knows the ferocity of the competition
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better than Valentino Rossi.
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He's raced in over 300 grand prix since 1996,
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won over 100 of them and taken nine world championships.
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He made it to MotoGP the way most of them do,
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rising through the junior and intermediate classes,
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learning the grand prix tracks on 140-mile-an-hour bikes.
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Then 170-mile-an-hour bikes
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before the move to MotoGP
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and over 200 miles an hour.
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Year after year, he's fought off wave after wave of challengers.
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Over 100 riders have come and gone in his time at the top.
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Rossi is the only one left from the MotoGP class of 2000.
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From 2001 to 2005, he won five MotoGP championships in a row.
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Rossi goes through and there's nothing Biaggi can do about it.
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Oh! They touched! He's wide!
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Oh, Rossi's pushing him off the track!
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Rossi's gonna take victory in the Spanish cup.
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He was the undisputed king of the sport.
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At the end of the decade he was still fighting, still winning.
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One more premier class title and he would equal the all-time record.
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One more step to cementing his status
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as the greatest motorcycle racer of all time.
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But by 2010, Rossi had his hands full.
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The men who could beat him had arrived.
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If you'd known where to look,
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you could have seen them coming for him all along.
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1994, Spain.
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Seven-year-old Jorge Lorenzo
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slips and slides his way around a car park in Mallorca.
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Casey Stoner on 166. Keep your eyes on Casey.
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1997, Australia.
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Twelve-year-old Casey Stoner leads the pack in a dirt-track race.
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Casey Stoner 166 with that nice comfortable lead.
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He led hundreds of dirt-track races there.
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He once won 32 in a single weekend.
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That's a very easy win in event number five.
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1999, Italy.
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12-year-old Marco Simoncelli wins the national Minimoto championship.
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The same competition Rossi started his career in.
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2000, Casey Stoner's family takes all their savings and moves to Europe.
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Racing on asphalt for the first time,
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Stoner finds himself up against the fastest rider he's ever seen.
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Dani Pedrosa, from Sabadell near Barcelona.
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Ten years later, the new generation are all on the grid with Rossi.
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Almost all of them, that is.
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There's another very fast one coming none of them know about yet.
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1997, Cervera, Spain.
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Marc Marquez gets a motorcycle for Christmas.
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He is three years old.
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Casey Stoner stunned Valentino Rossi and everybody else in 2007,
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his second year in MotoGP.
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The Australian didn't just beat Rossi to the world title that year,
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he wiped the floor with him,
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taking ten victories to the Italian's four.
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Yamaha then signed Jorge Lorenzo as their second rider for 2008.
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It was a statement. Rossi was the past.
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Lorenzo was the future.
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In 2010, the 23-year-old rode a perfect season.
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He finished every race, took nine wins and seven podiums
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and scored more points than anybody in history.
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I saw it when he was five.
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It was impressive how he could ride
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beyond logic, beyond the laws of physics almost.
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When you see that in a child
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you know there is great potential
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to go very far in this sport.
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He had it and other things besides.
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He's very stubborn. He's very hard-working.
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He sticks at thngs until he achieves them.
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He's a non-conformist. A perfectionist.
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And of all that together with the right circumstances
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has enabled him to reach the level he's now at.
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Dani Pedrosa excelled on the smaller bikes,
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winning three titles.
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In MotoGP, the diminutive Spaniard finished second to Stoner in 2007
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and second again to Lorenzo in 2010,
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pushing Rossi down to third in the championship standings.
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With Valentino Rossi in apparent decline at the age of 31,
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Italy is looking for a new MotoGP hero.
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Enter Marco Simoncelli.
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I took him to ride mini bikes.
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I didn't take him to piano classes.
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He loved it. It was easy.
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The first race, he fell three times. He didn't win.
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But he learned fast.
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All of them, I've seen all his races.
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Little by little, with difficulty, with many concerns,
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we got where he wanted to be.
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From his determination and the way he rode
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we always knew he would be great.
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Me and his mum.
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Racing in the intermediate class,
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Simoncelli took six victories in 2008
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and clinched the world title in the tropical heat of Malaysia.
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Marco, how does that sound, to be world champion?
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It's wonderful.
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I... I...
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I can't speak.
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I am too hot. I'm sorry.
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Congratulations anyway, Marco. Thanks very much.
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It's wonderful. Grazie tutti.
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Scusati.
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Marco Simoncelli lived in Coriano,
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a few miles from Valentino Rossi's home in Tavullia.
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Eight years Rossi's junior,
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he sharpened his skills on the same twisting roads
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that the world champion had ridden as a teenager.
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And over time, the world champion became a friend and mentor.
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From 2007, I passed a lot of time with him.
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Every day at the gym, motocross, go-kart.
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A lot a lot together.
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Yeah, he was my best friend in the paddock.
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Our relationship become more deep.
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The doors to MotoGP opened for Simoncelli.
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He made his debut in 2010 with Fausto Gresini's team.
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Like everybody before him, he struggled.
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At first he had some trouble and he crashed a few times.
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But moving from two-stroke engines to four-stroke engines,
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going from one way of working to another takes time.
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It's a huge leap in performance.
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From a top speed of around 170 miles per hour in the intermediate class
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to over 220 in MotoGP.
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A MotoGP bike accelerates faster than a Formula 1 car.
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Crashing can mean flying through the air
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faster than a free-falling skydiver.
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A 200-mile-an-hour landing survivable
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as long as you hit the ground at a shallow angle and slide.
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At the beginning of the season, we were in big trouble with the bike.
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Step-by-step, we improved every race.
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And now the last three races for me are so positive,
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I hope to end the season in the best way
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and to step up on the podium.
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There is Marco Simoncelli. Simoncelli is gonna do it.
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No! Dovizioso has so much more drive
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coming out of the Parabolica.
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Well done, Simoncelli. He's going to be disappointed.
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That's his dad, isn't it? Giving him a big hug.
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Marco Simoncelli, we're gonna see a lot of you next season.
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I don't think there's any doubt about that. Great ride.
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By the end of the year,
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Simoncelli had emerged as one of the fastest of them all.
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He hadn't won a race yet, but he'd won a lot of hearts.
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He was just what many people wanted in a motorcycle racer,
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a demon on the bike and a nice guy off it.
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I'm happy for the big improvement that I do
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with my team during this year.
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And the results coming better and better.
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And now we hope to continue in this way.
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At the final race in Valencia,
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he qualified on the front row for the first time,
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ready to take on anyone,
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including newly-crowned world champion Jorge Lorenzo.
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Jorge Lorenzo fights back against Marco Simoncelli
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and gets up the inside.
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Simoncelli fights back immediately.
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He loves to be aggressive, doesn't he?
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I read something he tell about my riding style,
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but, I don't know, for me he said some wrong things...
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Because he said I touch him and maybe he crashed.
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Lorenzo dives for the inside line and touches!
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Oh, he was almost down! And he was just hanging on.
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Lorenzo is absolutely furious!
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I was in front and he tried to pass me and he did a mistake.
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He hurt me.
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His tire was on my leather from the leg to the shoulder.
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So for me it's not a correct example.
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It's working? Yeah?
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For my side, I think yesterday I speak the right words.
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And for me, it's not a problem.
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If in the future, it doesn't happen anything, it's not a problem.
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We'll see what happens in the future.
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Yes, but you did a wrong example for me.
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I think you have a lot of touching with a lot of riders.
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Yes, but the example was wrong for me.
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How many races I doesn't crash? I don't touch any rider.
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I said that your example was wrong. Sorry, eh?
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This is your opinion.
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But I think a lot of people here in the paddock,
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a lot of riders have the same opinion of me.
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Try to ask.
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Ask Dovizioso for example...
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For example, ask Dovizioso in 2005.
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It doesn't matter. If in the future it doesn't happen,
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it's not a problem for me.
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But in the future if something happens with you, will be a problem.
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OK. I will be arrested.
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OK, let's quiet... Let's calm down a little bit.
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Sorry.
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No, you and Marco, that is fine. That's no problem.
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I can speak?
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Of course you can speak. Please.
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No. This question... Everybody's laughing...
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But it's not funny because we are playing with our lives.
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We are riding at 300 per hour.
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With bikes, very powerful and very heavy.
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It's not mini-bikes.
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So, it's a dangerous sport.
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And you have to think what do you do.
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At the highest level,
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motorcycle racing is a display of dangerous brilliance.
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The performance of death-defying feats of skill and daring.
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That is the underlying contest.
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A dance with potential destruction.
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You know that this is dangerous.
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When you ride at 100%, you always risk.
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but when you have the feeling that the situation is under control,
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you can push the last 10%.
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We know the dangers of racing.
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You need to respect the riders next to you.
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You don't know the last time you'll see them.
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We go into races knowing it can happen. You don't think about it.
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If that starts creeping in your mind, then you leave.
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You've gotta take risks to stay in the game.
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When you run the numbers, the odds are on the riders' side.
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Over an 18-race season, the practice sessions and races
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in the three MotoGP classes produce hundreds of crashes.
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Serious injuries are limited to a few broken bones most of the time.
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Do you know how many crashes there have been this year?
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Six hundred and ninety. Six hundred and ninety crashes.
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Fractures and so on? I don't know, about 30.
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In my career, also when I was young, I don't take a lot of risks.
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I take risks, but not more than necessary.
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Graziano took a lot more risks then me.
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Valentino Rossi's father Graziano was a grand prix rider
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in the Seventies and Eighties who retired through injury.
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Growing up, I learned from him.
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The son learned from the father's mistakes.
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Bad memories, a lot of crashes, a lot of injuries.
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So, yes, it's scary because he's my father.
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It will happen. Learning means crashing.
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When you're out to extract the maximum
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from a 240-horsepower motorcycle, there's no other way.
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Go over the limit and then you know where it is.
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A fast rider can learn to stop crashing.
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A slow rider cannot learn to go fast.
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You have to do it. You have to crash.
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And you have to learn from it if you want to stay around.
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There's many examples in this world of a very fast rider, but not smart.
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And their career's been very short. To be fast is not enough.
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You need to have a combination of being fast and brave
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and also be intelligent.
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In his rookie year in MotoGP,
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Jorge Lorenzo once crashed three times in a single weekend.
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I thought I was invincible.
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And I was not afraid to get hurt.
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I was not afraid of these kind of bikes,
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going at 340 kilometers per hour. I didn't care.
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It was a normal thing to crash so many times.
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And then suddenly I realize, OK, I need to stop.
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I need to change my mentality. I need to be more calm.
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I need to... to think more on the bike.
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We've been looking at the training that American fighter pilots do
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and also how the Israeli special forces train.
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The theory is that it's all in the mind
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so we work directly with the mind of the rider.
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There is no correct way to ride a MotoGP machine.
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The objective is to go as fast as possible and stay on the bike.
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How you do that is up to you.
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I came from dirt tracks. I came from sliding.
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I'm more than comfortable when the bike's going sideways.
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It's one of the mysteries of the sport.
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How two riders with styles as different as Stoner's and Lorenzo's
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can go round a three-mile race track
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within a thousandth of a second of each other.
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Stoner sideways, shaking and sliding.
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Lorenzo as if on rails.
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I'm pushing 100% and I'm going at the maximum.
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I am feeling the limit in every corner. I'm trying to be perfect.
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Every time he won a grand prix,
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the church bells in Rossi's home town rang out in celebration.
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105 times from 1996 to 2010.
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Then he moved to Ducati.
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And the bells stopped ringing.
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Ducati was an experience.
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Let's not say a happy experience.
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He suffered.
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When Jorge Lorenzo won the world title in 2010,
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Yamaha offered to keep Rossi on
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if he'd take a pay cut and accept number two status in the team.
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After a decade, as one of the highest paid sportsmen in the world,
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he might not have needed the money, but Rossi had always been number one.
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Casey Stoner had taken the best bike available for 2011.
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He was leaving Ducati for Repsol Honda,
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the team of his childhood hero, Mick Doohan.
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Rossi now did what everybody hoped he would.
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He said goodbye to his beloved Yamaha and he moved to Ducati.
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The Italian dream team was born.
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I remember writing if he wins a race,
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it would be like the Pope winning at Monza in a Ferrari.
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And it would be a fantastic story. But it was an unmitigated disaster.
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Casey Stoner had won 23 races for the Italian team.
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None of the other Ducati riders could come close.
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In 2009, when I first got on the bike,
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I couldn't believe how Casey could go so fast with it.
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Casey had extreme talent.
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Stoner's success rate at Ducati had declined over time, though.
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Ten wins the first year, then six, then four, then three.
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He had also missed three races through illness in 2009.
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Many thought the declining results were due to his health problems.
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They were wrong.
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Stoner wasn't getting worse as the years went by.
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The bike was.
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I had a very bad feeling. From the first time in Valencia.
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And I was very, very...
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Not desperate, but very worried to make the wrong choice.
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We copped a lot of flak from Valentino.
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Not just me but my whole team.
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Valentino and Jerry Burgess and all that.
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They'd said so many bad things about what Ducati had done
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and what myself and my crew had done. It really frustrated me.
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Rossi was hampered by a shoulder injury
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from a crash on a dirt bike in early 2010.
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At first he was in bad shape with his shoulder
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but then we realized the bike was in bad shape as well.
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Rossi was 15th fastest at the MotoGP test in Valencia.
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Stoner was fastest on the Honda.
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After the test, Rossi went back to Italy
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for surgery to repair his shoulder.
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Four months later, it was time to go racing.
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Stoner won the first grand prix of 2011 in Qatar.
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Rossi was seventh.
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The rain in Spain at the second race was good news for the Italian team.
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The wet conditions lowered speeds
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and reduced the forces which unsettled the Ducati in the dry.
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Rossi set the fastest lap in the race and looked on course for a win.
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He just needed to get past Stoner and Simoncelli.
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And now Valentino Rossi has got Casey Stoner in his sight.
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He's taken down Stoner!
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Valentino Rossi attacked from a long way back
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and he's taken out Casey Stoner.
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Rossi's got back on the track. Stoner's still having problems.
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Hey, how's the shoulder? It's OK?
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I'm very sorry.
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You having some problem with your shoulder?
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Obviously your ambition outweighed your talent.
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I'm very sorry.
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No problem.
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I had the helmet, I didn't hear very well.
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What was it? Your ambition outweighed your talent!
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Oh, my golly!
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What a thing for Casey Stoner to say to the nine-time world champion.
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I want to say that I don't want to hear what he said. It was better.
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At that time, I don't think there was truer words.
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A big part of why I said it was I have no respect for someone
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who comes into a garage with their helmet on to apologize.
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You don't do that. It's not the way it's done.
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So, yeah, it frustrated me a little bit and, erm, you know,
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I kind of won't deny that I enjoyed those two years.
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Watching him struggle a heck of a lot more than we did on the Ducati.
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Bad, bad.
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It just got worse.
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The longer he was there, the worse the bike became.
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They went forwards and then they went backwards,
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they never got there.
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He never said anything bad about it
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although he must have wanted to inside.
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He kept quiet.
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We have a lot of work to do.
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I lose too much in entry. I have too much slide.
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We try a lot of different things with the setting, but we don't fix.
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We're struggling. We need more experience on this bike.
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I am very slow. Very negative. We are not strong enough.
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His face was no longer that smiling, calm face.
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I didn't know what to say and nor did he.
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We are very, very sad.
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I lost the front, but seriously, I don't understand why.
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Something wasn't right in the team.
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We work together with Ducati.
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We try, but at this moment we don't fix a lot.
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It can be just a centimeter here or there that makes the difference.
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These are the secrets which only they know.
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The first year he crashed a lot which meant he was trying.
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It's not like he wasn't trying, he was giving it everything.
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Rossi wasn't the only one crashing too much in 2011.
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Marco Simoncelli was chasing his first podium.
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Marco Simoncelli is never gonna have a better opportunity
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to win a grand prix MotoGP race.
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Oh! Simoncelli's going down!
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Someone else gone, it is Simoncelli!
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Oh, Simoncelli's gone down!
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Marco Simoncelli, he's in line for a first MotoGP podium
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and crashes out at turn one.
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There was no secret that a few of us riders
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were a little bit concerned about his riding.
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Simoncelli's gone down! And he's taken with him Jorge Lorenzo.
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I think the problem is that he's not very conscious about the risks.
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Many, many, many riders want to make him a little calm in that time.
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I was technical director at the time, looking into race direction
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and it's very, very similar to early Lorenzo career
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with talented, really, really, hungry and full of confidence
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and wanting to ride aggressively.
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For him the race is to be aggressive.
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If you want to win, the talents are all aggressive.
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Valentino, when he started, was a talent. He was aggressive.
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Everybody's aggressive.
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Dani Pedrosa was building his strongest challenge for the title yet.
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He took second in Spain and won in Portugal.
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Going into the fourth race in France,
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he was just behind Lorenzo and ahead of Stoner in the championship.
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He now found himself fighting for second place with Marco Simoncelli.
506
00:34:42,450 --> 00:34:47,700
Saturday night, before the race in Le Mans was a weekend
507
00:34:47,830 --> 00:34:52,160
that had a lot of polemic on Marco because he's too aggressive.
508
00:34:52,290 --> 00:34:56,670
But I say to Marco, "Please, tomorrow, keep attention to all the other guys,
509
00:34:56,790 --> 00:35:00,800
because for sure all the people want to look for your mistake."
510
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,590
And he said, "Ah, yeah, yeah, good idea. I understand."
511
00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:06,470
But unfortunately the next day...
512
00:35:06,590 --> 00:35:10,180
Oh! Pedrosa's gone down! Did he catch the back wheel there?
513
00:35:13,140 --> 00:35:14,810
He holds his right collarbone.
514
00:35:16,180 --> 00:35:20,270
Marco Simoncelli has been given a ride-through penalty
515
00:35:20,390 --> 00:35:22,980
for that move on Dani Pedrosa.
516
00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:28,070
And Marco Simoncelli, that first ever podium finish in MotoGP
517
00:35:28,190 --> 00:35:30,780
has been wrenched from his hand.
518
00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:33,280
What happened is I broke my collarbone there.
519
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:37,410
I had to do two surgeries. I lost the championship.
520
00:35:37,530 --> 00:35:40,790
I was out for three races.
521
00:35:40,910 --> 00:35:42,910
It was a harsh blow for Pedrosa.
522
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,540
He'd only just recovered from breaking his other collar bone in 2010.
523
00:35:47,670 --> 00:35:53,260
I'm so sorry for his crash and for his injuries.
524
00:35:53,380 --> 00:35:59,180
But for me, I haven't done nothing incorrect.
525
00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:01,220
Had he never done anything wrong before,
526
00:36:01,350 --> 00:36:04,140
he probably wouldn't have copped that penalty.
527
00:36:04,260 --> 00:36:08,520
It did make him think, his riding was significantly better after that.
528
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,360
When he did the mistake with Pedrosa especially,
529
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,490
he suffered very much because people go to him and say,
530
00:36:19,610 --> 00:36:22,200
"You are a dickhead!"
531
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,740
Because Pedrosa crash and also have pain another time.
532
00:36:25,870 --> 00:36:28,580
And Pedrosa was very angry with Marco.
533
00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:32,500
And all the people in Spain was very angry with Marco.
534
00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:35,290
Before the race in Barcelona,
535
00:36:35,420 --> 00:36:41,300
arrive a letter with no signature with a gun.
536
00:36:42,210 --> 00:36:46,930
Someone from Spain give him a letter or a mail
537
00:36:47,050 --> 00:36:49,430
with "I wanna kill you."
538
00:36:55,020 --> 00:36:58,270
You can hear boos as he laps the track by himself.
539
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,020
Dani Pedrosa, not here.
540
00:37:00,150 --> 00:37:03,320
He'll have an operation on that broken right collarbone.
541
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,490
And I remember that in Barcelona we have a lot of bodyguards.
542
00:37:07,610 --> 00:37:13,160
Two bodyguards for the weekend. That makes everyone nervous, no?
543
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,290
He make pole position in practice.
544
00:37:16,410 --> 00:37:18,080
It will be one more lap
545
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,290
for the former 250cc world champion Simoncelli.
546
00:37:21,410 --> 00:37:22,750
He's protecting that.
547
00:37:22,870 --> 00:37:27,090
He's got pole! Marco Simoncelli pulled it out of nowhere.
548
00:37:27,210 --> 00:37:31,090
A 142.413! He's been second in the last two rounds.
549
00:37:31,210 --> 00:37:33,970
And he's pulled that out of absolutely nowhere.
550
00:37:34,090 --> 00:37:38,430
Marco Simoncelli, the rider who's been at the center of all the talk,
551
00:37:38,550 --> 00:37:40,300
all the debate, all the discussion
552
00:37:40,430 --> 00:37:44,180
for the last couple of weeks has now taken pole.
553
00:37:44,310 --> 00:37:46,810
I wonder what kind of reception he's gonna get
554
00:37:46,930 --> 00:37:49,480
as he wheelies his way around this circuit.
555
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:54,230
Simoncelli, despite all the boos is giving them the wave.
556
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,440
Thank you. I've got pole. Thank you.
557
00:38:05,950 --> 00:38:10,330
Marco Simoncelli took a careful sixth place in Catalunya.
558
00:38:10,450 --> 00:38:14,080
Casey Stoner won. Jorge Lorenzo was second.
559
00:38:14,210 --> 00:38:17,590
His lead in the championship shrinking to seven points.
560
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,090
Marco got a little bit too much of an attack from people.
561
00:38:25,340 --> 00:38:26,430
So he really backed off.
562
00:38:26,550 --> 00:38:30,600
You saw his results suffering because it was really affecting him.
563
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,230
Three races later, Dani Pedrosa was back.
564
00:38:37,350 --> 00:38:42,690
When I came back, I didn't try to have a talk with him.
565
00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:44,900
I kind of avoided.
566
00:38:47,190 --> 00:38:51,410
I regret that. Because life is too short to have enemies.
567
00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:58,490
Simoncelli crashed out of four of the first ten races that year.
568
00:38:58,620 --> 00:39:01,040
But then... things changed.
569
00:39:01,790 --> 00:39:06,830
My impression was that Marco had changed during the last races.
570
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,790
He was more conscious of the risk
571
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:13,590
and he was trying to be a more conscious rider.
572
00:39:15,380 --> 00:39:18,930
When he started to come back and his results started to get better,
573
00:39:19,050 --> 00:39:22,100
all of a sudden, he's racing like a true racer.
574
00:39:23,970 --> 00:39:25,720
Marco Simoncelli has done it.
575
00:39:25,850 --> 00:39:29,020
Marco Simoncelli has grabbed his first MotoGP podium.
576
00:39:29,140 --> 00:39:33,310
It's well deserved after everything he's been through this season.
577
00:39:34,770 --> 00:39:37,730
It feels unbelievable.
578
00:39:37,860 --> 00:39:44,200
I'm really, really happy and I want to say thanks to everybody
579
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,820
who never stopped believing in me when I was in a difficult moment.
580
00:39:46,950 --> 00:39:52,200
And everybody who helped me to arrive here today.
581
00:40:01,050 --> 00:40:04,090
With three races to go, Lorenzo was the only rider
582
00:40:04,220 --> 00:40:07,300
with any hope of beating Stoner in the championship.
583
00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:10,400
There were 65 points between them.
584
00:40:10,530 --> 00:40:13,410
The odds were stacked against the Spaniard.
585
00:40:13,530 --> 00:40:16,160
But you never know, Stoner might make a mistake.
586
00:40:17,990 --> 00:40:19,540
He didn't.
587
00:40:19,660 --> 00:40:22,040
Oh! Lorenzo goes down.
588
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,920
When he went down, the fingers of Lorenzo's left hand
589
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,960
were trapped between the clutch lever and the handle bar.
590
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,050
The lever amputated the tip of his ring finger.
591
00:40:33,170 --> 00:40:35,970
It was a horrible morning for Lorenzo.
592
00:40:36,090 --> 00:40:39,890
But a great afternoon for Casey Stoner.
593
00:40:44,140 --> 00:40:47,140
Casey Stoner now is closing up
594
00:40:47,270 --> 00:40:51,310
on the 2011 MotoGP world championship.
595
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,190
Simoncelli in second place. Everybody stands in Phillip Island.
596
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,570
Casey Stoner wins the Australian Grand Prix.
597
00:41:06,700 --> 00:41:09,830
The 2011 world champion!
598
00:41:10,870 --> 00:41:14,250
I won the home grand prix. I think it was our fifth in a row there.
599
00:41:14,380 --> 00:41:17,210
Won the second world championship on my birthday.
600
00:41:17,340 --> 00:41:18,840
That's a pretty special day.
601
00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:25,010
Marco Simoncelli was back on the podium at Phillip Island,
602
00:41:25,130 --> 00:41:27,850
second place his best result yet.
603
00:41:27,970 --> 00:41:33,390
Casey did a great season this year and he won the title
604
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,900
because this year he has been number one,
605
00:41:38,020 --> 00:41:42,480
the strongest rider in the track in every condition and in every race.
606
00:41:42,610 --> 00:41:48,740
My congratulation and also I want to say good luck to Lorenzo for his injury.
607
00:41:48,860 --> 00:41:52,700
Stoner might have locked up the title, but the fight was still on.
608
00:41:52,830 --> 00:41:56,700
For a racer, all that ever matters is the next race.
609
00:41:56,830 --> 00:41:58,580
There were two to go.
610
00:41:58,710 --> 00:42:03,710
I hope to continue to work in the right way and finish on the podium.
611
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:09,970
Maybe I hope, also, to stay on the first step of the podium.
612
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,720
The next race was at Marco Simoncelli's track.
613
00:42:17,850 --> 00:42:21,930
His nickname, Sic, is also the acronym of the circuit
614
00:42:22,060 --> 00:42:24,980
which had seen the biggest moments of his career to date.
615
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,270
SIC Circuit.
616
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,270
I remember the first time we went there
617
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:31,940
we found all these SIC T-shirts.
618
00:42:32,070 --> 00:42:34,150
His mum and I bought loads of them.
619
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:38,150
Because they were just the thing for us.
620
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,280
It stood for Sepang International Circuit
621
00:42:41,410 --> 00:42:45,290
but it was one of those strange coincidences.
622
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:48,370
At the end of lap one,
623
00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:52,210
Simoncelli was fighting Alvaro Bautista for fourth place.
624
00:42:52,330 --> 00:42:53,710
Bautista through.
625
00:42:53,830 --> 00:42:57,880
Simoncelli did well just to bring that back on the inside of Alvaro Bautista.
626
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,380
Stoner leads by a second on that first lap, but it's not done and dusted.
627
00:43:01,510 --> 00:43:06,050
This is just what we would have wanted as Bautista was through on Simoncelli.
628
00:43:06,180 --> 00:43:09,560
Down the straight there is one place Simoncelli struggles on the track.
629
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,180
Oh, as Bautista then round the outside...
630
00:43:12,980 --> 00:43:16,850
Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi were just behind Simoncelli.
631
00:44:00,690 --> 00:44:05,110
I touch him but I was behind Colin. I see him just at the last moment.
632
00:44:10,450 --> 00:44:14,030
I saw him crash. I was looking up in the corner and he's crashed.
633
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:19,040
I'm gonna duck under and get a good drive to the next corner.
634
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,660
The next thing you know, he was right in front of us.
635
00:44:21,790 --> 00:44:25,630
He lost the front. He was just fighting to get it back.
636
00:44:25,750 --> 00:44:30,840
He's a fighter and he wasn't willing to give it up.
637
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:35,970
When I saw Marco crash, I think Marco go on the outside like normal.
638
00:44:36,090 --> 00:44:38,810
Never coming to the inside.
639
00:44:38,930 --> 00:44:43,270
We saw it happen and we looked away and we're in the opposite direction
640
00:44:43,390 --> 00:44:45,140
from where that crash is happening.
641
00:44:45,270 --> 00:44:48,310
And it just came back to us. There was nothing we could do.
642
00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:02,160
We can confirm Marco Simoncelli died today at 4:56pm.
643
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,420
I went to his father.
644
00:45:10,540 --> 00:45:12,960
And...
645
00:45:13,090 --> 00:45:18,380
Just look at the eyes, that's all you can say.
646
00:46:01,460 --> 00:46:04,970
All the important things Marco did, he did in Malaysia.
647
00:46:06,180 --> 00:46:10,720
The worst crash, the only time he hurt himself was in Malaysia.
648
00:46:10,850 --> 00:46:14,270
On the 125, in 2003 or 2004.
649
00:46:14,390 --> 00:46:19,230
Then he won the world championship in Malaysia.
650
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:25,860
He set the fastest lap in the MotoGP test in Malaysia.
651
00:46:27,190 --> 00:46:28,240
Everything.
652
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:32,070
And then he chose to die in Malaysia.
653
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,370
It's a strange thing. Very strange.
654
00:46:56,350 --> 00:47:00,180
I didn't want silence. Silence creates anguish.
655
00:47:00,310 --> 00:47:02,600
Marco would have wanted noise.
656
00:47:02,730 --> 00:47:05,560
He was a noisy guy.
657
00:47:52,940 --> 00:47:54,860
The race never ends.
658
00:47:56,190 --> 00:48:01,530
The new season began in April 2012 in the darkness of the Qatari desert.
659
00:48:03,740 --> 00:48:05,030
They were all there.
660
00:48:06,950 --> 00:48:08,290
All but one.
661
00:48:15,130 --> 00:48:16,960
Did you think about stopping?
662
00:48:17,090 --> 00:48:18,750
No, never.
663
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:23,760
It's not a problem of MotoGP.
664
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:29,180
It was a bad thing because I lose a friend, you know?
665
00:48:29,300 --> 00:48:36,100
But I never make the link that this can stop my career.
666
00:48:36,230 --> 00:48:39,150
I will stop when I don't like any more
667
00:48:39,270 --> 00:48:43,900
to race with motorcycles but not for that reason.
668
00:48:46,860 --> 00:48:51,740
Everyone in this world knows what can happen.
669
00:48:51,860 --> 00:48:54,450
They are not crazy people.
670
00:48:54,570 --> 00:48:58,370
That is a fight between those guys and...
671
00:48:58,490 --> 00:49:00,120
Death.
672
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,250
In the mind of a rider, that is the biggest challenge.
673
00:49:04,370 --> 00:49:09,750
They are afraid as any other person, but they decide to have that fight.
674
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,630
That fight gives a really strong energy
675
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:16,720
to feel the life, the blood rolling around your body.
676
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,390
Since the Roman Empire there was in the Coliseum the gladiators.
677
00:49:20,510 --> 00:49:22,260
These are a kind of gladiator.
678
00:49:22,390 --> 00:49:27,100
If you ask yourself does it make sense? No.
679
00:49:27,230 --> 00:49:31,730
We are crazy to risk the life of young people for what?
680
00:49:31,860 --> 00:49:36,860
But it's also true this is part of human culture.
681
00:49:36,990 --> 00:49:40,780
It's been like this since the beginning and probably will be like this forever.
682
00:49:40,910 --> 00:49:45,740
This reminds us to respect the things we do.
683
00:49:45,870 --> 00:49:49,330
And... sometimes you get criticized.
684
00:49:49,460 --> 00:49:54,040
This guy... From the sofa, it's very easy to point the finger.
685
00:49:54,170 --> 00:49:57,960
But then you see these things and everybody's like,
686
00:49:58,090 --> 00:50:01,420
"Oh, what happened? What happened?" But it's already too late.
687
00:50:01,550 --> 00:50:07,050
So we are not just some guys that live the dream.
688
00:50:07,180 --> 00:50:08,760
We are also humans.
689
00:50:08,890 --> 00:50:13,180
This is part of the game. The game of life.
690
00:50:13,310 --> 00:50:15,770
We're here today, tomorrow we don't know.
691
00:50:15,890 --> 00:50:20,730
Sometimes in the evening when the light is fading
692
00:50:20,860 --> 00:50:23,070
you go to bed and thoughts come back to you.
693
00:50:23,190 --> 00:50:29,650
You re-live certain moments and it's very sad, very moving.
694
00:50:29,780 --> 00:50:34,990
But the next day, the light returns, life goes on.
695
00:50:35,870 --> 00:50:38,790
Valentino Rossi was serving out his time,
696
00:50:38,910 --> 00:50:41,540
the second year of his Ducati contract.
697
00:50:41,660 --> 00:50:45,420
It was hard to see him like that with out a victory in two years.
698
00:50:45,540 --> 00:50:49,040
To see him like that, his eyes no longer shining.
699
00:50:49,170 --> 00:50:52,630
To see him unhappy. It was awful.
700
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:03,270
Valentino is Valentino.
701
00:51:03,390 --> 00:51:05,890
If they don't give him the perfect bike the way he wants it,
702
00:51:06,020 --> 00:51:07,270
he can't risk it.
703
00:51:07,390 --> 00:51:11,690
He can't risk his life. It wasn't safe.
704
00:51:17,900 --> 00:51:22,870
Casey Stoner had a plan for 2012, do it again.
705
00:51:22,990 --> 00:51:25,240
Win the world championship and underline the fact
706
00:51:25,370 --> 00:51:28,040
that he was the number one rider in the world.
707
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,410
The chequered flag beckons the Australian.
708
00:51:30,540 --> 00:51:32,580
It will be his second successive win.
709
00:51:32,710 --> 00:51:38,750
He leads the world championship by one point after three rounds.
710
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:40,920
At the fourth race in France,
711
00:51:41,050 --> 00:51:44,970
the Australian announced the other part of his plan for the year.
712
00:51:45,090 --> 00:51:47,300
Casey now is gonna make an announcement.
713
00:51:47,430 --> 00:51:50,100
You know this has been coming for a couple of years now.
714
00:51:50,220 --> 00:51:52,470
At the end of this 2012 season,
715
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:57,440
I will be... not racing in the 2013 championship.
716
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,850
I will be finishing my career at the end of this season in MotoGP.
717
00:52:00,980 --> 00:52:04,570
And go forward with different things in my life.
718
00:52:04,690 --> 00:52:06,070
How could he do it?
719
00:52:06,190 --> 00:52:08,610
Walk away from it all, at the age of just 27,
720
00:52:08,740 --> 00:52:12,410
when he's got the best bike, he's the reigning world champion
721
00:52:12,530 --> 00:52:14,320
and he's making millions?
722
00:52:14,450 --> 00:52:16,490
There were all kinds of theories.
723
00:52:16,620 --> 00:52:18,580
The birth of his daughter Alessandra,
724
00:52:18,700 --> 00:52:22,330
ironically on Valentino Rossi's birthday.
725
00:52:22,450 --> 00:52:25,460
The possible effect of Marco Simoncelli's death.
726
00:52:25,580 --> 00:52:30,670
Stoner's loathing of the media and the MotoGP circus in general.
727
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,840
I'm sure he would like to live in the Eighties.
728
00:52:34,070 --> 00:52:36,940
Much less media people came to the racing.
729
00:52:37,070 --> 00:52:40,700
Riders, they don't need to care about any kind of image.
730
00:52:40,820 --> 00:52:42,910
They could say whatever they want.
731
00:52:43,030 --> 00:52:45,910
Now you have to be very politically correct.
732
00:52:46,030 --> 00:52:48,950
And you spend long hours speaking to the press,
733
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:50,990
doing events for your sponsors.
734
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,410
All I ever wanted to do was go racing.
735
00:52:53,540 --> 00:52:59,420
And unfortunately 90 to 95% of this job became media appearances.
736
00:52:59,540 --> 00:53:01,880
Everything else but racing.
737
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:09,090
That's the game now. Every big sport has a lot of communication
738
00:53:09,220 --> 00:53:10,890
and PR activity behind it.
739
00:53:11,010 --> 00:53:13,720
He was just burned out. It ate away at him inside.
740
00:53:13,850 --> 00:53:17,430
PR appearances, interviews and he took it all so personally.
741
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:21,060
And I said to him, "Case, just treat it as a job."
742
00:53:22,060 --> 00:53:26,110
I know it's a job. At the same time you're going out there,
743
00:53:26,230 --> 00:53:28,480
risking every day, you gotta have passion in it.
744
00:53:28,610 --> 00:53:31,070
When you lose that, it's hard to find the motivation
745
00:53:31,190 --> 00:53:34,030
to keep going out there and doing the same things.
746
00:53:34,150 --> 00:53:38,830
He might be retiring, but Stoner was not backing off.
747
00:53:38,950 --> 00:53:41,910
I wanted to go out wearing the number one plate.
748
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,370
We made a mistake in Sachsenring.
749
00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:47,710
And quite honestly, I was confident I would still win the championship.
750
00:53:47,830 --> 00:53:51,040
A month later, Stoner made a second mistake.
751
00:53:57,340 --> 00:53:59,680
I just made that mistake in Indianapolis
752
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,720
and destroyed my ankle and that was it.
753
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:06,180
The impact tore every ligament in his foot.
754
00:54:06,310 --> 00:54:08,600
He was out for three races.
755
00:54:10,180 --> 00:54:12,140
It was Dani Pedrosa's moment.
756
00:54:13,350 --> 00:54:17,560
He took victory in Germany, Indianapolis and the Czech Republic.
757
00:54:17,690 --> 00:54:23,110
With six races to go, he was just 13 points behind Jorge Lorenzo.
758
00:54:24,070 --> 00:54:26,650
Pedrosa qualified on pole for the next race.
759
00:54:26,780 --> 00:54:28,360
The San Marino Grand Prix.
760
00:54:29,490 --> 00:54:33,160
Ready for battle. Dani Pedrosa.
761
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,500
His fourth pole position of the season.
762
00:54:36,620 --> 00:54:41,750
Round 13. The MotoGP world championship.
763
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:43,960
Thirteen points
764
00:54:44,090 --> 00:54:49,720
between number 26 and number 99.
765
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,800
What's this? The bike's being taken away for Dani Pedrosa.
766
00:54:53,930 --> 00:54:59,100
Is there some kind of problem for Pedrosa who is in pole?
767
00:54:59,220 --> 00:55:00,930
What is going on?
768
00:55:08,230 --> 00:55:11,230
There is a problem with Dani Pedrosa's machine.
769
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:16,860
This would not be fair. This really just would not be fair.
770
00:55:16,990 --> 00:55:20,030
He does not deserve this after the season he's put together.
771
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:23,200
He's behind the safety car, isn't he?
772
00:55:23,330 --> 00:55:25,620
Please, no problem for Dani Pedrosa
773
00:55:25,750 --> 00:55:30,170
because we want to see him and Lorenzo fight it out for the title.
774
00:55:30,290 --> 00:55:32,130
Will Dani Pedrosa get there? Here he comes.
775
00:55:32,250 --> 00:55:34,800
He's gonna thread his way through. No, he's not!
776
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:36,960
He's starting from the back of the grid.
777
00:55:37,090 --> 00:55:40,300
You cannot believe the misfortune.
778
00:55:43,260 --> 00:55:46,140
It's Lorenzo leading, Rossi in second, Bradl in third.
779
00:55:46,260 --> 00:55:49,890
Dani Pedrosa has everything to do on these first couple of laps.
780
00:55:50,020 --> 00:55:52,350
There was some problem with the front brake.
781
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,730
They managed to get it cleared. It was too late for Pedrosa
782
00:55:54,850 --> 00:55:58,400
to catch the safety car, that's why he had to start from back of the grid.
783
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,020
Lorenzo's cleared off at the front.
784
00:56:01,150 --> 00:56:03,030
They come towards La Quercia.
785
00:56:03,860 --> 00:56:09,660
27 laps in this race. And that's Pedrosa being taken down!
786
00:56:09,780 --> 00:56:12,660
He's been taken down by Hector Barbera.
787
00:56:12,780 --> 00:56:16,950
And that could be the championship right there.
788
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:21,170
I cannot believe he can't get through a season without something...
789
00:56:21,290 --> 00:56:23,420
Ah, it's just awful.
790
00:56:32,630 --> 00:56:35,470
Casey Stoner was back in time for his home race.
791
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,520
They warned me when I came back prematurely,
792
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:41,430
"If you crash and hurt your foot again,
793
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,060
you're probably never gonna walk normally again."
794
00:56:47,100 --> 00:56:51,190
He took the 45th and final victory of his MotoGP career.
795
00:56:53,820 --> 00:56:55,860
But it was Jorge Lorenzo's day.
796
00:56:55,990 --> 00:56:59,860
His second MotoGP world title in three years.
797
00:57:21,510 --> 00:57:24,970
We're gonna watch Lorenzo come across the line and win!
798
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,700
Two weeks after his victory in Australia,
799
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:51,200
Casey Stoner rode his final MotoGP race at Valencia, taking third place.
800
00:57:51,330 --> 00:57:53,870
Thank you, Casey Stoner for what you've given us.
801
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,380
It's the end of an amazing career.
802
00:57:58,750 --> 00:58:01,670
An amazing rider as well in MotoGP.
803
00:58:03,260 --> 00:58:06,170
This left a Honda race machine looking for a rider.
804
00:58:08,630 --> 00:58:13,310
The Honda Racing Corporation had known for a while who that rider would be.
805
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:17,390
Several years ago, I thought
806
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:21,270
maybe he's able to ride a MotoGP machine.
807
00:58:22,810 --> 00:58:27,480
In 2010, Marc Marquez was racing in the junior class
808
00:58:27,610 --> 00:58:29,230
and fighting for the title.
809
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:32,860
No sign of any nerves from anybody on the team or Marc Marquez.
810
00:58:32,990 --> 00:58:35,780
He is one mature 17-year-old rider
811
00:58:35,910 --> 00:58:38,620
and I'm sure he already has a game plan for this race.
812
00:58:38,740 --> 00:58:42,620
Instead of winning, he should be going to school.
813
00:58:42,750 --> 00:58:45,540
On the warm-up lap, the track was completely dry.
814
00:58:45,660 --> 00:58:47,960
Only the last corner was a little bit wet.
815
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:52,130
When I arrived there, I feel normal. I didn't see the water.
816
00:58:52,250 --> 00:58:55,210
See Marquez is going fairly quick.
817
00:58:55,340 --> 00:58:58,050
He's pushing to see how much grip there is... And he's gone!
818
00:58:58,170 --> 00:59:00,260
This could be massive for the championship.
819
00:59:00,380 --> 00:59:02,640
That's huge. And he's broken the front fairing.
820
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:04,390
Can he get the bike back out there?
821
00:59:04,510 --> 00:59:08,270
This could be where the championship gets decided.
822
00:59:08,390 --> 00:59:13,350
A stupid crash. You lose all the work in one year.
823
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,320
He's going in, pointing. He's going back into pit lane.
824
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:20,650
He had a chance of the championship and he'd just thrown it away.
825
00:59:20,780 --> 00:59:23,700
There was some panic there, me and also the team.
826
00:59:23,820 --> 00:59:27,490
He needs the handlebars working on. There's Julià , his father.
827
00:59:27,620 --> 00:59:30,660
They're saying he's got to go out. Telling him to get back out there.
828
00:59:30,780 --> 00:59:33,370
Panic stations at the Ajo Derbi team.
829
00:59:33,490 --> 00:59:38,420
The people that flocked to that motorcycle to help him
830
00:59:38,540 --> 00:59:42,420
get a chance of doing the grand prix,
831
00:59:42,540 --> 00:59:44,380
they saw that he was something special.
832
00:59:44,500 --> 00:59:49,380
In nine minutes, they repaired the bike.
833
00:59:49,510 --> 00:59:53,090
Marquez, he will start from the back of the grid.
834
00:59:53,220 --> 00:59:55,430
Nine laps of the Estoril circuit,
835
00:59:55,550 --> 00:59:58,350
could it determine the outcome of the championship?
836
00:59:58,470 --> 01:00:01,640
Marquez has made a cracking start from the back of the grid.
837
01:00:01,770 --> 01:00:04,060
Already around the outside, he goes through.
838
01:00:04,180 --> 01:00:07,810
He knows he has to make a good start. From seventeenth to fourth.
839
01:00:07,940 --> 01:00:10,980
Marquez is through on Jonas Folger, now on Pol Espargaro.
840
01:00:11,110 --> 01:00:13,650
This is where he's gonna make his move.
841
01:00:15,530 --> 01:00:17,990
One lap to go.
842
01:00:18,110 --> 01:00:21,860
The most important lap in the 17-year-old's life.
843
01:00:21,990 --> 01:00:25,740
There he goes. Up the inside of Nico Terol, Marquez leads the way.
844
01:00:25,870 --> 01:00:27,990
If Marquez wins this and he's in second place...
845
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:30,960
Here he comes into turn three. Nico Terol back into the lead.
846
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:33,620
Wide on exit for Terol. Marquez back in front.
847
01:00:33,750 --> 01:00:36,210
Marquez is very, very fast through the Parabolica.
848
01:00:36,330 --> 01:00:39,550
He's chasing his tenth grand prix victory of the season.
849
01:00:39,670 --> 01:00:42,380
This could be the ride that gets the world title.
850
01:00:42,510 --> 01:00:45,630
Marc Marquez wins here in Portugal!
851
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:50,430
I won the title. We cannot repeat that. It's impossible.
852
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:53,020
That moment, that situation.
853
01:00:53,140 --> 01:00:56,350
Anything that could have happened to Marc Marquez did happen.
854
01:00:56,480 --> 01:01:02,230
He came back, showed everything today that's needed to be a world champion.
855
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:07,320
He'd never won a grand prix before 2010.
856
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:10,530
He won his first grand prix in 2010 midway through the season.
857
01:01:10,660 --> 01:01:13,530
He won a load on the trot and he won the championship.
858
01:01:13,660 --> 01:01:19,790
Grown men cried in that garage. They could not believe it.
859
01:01:19,910 --> 01:01:24,830
Look at Emilio Alzamora. He's aged about ten years in nine laps.
860
01:01:32,630 --> 01:01:36,800
Today belongs to the 17-year-old Spaniard Marc Marquez.
861
01:01:36,930 --> 01:01:38,510
Where will this end?
862
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:43,930
This is the start of a very, very exciting career.
863
01:01:46,230 --> 01:01:51,400
Marquez moved up to Moto2 in 2011 and went on the attack.
864
01:01:52,330 --> 01:01:56,130
He did everything all the great riders before him had done, only more.
865
01:01:57,340 --> 01:02:00,380
He crashed out of the first three races,
866
01:02:00,510 --> 01:02:02,630
then won seven of the next ten.
867
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:06,430
It's going to be Marc Marquez who wins back to back races.
868
01:02:06,550 --> 01:02:10,060
He was leading the Moto2 championship with three races to go.
869
01:02:11,390 --> 01:02:15,680
His star was rising faster than Rossi, Lorenzo and Stoner's before him.
870
01:02:15,810 --> 01:02:19,850
Only Pedrosa had won the intermediate class at his first attempt.
871
01:02:21,310 --> 01:02:24,940
Marquez's determination to push the limits of his bike and tires,
872
01:02:25,070 --> 01:02:29,070
to find ways to go even faster, saw him running at race pace
873
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:31,780
every second that he could in the practice sessions.
874
01:02:33,030 --> 01:02:35,450
At the end of practice before the Australian race,
875
01:02:35,580 --> 01:02:38,370
after the flag had come out to end the session,
876
01:02:38,490 --> 01:02:41,000
and when the other riders were slowing down,
877
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,750
Marquez was still going flat out.
878
01:03:05,770 --> 01:03:08,980
He was sent to the back of the grid in punishment.
879
01:03:09,110 --> 01:03:10,690
It didn't make much difference.
880
01:03:10,820 --> 01:03:12,820
Watching Marquez from the back.
881
01:03:12,940 --> 01:03:15,110
He's flown up the middle of that field.
882
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:18,610
So it hasn't mattered one bit, has it really?
883
01:03:18,740 --> 01:03:23,080
Who will be in third place? It's gonna be Marc Marquez in third place.
884
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:27,000
Starting from the back of the grid. He's ridden through to third place.
885
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:32,920
Marquez is a very, very happy 18-year-old.
886
01:03:35,290 --> 01:03:38,760
A week later, at the penultimate race in Malaysia,
887
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:41,670
Marquez crashed hard in practice.
888
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:53,180
The blow to his head damaged a branch of the optic nerve.
889
01:03:53,310 --> 01:03:54,890
Mark could see like this,
890
01:03:55,020 --> 01:03:57,690
it was when he did this that there was a problem.
891
01:03:57,810 --> 01:04:03,030
If he can't recover 100%, he cannot do this sport.
892
01:04:03,150 --> 01:04:05,610
Because they're always looking up like this.
893
01:04:05,740 --> 01:04:09,110
It's a frightening injury.
894
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,240
Marquez watched with one eye
895
01:04:12,370 --> 01:04:15,490
as the Moto2 championship slipped away to Stefan Bradl.
896
01:04:15,620 --> 01:04:18,250
I was suffering. He's my son.
897
01:04:18,370 --> 01:04:20,870
They say there may be complications.
898
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:22,870
Marquez ended the year
899
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,380
not knowing if he would ever race again.
900
01:04:26,290 --> 01:04:29,920
Marc is very positive, so are the family and the people around him.
901
01:04:30,050 --> 01:04:33,420
He was the one that handled it best.
902
01:04:33,550 --> 01:04:37,300
He must have had his moments but he never showed it.
903
01:04:37,430 --> 01:04:39,010
It's the kind of person he is.
904
01:04:39,140 --> 01:04:41,100
"Don't worry, give it time, it'll get better."
905
01:04:41,220 --> 01:04:44,350
It was micro surgery.
906
01:04:44,470 --> 01:04:49,270
They changed the angle of the muscle slightly.
907
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,150
Now he sees perfectly. He's cured.
908
01:04:53,060 --> 01:04:56,190
Oh, and they're both running wide. Luthi follows Espergaro.
909
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:58,650
Marc Marquez takes over the front.
910
01:04:58,780 --> 01:05:01,070
Oh! Iannone!
911
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:03,860
There was no way through there, but through he went.
912
01:05:03,990 --> 01:05:08,080
Marquez comes back at him immediately, right across the front of him.
913
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:10,450
That is aggressive, isn't it?
914
01:05:11,950 --> 01:05:13,210
Luthi's gone wide!
915
01:05:13,330 --> 01:05:17,710
They were right next to each other going into that first corner.
916
01:05:19,540 --> 01:05:21,800
What a comeback by Marc Marquez!
917
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:25,420
He wins the opening round of the Moto2 world championship
918
01:05:25,550 --> 01:05:26,880
here in Qatar.
919
01:05:27,010 --> 01:05:32,560
After missing those final three grand prix with that horrible injury.
920
01:05:35,810 --> 01:05:41,360
Oh, and that was Tom Luthi. He's really not happy with Marc Marquez there.
921
01:05:42,860 --> 01:05:48,240
Marquez went on to win nine races and the 2012 Moto2 championship.
922
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:53,570
His season ended the same way it began, with both victory and controversy.
923
01:05:53,700 --> 01:05:56,620
Marc Marquez may have qualified in second place
924
01:05:56,740 --> 01:06:00,000
but he will start from the back row of the grid, the new world champion
925
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:07,130
after an incident in practice on Friday afternoon with him and Simone Corsi.
926
01:06:08,460 --> 01:06:12,510
That was aggressive contact several times
927
01:06:12,630 --> 01:06:14,300
with other riders during practice.
928
01:06:14,430 --> 01:06:16,760
It was a recurrence of a number of things
929
01:06:16,890 --> 01:06:18,800
that had happened during the year.
930
01:06:18,930 --> 01:06:21,560
So that was like an accumulation of penalties.
931
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:25,060
To say, "OK, you cannot ride like this." So he was sent to the back.
932
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:28,060
He's an aggressive rider.
933
01:06:28,190 --> 01:06:30,150
He's been involved in controversy all season.
934
01:06:30,270 --> 01:06:32,230
Speaking to Emilio Alzamora on the grid,
935
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:36,070
there is no remorse there from his team manager, his mentor, Emilio Alzamora.
936
01:06:36,190 --> 01:06:39,780
In his opinion, he can't understand why there was a penalty at all.
937
01:06:39,900 --> 01:06:41,950
If that's what he thinks, you can guarantee
938
01:06:42,070 --> 01:06:44,200
that's what Marc Marquez thinks, as well.
939
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:48,370
Marquez has already made up about ten, eleven positions or so.
940
01:06:48,490 --> 01:06:52,410
And he's tried to weave through heading up towards turn two.
941
01:06:52,540 --> 01:06:56,920
What a first few corners. He's already up to about 13th position there.
942
01:06:57,040 --> 01:06:59,090
It's not gonna be easy from here.
943
01:07:01,460 --> 01:07:05,720
Yeah, this race is far from over, a long way to go.
944
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:09,090
Whoa! Marquez and Aegerter both touched in there.
945
01:07:09,220 --> 01:07:12,760
Wow, they've done amazing to hang on, though. Both of them.
946
01:07:19,190 --> 01:07:25,480
Here he comes. He's not gonna be shy about this one, is he? Wow.
947
01:07:30,070 --> 01:07:33,320
Marc Marquez will win his ninth race of the season!
948
01:07:33,450 --> 01:07:36,290
What a ride by the world champion!
949
01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:40,040
That is one of the performances of the season
950
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:43,710
in any class of grand prix racing.
951
01:07:43,830 --> 01:07:46,170
That's it! That's his time done in the lower classes.
952
01:07:46,290 --> 01:07:49,170
He's with the big boys now. What an apprenticeship.
953
01:07:49,300 --> 01:07:54,380
Welcome to MotoGP, Marc Marquez. The rest of you, be warned.
954
01:07:59,430 --> 01:08:04,100
2013, Rossi returns to Yamaha.
955
01:08:04,230 --> 01:08:06,230
Can he still do it?
956
01:08:06,350 --> 01:08:10,190
34 years old. Two years without a win.
957
01:08:10,310 --> 01:08:13,690
This is his 14th season in the premiere class.
958
01:08:13,820 --> 01:08:17,450
Most riders are at their peak for very few years.
959
01:08:17,570 --> 01:08:21,450
One or two have stayed competitive for a decade or so.
960
01:08:21,570 --> 01:08:26,040
But 14 years in the premiere class and still a winner?
961
01:08:27,330 --> 01:08:30,290
Nobody. Never.
962
01:08:34,330 --> 01:08:39,000
Before the season begins, Honda and Yamaha go testing in Texas.
963
01:08:39,130 --> 01:08:41,300
The structure in any good racing team
964
01:08:41,420 --> 01:08:43,590
is to have young riders come in to put pressure
965
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:46,720
on the older rider and to extend their career.
966
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:50,890
Lorenzo was brought in in 2007 to do exactly what he has done.
967
01:08:51,010 --> 01:08:55,640
To move in and gain experience from the old bull
968
01:08:55,770 --> 01:08:57,060
and then push the old bull out.
969
01:08:57,180 --> 01:08:58,230
That's exactly what he did.
970
01:08:58,350 --> 01:09:03,110
And off we went to Ducati. And here we are back again.
971
01:09:03,230 --> 01:09:06,610
The old bull is not the threat that he once was.
972
01:09:06,730 --> 01:09:10,190
Lorenzo is the world champion last year and 26 years old
973
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:13,860
and still enormously talented. The man's a machine.
974
01:09:17,740 --> 01:09:22,000
I'm surprised by the desire he still has to go racing
975
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:24,620
and to put himself on the line.
976
01:09:26,790 --> 01:09:30,040
Dinner at night, the way he talks about racing,
977
01:09:30,170 --> 01:09:34,420
you can feel the passion is huge for him.
978
01:09:36,300 --> 01:09:39,890
Still I feel a little bit strange when I saw Valentino,
979
01:09:40,010 --> 01:09:42,720
when I saw Lorenzo, when I saw Pedrosa...
980
01:09:42,850 --> 01:09:47,680
Especially with Valentino. But in the end, they are my opponents.
981
01:09:47,810 --> 01:09:51,020
And we need to be stronger, too.
982
01:09:51,150 --> 01:09:54,940
We cannot say "OK, these guys are faster than me."
983
01:10:00,740 --> 01:10:04,240
Testing is the endless quest for more speed.
984
01:10:09,990 --> 01:10:16,630
When you ride, you have an idea to go as fast as possible
985
01:10:16,750 --> 01:10:22,420
and you have to understand the way to set the bike to make this idea true.
986
01:10:23,300 --> 01:10:24,760
Everything is adjustable.
987
01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:28,180
The chassis, the suspension, the electronics.
988
01:10:28,300 --> 01:10:31,140
In the end, all riders are looking for the same adjustment.
989
01:10:31,260 --> 01:10:35,720
That magic click. The one that gives you confidence.
990
01:10:35,850 --> 01:10:39,230
In bikes, the center of gravity is changing all the time
991
01:10:39,350 --> 01:10:40,690
depending on the body.
992
01:10:40,810 --> 01:10:44,480
It's not a fixed center of gravity, weight distribution...
993
01:10:44,610 --> 01:10:46,480
Everything changes in one second.
994
01:10:46,610 --> 01:10:49,280
It's something magic between what the bike can be
995
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,400
and what the rider can do.
996
01:10:52,570 --> 01:10:55,360
Dani Pedrosa is coming off his best year ever.
997
01:10:55,490 --> 01:10:59,120
Seven wins in 2012. More than anybody else.
998
01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:03,160
Not bad for a rider once dismissed as too small at 5'2"
999
01:11:03,290 --> 01:11:05,200
to handle a MotoGP bike.
1000
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:10,420
People I don't think realize that with the body that Dani has
1001
01:11:10,540 --> 01:11:12,580
to ride this bike is a super difficult job.
1002
01:11:12,710 --> 01:11:14,630
Because these bikes are big and heavy.
1003
01:11:14,850 --> 01:11:17,020
The leverage you can do moving on the bike
1004
01:11:17,150 --> 01:11:19,690
with short arms and legs is more difficult.
1005
01:11:19,820 --> 01:11:21,320
When you brake, you cannot move.
1006
01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:24,240
And in the corner it's more difficult to control the bike.
1007
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:29,740
It's not easy being small, to get the grip I'd like to have.
1008
01:11:29,870 --> 01:11:34,540
Less weight, less load on the tire, less grip.
1009
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:39,040
The circuit of the Americas is a new track.
1010
01:11:39,170 --> 01:11:41,540
It's the first time here for everybody.
1011
01:11:41,670 --> 01:11:45,460
At the end of two days testing, the Hondas are on top.
1012
01:11:45,590 --> 01:11:48,090
Marquez just ahead of Pedrosa.
1013
01:11:49,050 --> 01:11:52,510
It's time to go racing. Who's it going to be?
1014
01:11:52,630 --> 01:11:55,600
I believe Dani. Last year, he won seven races.
1015
01:11:55,720 --> 01:12:00,930
The package of Honda's machine, Dani's riding, skill, and the team,
1016
01:12:01,060 --> 01:12:04,350
this package is now very, very strong.
1017
01:12:05,770 --> 01:12:11,230
Marc Marquez has a high level of talent, but he needs more time.
1018
01:12:12,320 --> 01:12:16,400
Lorenzo was third fastest in Texas. Rossi was fifth.
1019
01:12:16,530 --> 01:12:22,410
I don't know if Valentino will be able to win again
1020
01:12:22,530 --> 01:12:25,370
this year or the next one.
1021
01:12:25,500 --> 01:12:28,330
Because he passed two years in another world
1022
01:12:28,460 --> 01:12:31,330
and he lose completely all his information
1023
01:12:31,460 --> 01:12:36,500
from his computer.
1024
01:12:36,630 --> 01:12:40,420
All the information to be fast.
1025
01:12:40,550 --> 01:12:45,140
This year he has to begin again.
1026
01:12:45,260 --> 01:12:50,100
To learn again to go fast. To learn again to win.
1027
01:12:50,220 --> 01:12:54,440
For Valentino, it's the possibility to be happy again.
1028
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:56,270
Yeah, for sure.
1029
01:13:02,820 --> 01:13:07,110
If it all goes well, are you ready to ring the bells?
1030
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:11,370
Don Giuseppe has lubricated the bells.
1031
01:13:11,490 --> 01:13:12,700
Tomorrow we ring them!
1032
01:13:12,830 --> 01:13:14,500
Let's hope so!
1033
01:14:57,510 --> 01:14:59,560
Who's going to finish in second place?
1034
01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:02,270
Is it the return of the doctor in second place? It is!
1035
01:15:02,390 --> 01:15:04,930
Rossi's second! Marquez is third!
1036
01:15:30,540 --> 01:15:35,260
Marc Marquez, can he go a step further and win here in Texas?
1037
01:15:39,970 --> 01:15:41,260
It's very exciting.
1038
01:15:41,390 --> 01:15:42,510
Here comes my son.
1039
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:45,010
Hey, he's in front, it's even more exciting.
1040
01:15:52,900 --> 01:15:55,400
He spends the whole session with his fingers crossed.
1041
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:56,610
The whole session.
1042
01:15:56,730 --> 01:15:58,650
Over the crest for the first time.
1043
01:15:58,770 --> 01:16:01,650
Try holding your fingers crossed for longer than five minutes.
1044
01:16:01,780 --> 01:16:03,650
Marc Marquez now into second place.
1045
01:16:03,780 --> 01:16:06,650
He does it for the whole race. He's scary to watch with.
1046
01:16:06,780 --> 01:16:10,820
Any little movement that Marc will have, he shrieks or makes a sudden movement.
1047
01:16:10,950 --> 01:16:12,620
It scares me more. I can't stand next to him.
1048
01:16:12,740 --> 01:16:14,120
You suffer a lot
1049
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:18,210
but then if everything ends well you feel such joy.
1050
01:16:18,330 --> 01:16:20,620
Here he comes!
1051
01:16:20,750 --> 01:16:25,210
We could be seeing the biggest thing to hit grand prix motorcycle racing
1052
01:16:25,340 --> 01:16:30,340
since Valentino Rossi arrived in the premiere class 13 years ago.
1053
01:16:30,470 --> 01:16:34,510
Rossi will be disappointed in sixth place. We ride with Dani Pedrosa.
1054
01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:38,140
That speck in front of him is his teammate Marc Marquez.
1055
01:16:38,260 --> 01:16:42,730
Oh, Dad's looking on. Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
1056
01:16:42,850 --> 01:16:45,640
Here he comes through turn 19. One more corner to go.
1057
01:16:45,770 --> 01:16:48,690
And the Circuit of the Americas can acclaim Marc Marquez
1058
01:16:48,810 --> 01:16:51,730
through turn 20 he comes.
1059
01:16:51,860 --> 01:16:54,400
Marc Marquez, the youngest ever winner
1060
01:16:54,530 --> 01:17:00,410
of a premiere class grand prix motorcycle race wins in Texas!
1061
01:17:05,490 --> 01:17:08,410
The crowd rise for the new boy.
1062
01:17:11,670 --> 01:17:16,800
And look, Valentino Rossi shakes hands with Marc Marquez.
1063
01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:19,260
And a doff of the cap from the doctor.
1064
01:17:47,070 --> 01:17:50,740
Surely, nobody better to present the birthday cake to him
1065
01:17:50,870 --> 01:17:52,660
than his mom, Maria.
1066
01:17:52,790 --> 01:17:56,460
Lorenzo, happy birthday! 26 years old today.
1067
01:17:59,380 --> 01:18:02,000
Lorenzo's 26th birthday celebrations
1068
01:18:02,130 --> 01:18:05,300
included the honor of having the final corner at Jerez,
1069
01:18:05,420 --> 01:18:09,630
the scene of many last lap clashes, named after him.
1070
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:22,310
Marc Marquez is going to have a dig at Jorge Lorenzo.
1071
01:18:22,440 --> 01:18:24,980
Whoa, Marquez, he was forced to pick the bike up there.
1072
01:18:25,110 --> 01:18:26,780
That could've been both of them.
1073
01:18:26,900 --> 01:18:31,450
In 2013, Race Direction introduced a new penalty system
1074
01:18:31,570 --> 01:18:34,160
modeled on the driving license,
1075
01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:36,410
with points imposed for dangerous riding.
1076
01:18:36,530 --> 01:18:39,660
Whoa, Marquez again! He's so close to the rear.
1077
01:18:39,790 --> 01:18:41,950
There's inches separating their tires.
1078
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:44,580
Marc Marquez made us think about a point system
1079
01:18:44,710 --> 01:18:48,130
because he was very close to the limit so many times
1080
01:18:48,250 --> 01:18:50,750
that we needed a way of accounting for that.
1081
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:52,880
How many times have we told you to take it easy?
1082
01:18:53,010 --> 01:18:56,340
It's just gonna get worse and worse. Marquez again!
1083
01:18:56,470 --> 01:18:58,840
He was up in the air fishtailing all over the place!
1084
01:18:58,970 --> 01:19:00,760
He's sideways coming into the corner.
1085
01:19:00,890 --> 01:19:03,970
Modeled on the driving license, everyone understands it.
1086
01:19:04,100 --> 01:19:05,680
We just formalized the warning.
1087
01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:09,480
So instead of just a verbal warning, it now becomes a point.
1088
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:13,480
You add up points and you get to four and you have to start at the back.
1089
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:15,690
So is there any way through for Marquez?
1090
01:19:15,810 --> 01:19:18,820
Look at Lorenzo! He gets away beautifully down there.
1091
01:19:18,940 --> 01:19:22,700
Marquez is going to come through and he's going to run it wide.
1092
01:19:22,820 --> 01:19:24,740
Lorenzo goes wide with him.
1093
01:19:24,860 --> 01:19:26,950
Is there another chance at the final corner?
1094
01:19:27,070 --> 01:19:30,700
Can he do Lorenzo at Lorenzo Corner?
1095
01:19:30,830 --> 01:19:33,910
Pedrosa leads. Is there any way through for Marquez?
1096
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:35,580
He's going to have a go, you know.
1097
01:19:35,710 --> 01:19:40,330
They collide! They've collided! How many times have we seen it?
1098
01:19:40,460 --> 01:19:43,800
Marquez has done it! Oh, in that final corner!
1099
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:47,050
It's Pedrosa who's gonna come across the line from Marquez!
1100
01:19:47,170 --> 01:19:49,180
Lorenzo is gonna be furious!
1101
01:19:49,300 --> 01:19:53,300
- That's Lorenzo's corner. - Oh, yeah? I didn't think that.
1102
01:19:53,430 --> 01:19:54,760
Have you spoken to him?
1103
01:19:54,890 --> 01:20:00,640
I tried but he doesn't want to. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for him.
1104
01:20:00,770 --> 01:20:04,020
But I know that he can be angry.
1105
01:20:06,230 --> 01:20:08,730
The wag of the finger from Jorge Lorenzo.
1106
01:20:08,860 --> 01:20:11,690
Had that incident occurred earlier in the race,
1107
01:20:11,820 --> 01:20:13,530
we wouldn't have been so lenient.
1108
01:20:13,650 --> 01:20:17,370
But the last corner, the last lap and Lorenzo left a significant gap
1109
01:20:17,490 --> 01:20:20,990
that any rider in his right mind would attempt to go through.
1110
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:23,290
Last corner.
1111
01:20:25,540 --> 01:20:27,330
Two great champions.
1112
01:20:27,460 --> 01:20:30,210
The guy behind tries to go in front
1113
01:20:30,330 --> 01:20:33,050
and the guy in front doesn't want to arrive behind.
1114
01:20:33,170 --> 01:20:34,710
It happens like this.
1115
01:20:34,840 --> 01:20:38,470
It is also the good things of racing.
1116
01:20:38,590 --> 01:20:43,470
And I'm very upset that I wasn't fast enough
1117
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:44,930
to go with Marc.
1118
01:20:45,050 --> 01:20:48,520
and to be in the last corner together with Marc and Jorge
1119
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:51,560
because maybe it is also more funny.
1120
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:04,820
What Marc went through in the first five races
1121
01:21:04,950 --> 01:21:06,740
only he knows.
1122
01:21:09,580 --> 01:21:16,290
Until he got to grips with the power and had some experiences with the bike,
1123
01:21:16,420 --> 01:21:19,960
he was taking enormous risks every session.
1124
01:21:20,090 --> 01:21:25,220
Every practice, every race, it was just, "Let's see what happens."
1125
01:21:25,340 --> 01:21:29,180
Every weekend I'd go out on Friday for the first lap at the limit,
1126
01:21:29,300 --> 01:21:32,180
and I'd finish the last corner on Sunday at the limit.
1127
01:21:32,300 --> 01:21:38,230
Every session was like, "Let's see if I fall off or if I can do it."
1128
01:22:06,550 --> 01:22:09,840
As soon as the camera panned to him, we could see he was crawling.
1129
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:14,220
There wasn't ever that moment of heart-stopping "Is he OK?"
1130
01:22:16,510 --> 01:22:19,010
To see him moving immediately even though the visor was off,
1131
01:22:19,140 --> 01:22:22,100
that was a bit of a God-send, to be honest.
1132
01:22:23,480 --> 01:22:27,230
My feelings were with his mum and father who we were with at the medical center.
1133
01:22:27,350 --> 01:22:30,440
We didn't know how bad his face was. What had happened to his head.
1134
01:22:30,560 --> 01:22:35,440
We could see the visor was off. They must have nerves of steel, those two.
1135
01:22:35,570 --> 01:22:36,990
I get nervous.
1136
01:22:37,110 --> 01:22:40,950
But I tell myself I must stay calm
1137
01:22:41,070 --> 01:22:42,870
because in the end you can't fix anything.
1138
01:22:42,990 --> 01:22:45,700
If you get worked up, what are you going to do?
1139
01:22:45,830 --> 01:22:50,210
You can't fix anything. You can't help your son if you get nervous.
1140
01:22:53,210 --> 01:22:56,380
On Friday evening he was worried because his face was all swollen.
1141
01:22:56,500 --> 01:22:59,550
He was icing it. He said, "Mum, how am I going to look?"
1142
01:23:00,590 --> 01:23:04,630
I brake at the same point. But just a little bit more aggressive.
1143
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:08,720
The front wheel was locking, pushed me to the grass and when I was there,
1144
01:23:08,850 --> 01:23:12,100
I saw the wall, I was going directly to the wall
1145
01:23:12,220 --> 01:23:14,390
and I just jumped off the bike.
1146
01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:16,440
It was better like that.
1147
01:23:16,560 --> 01:23:18,400
At which speed did you lose the front?
1148
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:22,150
When I lost the front, 338km/h.
1149
01:23:22,270 --> 01:23:25,860
Then when I crashed, 300km/h.
1150
01:23:26,780 --> 01:23:30,070
This now looks not so good,
1151
01:23:30,300 --> 01:23:33,800
but yesterday it was much worse.
1152
01:23:35,050 --> 01:23:36,970
He was very lucky there, very lucky.
1153
01:23:37,090 --> 01:23:40,260
Yeah. Very, very, very, very, very lucky.
1154
01:23:40,390 --> 01:23:43,600
Because it can be a lot worse.
1155
01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:47,480
But in the end you say, "We were lucky. Nothing happened."
1156
01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:51,690
Just a shock, on we go back to work.
1157
01:23:51,810 --> 01:23:54,360
Round five of the MotoGP World Championship
1158
01:23:54,480 --> 01:23:57,190
is about to get underway here in Magello.
1159
01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:00,820
Marquez was certain to ride.
1160
01:24:00,950 --> 01:24:05,370
He never considered it would be too difficult.
1161
01:24:05,490 --> 01:24:08,330
He had a lot of bruising and a fractured shoulder
1162
01:24:08,450 --> 01:24:12,540
but he quickly put the crash out of his mind
1163
01:24:12,670 --> 01:24:14,170
and he rode a great race.
1164
01:24:18,710 --> 01:24:21,840
To be honest, I worry about him.
1165
01:24:21,970 --> 01:24:22,970
He's very young.
1166
01:24:23,090 --> 01:24:26,220
And when you are young, when you are 20, you don't see the risk.
1167
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:30,720
And I was completely the same as him.
1168
01:24:30,850 --> 01:24:32,810
So I understand him.
1169
01:24:32,930 --> 01:24:37,230
You have this hunger and this ambition.
1170
01:24:37,350 --> 01:24:42,900
And I can do it. I can win the championship in my first year.
1171
01:24:43,030 --> 01:24:47,240
But anyway, every rider's different.
1172
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:51,160
You have to respect the mentality of the riders.
1173
01:24:51,280 --> 01:24:58,000
And this mentality will give him probably a lot of crashes in the future.
1174
01:24:58,120 --> 01:25:00,500
But also will give him very good results.
1175
01:25:00,620 --> 01:25:03,710
Until he finally understands
1176
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:08,050
or perceives a little bit more this kind of risk.
1177
01:25:11,430 --> 01:25:14,890
And that is Dani Pedrosa who's gone down!
1178
01:25:15,010 --> 01:25:19,720
No, it's Marc Marquez who's gone from second place.
1179
01:25:19,850 --> 01:25:24,850
The important thing is for Marquez to do as Lorenzo says.
1180
01:25:24,980 --> 01:25:28,570
With crashes and injuries, you gain the kind of experience
1181
01:25:28,690 --> 01:25:32,650
which led Lorenzo to focus and become who he is today.
1182
01:25:32,780 --> 01:25:37,570
He who plays chess with danger, with risk, with death,
1183
01:25:37,700 --> 01:25:44,710
is always a person with the capacity to endure injuries.
1184
01:25:44,830 --> 01:25:49,960
Your human limits, the fact of your being mortal,
1185
01:25:50,090 --> 01:25:53,800
helps you to climb the enchanted mountain of your dreams.
1186
01:25:54,710 --> 01:25:57,630
Jorge Lorenzo has done the business. And look at that!
1187
01:25:57,760 --> 01:26:01,140
That's why he is number one. That's why he's world champion.
1188
01:26:01,260 --> 01:26:04,560
He's back with a vengeance. Second place is Dani Pedrosa.
1189
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:07,640
Another podium finish for Cal Crutchlow.
1190
01:26:09,310 --> 01:26:13,310
Lorenzo, Pedrosa, Crutchlow.
1191
01:26:13,440 --> 01:26:16,570
Two Spaniards and an Englishman.
1192
01:26:16,690 --> 01:26:19,360
Where's the Italian? The King of Mugello.
1193
01:26:19,490 --> 01:26:24,530
Seven-times winner here. Where is Valentino Rossi?
1194
01:28:02,250 --> 01:28:04,800
I'm lucky because I'm OK because it was a bad crash.
1195
01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:07,380
When Bautista hit me on my foot,
1196
01:28:07,510 --> 01:28:11,130
And I lose the control of the bike and I go to the wall.
1197
01:28:11,260 --> 01:28:13,260
And, "Fuck", I say.
1198
01:28:13,390 --> 01:28:17,060
I was OK, because I put the bike in front of me.
1199
01:28:17,180 --> 01:28:21,980
But the impact was high. Yeah, bad.
1200
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:45,830
The good thing is that I didn't get hurt.
1201
01:28:45,960 --> 01:28:49,290
We'll try again in Barcelona in two weeks.
1202
01:28:53,300 --> 01:28:55,800
I could have had a good race, I could have been on the podium.
1203
01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:59,430
Thank you, everybody.
1204
01:29:00,510 --> 01:29:02,550
Nine-times world champion.
1205
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:07,020
Valentino Rossi!
1206
01:29:14,860 --> 01:29:18,110
Jorge Lorenzo won again in Catalunya.
1207
01:29:18,230 --> 01:29:20,990
Pedrosa was second ahead of Marquez.
1208
01:29:21,110 --> 01:29:22,570
Rossi was fourth.
1209
01:29:22,700 --> 01:29:25,360
He hadn't been on the podium since the first race.
1210
01:29:26,490 --> 01:29:29,030
Dani Pedrosa was leading the championship.
1211
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:32,040
He'd finished first or second at the last five races.
1212
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:36,750
If you check the riding style of the guys that are in front,
1213
01:29:36,870 --> 01:29:40,080
it's a little different from what it used to be before.
1214
01:29:40,210 --> 01:29:42,590
The rider is much, much, much, much lower.
1215
01:29:42,710 --> 01:29:44,960
And the bike stays much more up in the corner.
1216
01:29:45,090 --> 01:29:48,300
If you come from another era, where the bikes were different
1217
01:29:48,420 --> 01:29:50,970
the riding was different and the tires were different,
1218
01:29:51,090 --> 01:29:53,890
you have to change your riding style and that's not so easy.
1219
01:29:54,010 --> 01:29:55,760
Marquez has it down to a tee.
1220
01:29:55,890 --> 01:29:59,600
He hangs off the bike so far. Lorenzo as well.
1221
01:30:00,810 --> 01:30:04,270
And I don't know if it be the way...
1222
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:06,400
tire development or chassis
1223
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:07,810
or how things have gone,
1224
01:30:07,940 --> 01:30:09,400
but the only way to get it to turn
1225
01:30:09,520 --> 01:30:12,480
is basically to drag your elbow on the ground.
1226
01:30:12,610 --> 01:30:17,320
I have also a lot of bad memories from the two years before.
1227
01:30:17,450 --> 01:30:24,410
And I need the time for recreate the same feeling with the M1.
1228
01:30:25,910 --> 01:30:29,420
In a sport career, there is a moment which is magic.
1229
01:30:29,540 --> 01:30:32,750
Everything goes well around you.
1230
01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:36,260
When it goes by, it's very hard to get back the same thing,
1231
01:30:36,380 --> 01:30:38,050
because you are not the same guy.
1232
01:30:38,170 --> 01:30:42,220
These new guys are coming and pushing.
1233
01:30:43,090 --> 01:30:47,350
I've analyzed Rossi and he's trying harder than ever.
1234
01:30:47,470 --> 01:30:50,100
He's changed his riding style completely.
1235
01:30:50,220 --> 01:30:54,730
This is Rossi when he started in MotoGP.
1236
01:30:54,850 --> 01:30:59,730
This riding style dates from the Eighties.
1237
01:30:59,860 --> 01:31:03,570
He's moved his butt, but he's holding his head up.
1238
01:31:05,570 --> 01:31:08,410
This is Valentino Rossi now.
1239
01:31:08,530 --> 01:31:10,780
His head is a long way off the bike.
1240
01:31:10,910 --> 01:31:14,200
His spinal column makes a V with the bike.
1241
01:31:14,330 --> 01:31:19,790
He's adapted to the new riding style, which the young riders are using,
1242
01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:23,090
but maybe he hasn't yet understood this style.
1243
01:31:23,210 --> 01:31:26,920
Rossi crashed in testing the day after the Catalan race.
1244
01:31:27,050 --> 01:31:30,550
Storms hit the next tests in Aragon later that week.
1245
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:34,220
Then the sun came out and things got better.
1246
01:31:34,350 --> 01:31:35,890
I'm happy. It's a good test.
1247
01:31:36,010 --> 01:31:40,930
I feel good on the bike. The first feeling is that we make a step.
1248
01:31:41,060 --> 01:31:42,690
Next stop, Holland.
1249
01:31:44,020 --> 01:31:48,150
It's round seven! It's the last Saturday in June.
1250
01:31:48,980 --> 01:31:56,320
I've always had faith. I always expected to see him win again.
1251
01:31:58,780 --> 01:32:02,620
I knew he liked that circuit.
1252
01:32:04,290 --> 01:32:06,000
Lap one about to be completed.
1253
01:32:06,120 --> 01:32:07,870
Here comes Rossi inside Stefan Bradl.
1254
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:11,540
And Rossi moves into third place. Very aggressively.
1255
01:32:11,670 --> 01:32:18,050
Once again he's making the kind of passes that he used to make.
1256
01:32:18,170 --> 01:32:20,430
Marc Marquez in front of him.
1257
01:32:20,550 --> 01:32:22,140
Both of them know about winning in Assen.
1258
01:32:22,260 --> 01:32:25,720
Marquez has won three times here. Rossi seven.
1259
01:32:25,850 --> 01:32:27,560
He's gone through!
1260
01:32:27,680 --> 01:32:30,560
He made two or three beautiful passes.
1261
01:32:30,680 --> 01:32:36,020
It was so exciting to see how the crowd responded.
1262
01:32:36,150 --> 01:32:40,190
I fight with everybody. I fight with Marc. I fight with Pedrosa.
1263
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:43,900
He was beautiful to watch, elegant like before.
1264
01:32:52,160 --> 01:32:57,790
I'm always a little bit faster in some places. I feel good.
1265
01:32:58,830 --> 01:33:01,420
They cross the line. There'll be three laps to go.
1266
01:33:01,540 --> 01:33:04,670
I waited until the last three laps,
1267
01:33:04,800 --> 01:33:09,340
then I went and opened the door to the bell tower
1268
01:33:09,470 --> 01:33:11,220
and turned on the lights.
1269
01:33:11,340 --> 01:33:14,470
Then I hurried back to see the end.
1270
01:33:14,600 --> 01:33:19,730
He is chasing his 106th Grand Prix victory.
1271
01:33:19,850 --> 01:33:23,980
He hasn't won a Grand Prix for over two and a half years.
1272
01:33:24,100 --> 01:33:26,820
He's half a lap away.
1273
01:33:27,730 --> 01:33:29,440
They cannot believe it.
1274
01:33:29,570 --> 01:33:32,950
They cannot watch back at Valentino Rossi's garage.
1275
01:33:43,410 --> 01:33:47,040
Valentino Rossi wins here in Assen!
1276
01:34:06,060 --> 01:34:10,480
We did wonder if we would ever see him win a grand prix again.
1277
01:34:10,610 --> 01:34:14,980
When he won the last race in Malaysia, it was his 46th win with Yamaha.
1278
01:34:15,110 --> 01:34:20,320
And now, after not winning for 46 races, he has won again.
1279
01:34:20,450 --> 01:34:26,410
So 46 follows us through good times and bad.
1280
01:34:41,630 --> 01:34:47,510
I cannot believe. It was a long, long time from Sepang in 2010.
1281
01:34:47,640 --> 01:34:53,690
In these years, I make to me also this question.
1282
01:34:53,810 --> 01:34:56,560
I can come back on the first position or not?
1283
01:34:56,690 --> 01:34:59,690
It was a tough period.
1284
01:35:11,740 --> 01:35:15,250
The bells are automatic.
1285
01:35:15,370 --> 01:35:19,080
I went out and forgot about them.
1286
01:35:19,210 --> 01:35:22,880
I left them ringing and went to the bar.
1287
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:25,590
We had a bit of a party.
1288
01:35:30,510 --> 01:35:33,970
For a long time, a very long time,
1289
01:35:34,100 --> 01:35:36,770
he left them ringing and ringing and ringing.
1290
01:35:44,150 --> 01:35:48,280
And Jorge Lorenzo, he had an incredible weekend.
1291
01:35:49,610 --> 01:35:52,450
In Assen from the beginning I felt even better
1292
01:35:52,570 --> 01:35:55,370
than in Mugello and Montmelo.
1293
01:35:55,490 --> 01:35:59,450
These two victories give me too much confidence.
1294
01:35:59,580 --> 01:36:03,710
I was overconfident. That was my mistake.
1295
01:36:07,500 --> 01:36:12,840
The corner I crashed, I entered like I was on the dry. 250km/h.
1296
01:36:13,590 --> 01:36:16,720
Jorge's accident in Assen was about four seconds.
1297
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:19,180
One of the longest accidents we've seen.
1298
01:36:25,180 --> 01:36:27,560
The first impact was with the elbow.
1299
01:36:27,690 --> 01:36:30,650
That transferred energy into the shoulder.
1300
01:36:30,770 --> 01:36:33,190
That caused the crack in the collarbone.
1301
01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:36,360
I was thinking that I would lose the championship,
1302
01:36:36,480 --> 01:36:37,820
I lose two or three races.
1303
01:36:37,940 --> 01:36:41,490
Every time I move just one centimeter, I felt so much pain.
1304
01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:44,950
I wanted to get operated as soon as possible.
1305
01:36:45,180 --> 01:36:49,720
I couldn't wait for even one night because the pain was so high.
1306
01:36:49,850 --> 01:36:53,060
So we went to the hospital close to Assen.
1307
01:36:53,180 --> 01:36:58,190
I informed Jorge that if you operate tonight,
1308
01:36:58,310 --> 01:37:01,860
you can do push-ups tomorrow and we can try to ride on the warm-up.
1309
01:37:01,980 --> 01:37:04,570
And to see how it feels, step by step.
1310
01:37:04,690 --> 01:37:06,650
He was, "It's impossible, Wilco."
1311
01:37:06,780 --> 01:37:10,820
I said, "I've had my collarbone broken with a plate on it."
1312
01:37:10,950 --> 01:37:11,950
You know, it's not a joint.
1313
01:37:12,070 --> 01:37:14,450
A collarbone is something fixed.
1314
01:37:14,580 --> 01:37:16,410
And as soon as you have the plate on it,
1315
01:37:16,540 --> 01:37:20,160
if you have the support from the collarbone you can ride a bike.
1316
01:37:20,290 --> 01:37:22,580
Finally, after four or five hours,
1317
01:37:22,710 --> 01:37:27,210
we decided to rent a private plane
1318
01:37:27,340 --> 01:37:28,500
and go to Barcelona.
1319
01:37:28,630 --> 01:37:32,510
And in one hour and a half I was getting operated.
1320
01:37:32,630 --> 01:37:37,470
When I wake up after the operation, I was feeling much better.
1321
01:37:37,590 --> 01:37:42,140
Much less pain. And we started to think about coming back.
1322
01:37:42,260 --> 01:37:46,770
Soon as we arrived back in Assen, he said,
1323
01:37:46,890 --> 01:37:51,770
"If I get green light from the doctor tomorrow morning, we try."
1324
01:37:51,900 --> 01:37:54,770
It's the medical director at each circuit who decides.
1325
01:37:54,900 --> 01:37:57,400
I personally advised him not to race.
1326
01:37:57,530 --> 01:38:03,240
He said "If I lose ten points, it could cost me the championship."
1327
01:38:04,870 --> 01:38:08,580
There was a kind of euphoria in him,
1328
01:38:08,700 --> 01:38:14,170
which he communicated to everybody who saw him race.
1329
01:38:14,290 --> 01:38:18,170
We prepared him from a medical point of view.
1330
01:38:18,290 --> 01:38:21,300
A few painkillers.
1331
01:38:21,420 --> 01:38:26,430
But making possible this unimaginable thing,
1332
01:38:26,550 --> 01:38:28,970
that was all down to Lorenzo's heart.
1333
01:38:30,390 --> 01:38:36,900
They told me also if I crash again, my career can be over.
1334
01:38:37,020 --> 01:38:40,110
So they scared me a little bit.
1335
01:38:40,230 --> 01:38:44,150
He felt quite OK, because he was very fit before the crash
1336
01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:46,150
and I think that helped him a lot.
1337
01:38:50,070 --> 01:38:54,660
At a certain point in their lives, they find the strength,
1338
01:38:54,780 --> 01:38:56,450
the will,
1339
01:38:56,580 --> 01:39:00,120
the strong desire within them
1340
01:39:00,250 --> 01:39:02,460
to achieve something impossible.
1341
01:39:03,960 --> 01:39:09,920
And so there is something mythological about their lives.
1342
01:39:10,050 --> 01:39:11,840
He's now into fifth place.
1343
01:39:11,970 --> 01:39:15,930
Crutchlow runs a little bit wide. Is Lorenzo gonna go through?
1344
01:39:16,050 --> 01:39:18,220
He doesn't need any invitation whatsoever.
1345
01:39:18,350 --> 01:39:20,560
We ride with Jorge Lorenzo!
1346
01:39:20,680 --> 01:39:22,060
He's closing up now on Marc Marquez.
1347
01:39:22,180 --> 01:39:24,140
I was catching the front group,
1348
01:39:24,270 --> 01:39:26,180
Dani, Valentino and Marc.
1349
01:39:26,310 --> 01:39:30,690
I couldn't believe I was doing this 36 hours after my operation.
1350
01:39:30,810 --> 01:39:35,030
Fourteen and a half laps to go. Lorenzo beginning to slow.
1351
01:39:56,800 --> 01:40:01,630
It was very emotional, especially after I finished the race.
1352
01:40:01,760 --> 01:40:05,220
After knowing what you did.
1353
01:40:06,180 --> 01:40:08,680
I was crying inside my helmet,
1354
01:40:08,810 --> 01:40:11,560
because of the pain I felt
1355
01:40:11,680 --> 01:40:14,980
during this 36 hours.
1356
01:40:15,100 --> 01:40:20,150
But also crying about the emotion of doing this thing.
1357
01:40:20,270 --> 01:40:22,650
Pedrosa still led the championship.
1358
01:40:22,780 --> 01:40:25,150
But Lorenzo had only lost three points to him.
1359
01:40:42,210 --> 01:40:44,340
I couldn't believe that I crash
1360
01:40:44,460 --> 01:40:49,340
and again I re-injure the same collarbone.
1361
01:40:49,470 --> 01:40:53,180
We change something on the electronic, the behavior of the engine.
1362
01:40:53,300 --> 01:40:56,930
I'm sure that creates this big slide that I had.
1363
01:40:57,060 --> 01:41:00,600
My physical condition was not right to make some experiments.
1364
01:41:00,730 --> 01:41:06,570
So, it was a mistake of me. I felt again too much overconfidence.
1365
01:41:06,690 --> 01:41:07,940
And I repeat the same mistake
1366
01:41:08,070 --> 01:41:11,280
with the bad luck that I impacted the same collarbone.
1367
01:41:12,490 --> 01:41:15,530
Another operation. Another surgery.
1368
01:41:15,660 --> 01:41:18,990
That damaged his condition much more.
1369
01:41:19,120 --> 01:41:21,080
I'm going home.
1370
01:41:21,200 --> 01:41:23,200
Good luck.
1371
01:41:23,330 --> 01:41:27,080
Lorenzo's misfortune was Dani Pedrosa's opportunity.
1372
01:41:27,210 --> 01:41:30,170
Good luck.
1373
01:41:30,290 --> 01:41:31,380
I hope it goes well.
1374
01:41:31,500 --> 01:41:35,710
Jorge crashed on Friday. I had 23 points lead over Marc.
1375
01:41:35,840 --> 01:41:38,260
I had like a highway for the championship.
1376
01:41:43,300 --> 01:41:45,850
Everything can change in one second, you know?
1377
01:41:51,270 --> 01:41:52,650
It's broken.
1378
01:41:54,230 --> 01:41:59,730
Unfortunately it's my way... in my career.
1379
01:42:03,110 --> 01:42:05,240
You have to think also about the past.
1380
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:11,040
Dani now has a lot of problems with his body, bad injuries.
1381
01:42:11,160 --> 01:42:12,500
A lot of difficult recovery,
1382
01:42:12,620 --> 01:42:17,250
so I think that for Dani it's more difficult than for Jorge.
1383
01:42:19,380 --> 01:42:21,340
With Pedrosa and Lorenzo out,
1384
01:42:21,460 --> 01:42:23,550
the championship had a new leader.
1385
01:42:25,380 --> 01:42:28,930
Halfway through the season, the rookie was on top.
1386
01:42:30,890 --> 01:42:33,850
So now I'm leading the world championship.
1387
01:42:33,970 --> 01:42:39,980
If you tell me that on the pre-season, I would say you are crazy.
1388
01:42:40,100 --> 01:42:46,980
Big surprise even for me. But, you know, it's a great moment.
1389
01:42:49,950 --> 01:42:54,820
And I for one enjoy this peaceful moment before.
1390
01:43:09,880 --> 01:43:13,470
The first thing from the doctors was not to ride
1391
01:43:13,590 --> 01:43:16,010
because the fracture is there.
1392
01:43:16,140 --> 01:43:21,890
And it's only 20% of the bone remaining together.
1393
01:43:22,020 --> 01:43:26,100
If I had a crash, immediately, full crack.
1394
01:43:26,230 --> 01:43:30,650
This collarbone is very hard to operate, mine,
1395
01:43:30,770 --> 01:43:35,190
because already many times I had problems here.
1396
01:43:36,070 --> 01:43:37,070
So I take the risk.
1397
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:40,360
I didn't want to race in Laguna, to be honest.
1398
01:43:40,490 --> 01:43:46,750
But when I saw Dani crash, I rethink, I am going to Laguna.
1399
01:43:46,870 --> 01:43:48,290
The national anthem,
1400
01:43:48,410 --> 01:43:51,080
played by 14 time grammy-nominee Joe Satriani.
1401
01:44:40,000 --> 01:44:42,590
Lorenzo extremely wide coming through turn two.
1402
01:44:49,600 --> 01:44:53,890
For me, it was even harder to finish the race than it was in Assen,
1403
01:44:54,020 --> 01:44:56,270
because my physical condition was much worse
1404
01:44:56,390 --> 01:44:58,270
after one month without training.
1405
01:45:02,650 --> 01:45:06,740
So, the sixth place for me was even with more merit.
1406
01:45:10,990 --> 01:45:14,330
One point more I take than him in this race.
1407
01:45:14,450 --> 01:45:17,910
But our main rival was winning.
1408
01:45:18,040 --> 01:45:20,120
He goes around the outside.
1409
01:45:20,250 --> 01:45:21,410
Rossi will try and come back.
1410
01:45:21,540 --> 01:45:25,460
Oh, then Marquez goes through on the inside of The Corkscrew.
1411
01:45:25,580 --> 01:45:28,250
The Valentino Rossi Memorial line.
1412
01:45:28,380 --> 01:45:31,630
He's at the final corner here at Laguna Seca.
1413
01:45:31,760 --> 01:45:36,340
Marc Marquez makes his debut at Laguna Seca with a victory.
1414
01:45:36,470 --> 01:45:38,890
Opens up a bigger lead in the world championship.
1415
01:45:39,010 --> 01:45:41,680
First rider to win here at Laguna Seca on his debut.
1416
01:45:41,810 --> 01:45:45,180
The youngest ever rider to score back-to-back grand prix wins.
1417
01:45:51,690 --> 01:45:53,730
I say this is a fucking bastard.
1418
01:46:04,990 --> 01:46:08,120
While Lorenzo and Pedrosa were handicapped by injury,
1419
01:46:08,250 --> 01:46:13,080
Marquez won four races in a row. He didn't put a foot wrong
1420
01:46:13,210 --> 01:46:15,670
until the morning of the British Grand Prix.
1421
01:46:17,340 --> 01:46:19,170
It was around ten o'clock.
1422
01:46:19,300 --> 01:46:23,010
Cal Crutchlow went down a few hundred yards ahead of Marquez.
1423
01:46:23,130 --> 01:46:26,140
The marshals around the track were waving yellow flags...
1424
01:46:27,680 --> 01:46:30,770
...warning the oncoming riders to slow down.
1425
01:46:31,680 --> 01:46:33,940
Marquez didn't see the flags.
1426
01:46:39,440 --> 01:46:42,150
Fortunately, the marshals saw Marquez.
1427
01:46:49,030 --> 01:46:52,790
He would get two points on his license for irresponsible riding.
1428
01:46:52,910 --> 01:46:56,080
He copped two points for nearly taking out the marshals.
1429
01:46:56,200 --> 01:46:58,160
That was quite a big safety deal.
1430
01:46:58,290 --> 01:47:02,130
Marquez had a more immediate problem. A dislocated shoulder.
1431
01:47:02,250 --> 01:47:04,130
It was dislocated.
1432
01:47:04,250 --> 01:47:07,340
Some ligaments were a little bit damaged.
1433
01:47:07,460 --> 01:47:11,680
The race was at 2:00pm. He had four hours to recover.
1434
01:47:14,340 --> 01:47:17,680
Meanwhile, Jorge Lorenzo was feeling good again.
1435
01:47:17,810 --> 01:47:19,680
I felt stronger than in Brno.
1436
01:47:19,810 --> 01:47:22,810
So on Sunday morning when he crashed in the warm up,
1437
01:47:22,930 --> 01:47:28,940
I knew his confidence and probably his physical condition could be worse.
1438
01:47:29,070 --> 01:47:34,030
So I say, this is my chance to attack and to win this race.
1439
01:47:34,150 --> 01:47:37,450
I knew it before the race that Jorge would push a lot
1440
01:47:37,570 --> 01:47:41,120
in the beginning of the race because he knew I was injured.
1441
01:47:41,240 --> 01:47:42,410
I need to do a good start.
1442
01:47:48,710 --> 01:47:52,790
And it was like, he pushed a lot, but I was able to be behind him.
1443
01:47:52,920 --> 01:47:55,750
Also I know that the end of the race will be harder for me,
1444
01:47:55,880 --> 01:48:00,300
because I feel tired from the shoulder.
1445
01:48:00,430 --> 01:48:03,930
What happened? I started better than him. I passed him.
1446
01:48:04,050 --> 01:48:06,680
But he was in my ass all the race.
1447
01:48:06,810 --> 01:48:12,190
So even injured, he was there. Not giving up.
1448
01:48:12,310 --> 01:48:17,190
I tried to improve my lap time to get away. I couldn't.
1449
01:48:18,400 --> 01:48:19,440
Then he came.
1450
01:48:19,570 --> 01:48:23,820
He passed me in one braking that I knew he was stronger.
1451
01:48:25,780 --> 01:48:28,950
So I tried to study him for half a lap
1452
01:48:29,070 --> 01:48:32,080
and I see the occasion to pass him in the braking point.
1453
01:48:32,200 --> 01:48:35,040
Here he comes! Lorenzo's going to lead.
1454
01:48:35,160 --> 01:48:37,660
He's not going to give an inch to Marquez.
1455
01:48:37,790 --> 01:48:39,710
Lorenzo takes the lead once more.
1456
01:48:39,830 --> 01:48:44,880
And in the last lap I went even faster trying to open the lead up.
1457
01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:48,590
But the problem is that I entered too quick in the chicane
1458
01:48:48,820 --> 01:48:51,940
that I lose the front and then he recovers two tenths.
1459
01:48:52,070 --> 01:48:54,650
And he makes a small mistake, then I catch him.
1460
01:48:54,780 --> 01:48:57,610
So I say he's going to try in the hard braking again.
1461
01:48:57,740 --> 01:49:00,740
So I tried to close the door, but then I brake too hard
1462
01:49:00,870 --> 01:49:04,080
and the rear wheel starts to snake and I was going wide.
1463
01:49:04,200 --> 01:49:05,660
I was able to pass him.
1464
01:49:05,790 --> 01:49:07,660
Marquez dives for the inside line.
1465
01:49:07,790 --> 01:49:10,080
For a moment I thought I finish second.
1466
01:49:10,210 --> 01:49:13,170
Then on that last corner when I changed direction,
1467
01:49:13,290 --> 01:49:16,340
I feel no power, I go a little bit wide.
1468
01:49:16,460 --> 01:49:19,710
I have to try. This is my chance. I have to win this race.
1469
01:49:19,840 --> 01:49:21,760
It's gonna be a drag to the line
1470
01:49:21,880 --> 01:49:23,260
between the Yamaha and the Honda.
1471
01:49:25,590 --> 01:49:29,760
Jorge Lorenzo wins an incredible battle here at Silverstone!
1472
01:49:40,440 --> 01:49:42,980
Lorenzo won the next race in San Marino,
1473
01:49:43,110 --> 01:49:47,780
cutting Marquez's lead to 34 points with five races to go.
1474
01:49:48,990 --> 01:49:53,120
It was Rossi's home race. He was fourth. Again.
1475
01:49:54,950 --> 01:49:58,500
In the second half of the season, he was on and off the podium.
1476
01:49:58,620 --> 01:50:00,580
More off than on.
1477
01:50:00,710 --> 01:50:03,420
Almost there, but not quite.
1478
01:50:03,540 --> 01:50:07,590
What was it? The bike? Or the rider?
1479
01:50:08,510 --> 01:50:13,340
I don't know what's happening inside Valentino right now.
1480
01:50:13,470 --> 01:50:18,310
Because, you know, after two years with the problem we know
1481
01:50:18,430 --> 01:50:21,850
and after the bad story of Marco,
1482
01:50:21,980 --> 01:50:24,940
I don't know what is rolling around his head.
1483
01:50:25,060 --> 01:50:29,190
For that reason, I have more respect for Valentino now.
1484
01:50:29,860 --> 01:50:34,860
I consider him a strong person, not a strong champion. It's different.
1485
01:50:34,990 --> 01:50:39,870
For me, it's not important if he win one more championship.
1486
01:50:39,990 --> 01:50:42,410
I like the story of Valentino Rossi.
1487
01:50:42,540 --> 01:50:45,710
The biggest respect for a guy such as him.
1488
01:50:45,830 --> 01:50:49,880
A question for Vale. Your helmet. What can you say about the new design?
1489
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:53,000
This time we decide to make something more serious.
1490
01:50:53,130 --> 01:50:57,130
Because already quite a long time that Marco is not with us.
1491
01:50:57,260 --> 01:51:04,310
But here is his home racetrack. The circuit is in his name.
1492
01:51:04,430 --> 01:51:09,140
So we decide to remember him. A tribute to remember him.
1493
01:51:09,270 --> 01:51:15,110
We made something for Marco not using the brand, the two red stripes.
1494
01:51:15,230 --> 01:51:18,990
Only a song. Valentino sent me the text.
1495
01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:23,660
And he chose a part of the text.
1496
01:51:23,780 --> 01:51:26,990
And we reproduce it around the helmet.
1497
01:51:27,120 --> 01:51:31,460
Every time I read the text, mamma mia,
1498
01:51:31,580 --> 01:51:34,080
and at the end talking about fear.
1499
01:51:34,210 --> 01:51:35,460
The same fear.
1500
01:51:52,060 --> 01:51:56,390
How I wish, how I wish you were here
1501
01:51:58,690 --> 01:52:04,030
We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl
1502
01:52:04,150 --> 01:52:05,940
Year after year
1503
01:52:07,780 --> 01:52:10,820
Running over the same old ground
1504
01:52:11,740 --> 01:52:16,700
Have we found the same old fears?
1505
01:52:17,870 --> 01:52:20,410
Wish you were here
1506
01:52:25,840 --> 01:52:27,710
It was hard to imagine
1507
01:52:27,840 --> 01:52:30,590
people would miss Marco so much.
1508
01:52:30,710 --> 01:52:34,800
He really has left a deep mark.
1509
01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:40,560
It makes you proud and a little sad.
1510
01:52:42,310 --> 01:52:45,730
People's heroes are the sportsmen that people want to be.
1511
01:52:45,850 --> 01:52:49,480
And people wanted to be Marco Simoncelli.
1512
01:52:49,600 --> 01:52:51,190
Not because he won a MotoGP race.
1513
01:52:51,310 --> 01:52:55,110
But because he was just cool, quirky, different,
1514
01:52:55,230 --> 01:52:59,150
shunned the society of MotoGP, stood his own ground.
1515
01:52:59,280 --> 01:53:00,900
He said, "I'm gonna do it my way."
1516
01:53:01,030 --> 01:53:04,530
But, he's not here and it's just horrible.
1517
01:53:04,660 --> 01:53:08,040
It was a horrible, horrible day.
1518
01:53:13,960 --> 01:53:15,880
Five races to go.
1519
01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:19,250
125 points on the table.
1520
01:53:19,380 --> 01:53:23,010
Pedrosa and Lorenzo were still in with a chance of the title.
1521
01:53:24,130 --> 01:53:26,880
Dani Pedrosa was finally back to full fitness.
1522
01:53:28,220 --> 01:53:29,760
It was his birthday.
1523
01:53:31,010 --> 01:53:35,390
There are five races left. So there is no more time for anything.
1524
01:53:35,520 --> 01:53:38,440
You have to put it all on the table and go for it.
1525
01:53:38,560 --> 01:53:40,350
You have to have some good luck.
1526
01:53:45,270 --> 01:53:48,490
Pedrosa is all over the rear of Marc Marquez now.
1527
01:53:48,610 --> 01:53:51,400
And Pedrosa is through and into second place.
1528
01:53:51,530 --> 01:53:53,490
He's good and determined.
1529
01:53:53,610 --> 01:53:58,200
The strongest we've seen Dani Pedrosa certainly since that crash in Germany.
1530
01:53:59,330 --> 01:54:02,080
This is a race he really has to win.
1531
01:54:02,200 --> 01:54:03,960
Marquez is going to get very close.
1532
01:54:04,080 --> 01:54:06,460
He's going to have to pick the bike up.
1533
01:54:06,580 --> 01:54:10,790
You could see that a mile off. And Pedrosa has gone down!
1534
01:54:10,920 --> 01:54:12,750
Dani Pedrosa has gone!
1535
01:54:12,880 --> 01:54:18,380
Goodbye, world championship 2013 for Dani Pedrosa.
1536
01:54:18,510 --> 01:54:20,760
Pedrosa is hurting.
1537
01:54:20,890 --> 01:54:23,470
He was putting all the pressure on Lorenzo.
1538
01:54:23,600 --> 01:54:28,060
Marquez had to run it wide as well. Did they actually touch?
1539
01:54:28,180 --> 01:54:32,940
I was leaning and I only felt "clack" on my rear tire.
1540
01:54:33,060 --> 01:54:38,530
I thought he'd touched my exhaust pipe. After that, I don't remember much.
1541
01:54:38,650 --> 01:54:41,650
On the rear of the Honda there is a wheel speed sensor,
1542
01:54:41,780 --> 01:54:44,860
which is part of the traction-control system.
1543
01:54:44,990 --> 01:54:48,330
The electronic system contours the power delivery.
1544
01:54:48,450 --> 01:54:51,950
Without it, the bike is unrideable.
1545
01:54:52,080 --> 01:54:55,210
Some part of Marquez's machine hit and severed the cable
1546
01:54:55,330 --> 01:54:57,370
connecting the sensor to the system
1547
01:54:57,500 --> 01:55:00,210
instantly disabling Pedrosa's traction control.
1548
01:55:01,290 --> 01:55:03,590
It was the slightest possible touch.
1549
01:55:03,710 --> 01:55:05,460
But it carried a knockout punch.
1550
01:55:06,670 --> 01:55:09,170
When he opened the throttle at the exit of the corner,
1551
01:55:09,300 --> 01:55:12,640
the engine delivered a massive hit of power to the rear wheel.
1552
01:55:22,480 --> 01:55:25,610
He's done it again. In front of the home crowd.
1553
01:55:25,730 --> 01:55:28,860
He's got one hand now on that world championship trophy.
1554
01:55:28,980 --> 01:55:32,780
Of course he can make mistakes. We've seen mistakes from him today.
1555
01:55:32,900 --> 01:55:35,950
He just seems to be able to ride his luck all the time.
1556
01:55:38,990 --> 01:55:40,830
After the Aragon incident,
1557
01:55:40,950 --> 01:55:44,620
Marquez found himself back in front of Race Direction.
1558
01:55:44,750 --> 01:55:48,920
Another two-point penalty would see him starting the next race from the back.
1559
01:55:49,040 --> 01:55:51,040
Good morning. Hi Marc, how are you?
1560
01:55:51,170 --> 01:55:53,750
- Fine, thanks. - What are you expecting?
1561
01:55:53,880 --> 01:55:55,210
I don't know. We'll see.
1562
01:55:57,130 --> 01:56:00,090
It's a formal hearing. There's four members of race direction.
1563
01:56:00,220 --> 01:56:03,220
We work as a group, the four of us have a hearing,
1564
01:56:03,350 --> 01:56:05,930
the rider gets called in with his team representative.
1565
01:56:06,060 --> 01:56:09,060
We explain what he's there for.
1566
01:56:09,180 --> 01:56:12,390
We listen to both sides of the story and then make a decision.
1567
01:56:13,350 --> 01:56:15,900
For Marc Marquez, we have added one penalty point
1568
01:56:16,020 --> 01:56:21,030
to his total for the 2013 season due to irresponsible riding.
1569
01:56:21,150 --> 01:56:23,740
No rider wants to be told they're doing the wrong thing.
1570
01:56:23,860 --> 01:56:27,200
They always have an opinion that's not the same as ours.
1571
01:56:27,320 --> 01:56:29,870
And he can be quite angry.
1572
01:56:29,990 --> 01:56:31,830
More and more these days
1573
01:56:31,950 --> 01:56:34,870
he understands why we're saying what we're saying.
1574
01:56:35,000 --> 01:56:37,580
Like I said, for me it was a racing incident.
1575
01:56:37,710 --> 01:56:41,080
Just that. It was very bad luck that I hit the cable.
1576
01:56:41,210 --> 01:56:46,380
But if I hadn't hit the cable, nobody would have realized I hit Dani.
1577
01:56:46,510 --> 01:56:51,300
The limit is when one guy puts in danger other guys.
1578
01:56:51,430 --> 01:56:52,680
This is the limit.
1579
01:56:52,800 --> 01:56:55,050
It was a very light touch.
1580
01:56:55,180 --> 01:56:59,390
But fine, they obviously wanted to give me a point.
1581
01:56:59,520 --> 01:57:03,480
And as riders we have to respect that.
1582
01:57:03,600 --> 01:57:06,230
Many of us could be more aggressive.
1583
01:57:06,360 --> 01:57:09,020
And many of us could be touching others like this.
1584
01:57:09,150 --> 01:57:10,860
But we don't do it.
1585
01:57:12,240 --> 01:57:15,450
A lot of people complain, but it's my riding style.
1586
01:57:15,570 --> 01:57:18,160
If I don't ride like that, I cannot be fast.
1587
01:57:18,280 --> 01:57:19,620
Sometimes I try to change.
1588
01:57:19,740 --> 01:57:22,370
I try to be smooth, but in the end if I'm concentrating,
1589
01:57:22,490 --> 01:57:26,370
if I want to push, I need to be like that.
1590
01:57:26,500 --> 01:57:30,080
Dani Pedrosa had the satisfaction of beating Marc Marquez
1591
01:57:30,210 --> 01:57:31,830
in the Malaysian Grand Prix.
1592
01:57:33,080 --> 01:57:35,130
It's a great feeling, this one.
1593
01:57:35,250 --> 01:57:40,800
But Marquez beat Lorenzo for second extending his lead to 43 points.
1594
01:57:41,840 --> 01:57:45,760
He could clinch the world title the following week in Australia.
1595
01:57:49,640 --> 01:57:52,520
Marc Marquez has been black-flagged.
1596
01:57:52,640 --> 01:57:57,310
Honda have made one massive, massive mistake.
1597
01:57:57,440 --> 01:58:00,190
The Phillip Island track had been re-surfaced
1598
01:58:00,310 --> 01:58:02,320
since the last MotoGP race there.
1599
01:58:02,440 --> 01:58:05,480
In the practice sessions, it turned out that the new asphalt
1600
01:58:05,610 --> 01:58:10,030
gave so much grip that the tires couldn't handle more than a few laps.
1601
01:58:10,160 --> 01:58:13,870
The rubber would disintegrate over full race distance.
1602
01:58:14,870 --> 01:58:18,250
Race Direction ordered the teams to make a pit stop during the race
1603
01:58:18,370 --> 01:58:21,920
when the riders would switch to their second bike with fresh tires.
1604
01:58:22,040 --> 01:58:27,380
Any rider completing more than ten laps would be penalized.
1605
01:58:27,500 --> 01:58:29,010
It was a new rule
1606
01:58:29,130 --> 01:58:32,170
and I was very worried that Jorge would miss the board.
1607
01:58:32,300 --> 01:58:36,850
So, I went to Race Direction to ask if he missed the board, what then?
1608
01:58:36,970 --> 01:58:39,680
Black flag, 100%.
1609
01:58:39,810 --> 01:58:42,680
They've got to come in! Marquez has stayed out there!
1610
01:58:42,910 --> 01:58:47,160
Marquez has stayed out on the track! I do not believe this!
1611
01:58:47,290 --> 01:58:50,080
But surely, Marquez has gone a lap too far!
1612
01:58:50,210 --> 01:58:53,000
Marquez's team was looking for an advantage.
1613
01:58:53,130 --> 01:58:57,800
An extra lap with a clear track and a light fuel load could provide that.
1614
01:58:58,880 --> 01:59:02,890
All we know is that part of the team had made a mistake
1615
01:59:03,010 --> 01:59:04,550
on the counting down of the laps.
1616
01:59:04,680 --> 01:59:07,140
A part of the team knew already from, "Hey, ten! He has to come in."
1617
01:59:07,260 --> 01:59:11,140
And part didn't know, they thought, "No, no. It's the end of lap ten."
1618
01:59:11,270 --> 01:59:13,020
So, they were a little bit confused.
1619
01:59:17,480 --> 01:59:20,730
It's embarrassing for us. It was a mistake that was made.
1620
01:59:20,860 --> 01:59:23,940
We take it and move on. I hope it doesn't affect the championship.
1621
01:59:24,070 --> 01:59:27,490
If it does, it'll come back and haunt us and that's the way it is.
1622
01:59:33,660 --> 01:59:36,040
- How many fingers do you see here? - I see ten.
1623
01:59:36,160 --> 01:59:37,910
Then you can work for Repsol Honda.
1624
01:59:38,870 --> 01:59:41,830
Jorge Lorenzo won the Australian Grand Prix
1625
01:59:41,960 --> 01:59:44,250
from Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi.
1626
01:59:44,380 --> 01:59:48,250
There were two races to go. Fifty points on the table.
1627
01:59:48,380 --> 01:59:51,880
Just 18 points between Lorenzo and Marquez.
1628
01:59:53,430 --> 01:59:55,930
Then a typhoon hit Japan the week of the grand prix.
1629
01:59:56,050 --> 02:00:00,060
The weather wiped out practice on Friday and Saturday.
1630
02:00:00,180 --> 02:00:03,770
Everything, practice and the race, happened on Sunday.
1631
02:00:04,600 --> 02:00:08,770
Marquez had a single session to figure out the track on a MotoGP bike.
1632
02:00:08,900 --> 02:00:12,230
And to endure his 15th crash of the season.
1633
02:00:13,480 --> 02:00:16,780
If he were to win the race today and Lorenzo were to be third,
1634
02:00:16,900 --> 02:00:23,240
then he would be the youngest ever world champion in the premiere class.
1635
02:00:23,370 --> 02:00:26,040
Jorge Lorenzo had other ideas.
1636
02:00:26,160 --> 02:00:28,950
He led the race from start to finish.
1637
02:00:29,080 --> 02:00:32,290
Marc Marquez thought, hoped, prayed,
1638
02:00:32,420 --> 02:00:34,290
he'd capture the world title.
1639
02:00:34,420 --> 02:00:37,460
But it's not gonna happen here in Japan.
1640
02:00:37,590 --> 02:00:44,550
A classic ride from the world champion Jorge Lorenzo who wins here in Japan.
1641
02:00:44,680 --> 02:00:47,220
Thirteen points between them.
1642
02:00:47,340 --> 02:00:50,180
It was down to the final race in Valencia.
1643
02:00:56,810 --> 02:01:00,520
Two things had to happen for Jorge Lorenzo to take the title.
1644
02:01:00,650 --> 02:01:02,360
He had to win the race
1645
02:01:02,480 --> 02:01:05,740
and Marc Marquez had to finish fifth or lower.
1646
02:01:06,860 --> 02:01:11,320
All that Marquez needed was a safe run to fourth place or better.
1647
02:01:11,450 --> 02:01:15,450
Lorenzo had a plan. Get to the front and then slow down.
1648
02:01:15,580 --> 02:01:18,000
Make the riders behind bunch up.
1649
02:01:18,120 --> 02:01:22,000
And hope that Marquez tangles with another rider or makes a mistake.
1650
02:01:23,210 --> 02:01:27,380
If another rider got in front of him, Lorenzo would have to retake the lead,
1651
02:01:27,500 --> 02:01:30,670
then repeat the process of slowing down the riders behind him
1652
02:01:30,800 --> 02:01:34,050
and trying to make life hazardous for Marquez.
1653
02:01:34,180 --> 02:01:39,140
It was the first time that I have to be slower to get something.
1654
02:01:41,430 --> 02:01:44,480
A good start from Jorge Lorenzo yet again!
1655
02:01:44,600 --> 02:01:47,400
He just hooked it up really nicely as the light went out.
1656
02:01:47,520 --> 02:01:50,560
And look at that! Pedrosa is past Marquez.
1657
02:01:50,690 --> 02:01:52,940
Lorenzo had to reckon with Dani Pedrosa.
1658
02:01:53,070 --> 02:01:57,110
He could derail the plan by doing what he naturally wanted to do.
1659
02:01:57,240 --> 02:02:01,320
Dani wanted to win the race and wanted to be as fast as possible.
1660
02:02:01,450 --> 02:02:03,490
I tried to move forward
1661
02:02:03,620 --> 02:02:07,620
and every time I make a pass he was ready to pass back.
1662
02:02:08,330 --> 02:02:11,580
Lorenzo fighting back already! Into turn two!
1663
02:02:11,710 --> 02:02:15,630
He forces Pedrosa wide! And retakes the lead!
1664
02:02:17,670 --> 02:02:20,210
I tried to change my passing points,
1665
02:02:20,340 --> 02:02:22,800
so it was harder for him to get back on me.
1666
02:02:22,920 --> 02:02:25,680
But he always finds a way.
1667
02:02:26,130 --> 02:02:28,680
Oh, they almost touch as they come through there.
1668
02:02:28,800 --> 02:02:30,810
Pedrosa pushed wide once more by Lorenzo.
1669
02:02:30,930 --> 02:02:33,430
He just doesn't want to allow the Honda a moment.
1670
02:02:33,560 --> 02:02:36,850
Again, Marquez was so close into the back of Pedrosa there.
1671
02:02:38,020 --> 02:02:41,480
Pedrosa is through once more on Lorenzo, into turn eight.
1672
02:02:41,600 --> 02:02:44,400
And he's actually done it at a place where it's not easy
1673
02:02:44,520 --> 02:02:47,480
for Lorenzo to get straight back.
1674
02:02:47,610 --> 02:02:49,240
What can Lorenzo respond with?
1675
02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:52,820
Here he comes! He almost takes Dani Pedrosa's right leg off
1676
02:02:52,950 --> 02:02:55,450
as he comes through turn eleven.
1677
02:02:55,570 --> 02:02:57,240
He was way too aggressive.
1678
02:02:57,370 --> 02:03:01,830
My leather at the end was more black than white from his wheel.
1679
02:03:01,950 --> 02:03:05,040
Oh, he's gonna force Pedrosa a little bit wide.
1680
02:03:05,160 --> 02:03:06,750
That's not my style.
1681
02:03:06,870 --> 02:03:12,130
I understand that my two actions were close to the limit.
1682
02:03:12,250 --> 02:03:17,170
In these circumstances I felt a little bit like David against Goliath.
1683
02:03:17,300 --> 02:03:23,930
I was trying to beat Goliath doing everything I could do.
1684
02:03:24,970 --> 02:03:27,810
Lorenzo fights back. There's no way through that time.
1685
02:03:27,930 --> 02:03:30,810
There is! He's pushed. He's pushed Dani Pedrosa wide!
1686
02:03:30,940 --> 02:03:33,900
He's pushed him right off the track, as well. He had to do it.
1687
02:03:34,020 --> 02:03:36,360
And now Marquez takes over at the front.
1688
02:03:36,480 --> 02:03:40,990
You had the best view of the battle between Jorge and Dani.
1689
02:03:42,530 --> 02:03:46,660
How many penalty points do you think Jorge deserved with the passes?
1690
02:03:50,080 --> 02:03:54,370
You know, I already said in the past and I will say now,
1691
02:03:54,500 --> 02:03:59,000
we are here for racing, for fighting and the races are like that.
1692
02:03:59,130 --> 02:04:02,040
I tell you, Lorenzo is riding as aggressively
1693
02:04:02,170 --> 02:04:04,590
as I've ever seen him ride. He has to.
1694
02:04:04,710 --> 02:04:07,590
He will try and rough up Marquez now at the front.
1695
02:04:07,720 --> 02:04:10,380
And here he comes! Into turn two this time again.
1696
02:04:10,510 --> 02:04:14,800
He's very strong in there once more. And he takes the lead from Marquez.
1697
02:04:14,930 --> 02:04:17,180
He's gonna have to try and slow things up.
1698
02:04:17,310 --> 02:04:20,850
But the writing was on the wall for Lorenzo.
1699
02:04:20,980 --> 02:04:23,230
The other riders were falling back.
1700
02:04:23,350 --> 02:04:25,610
The other riders, apart from our three,
1701
02:04:25,730 --> 02:04:27,900
they were too slow to stay in the group.
1702
02:04:28,020 --> 02:04:31,480
And when I look behind and I see that they were too far,
1703
02:04:31,610 --> 02:04:34,360
I thought to win this race, to go away, and that's it.
1704
02:04:34,490 --> 02:04:37,280
He's definitely changed the tactics, hasn't he now?
1705
02:04:37,410 --> 02:04:41,450
He's gone from slowing, let's get everybody involved in the party,
1706
02:04:41,580 --> 02:04:44,290
to let's see if you can run at my sort of pace.
1707
02:04:44,410 --> 02:04:48,000
Of course, Marquez doesn't need to be sucked into this.
1708
02:04:48,120 --> 02:04:50,960
It was difficult because something inside me say,
1709
02:04:51,080 --> 02:04:52,710
"You need to fight."
1710
02:04:52,830 --> 02:04:56,710
I understand that it was much more important,
1711
02:04:56,840 --> 02:04:59,970
the championship than one race.
1712
02:05:01,840 --> 02:05:06,930
Number 93 now has four kilometers, 2.5 miles left.
1713
02:05:07,050 --> 02:05:11,430
That was maybe the longest race in my career.
1714
02:05:11,560 --> 02:05:14,350
Last lap I was so careful.
1715
02:05:14,480 --> 02:05:18,060
He's gonna win his debut season in MotoGP.
1716
02:05:20,020 --> 02:05:23,690
But hats off first of all to Jorge Lorenzo.
1717
02:05:23,820 --> 02:05:26,570
Jorge Lorenzo wins his eighth grand prix this season.
1718
02:05:26,700 --> 02:05:29,610
But now we await for the arrival of Marc Marquez!
1719
02:05:29,740 --> 02:05:34,950
He's done it! He's done it! Twenty years old, 266 days!
1720
02:05:35,080 --> 02:05:37,370
The youngest ever winner in the premiere class.
1721
02:05:37,500 --> 02:05:40,290
The first rookie to do so since '78.
1722
02:06:16,030 --> 02:06:18,990
I want to say thanks to Honda. To all my team.
1723
02:06:19,120 --> 02:06:24,330
To all the people who help me. To my family because they are always there.
1724
02:06:24,460 --> 02:06:28,670
I don't know what I can say because I feel so good.
1725
02:06:28,790 --> 02:06:31,550
Behind that smile there is the courage of Marquez.
1726
02:06:31,670 --> 02:06:37,430
The courage of one who says, "I'm here. I'm a kid, but I can win."
1727
02:06:37,550 --> 02:06:41,300
So, Marc did some incredible things.
1728
02:06:41,430 --> 02:06:46,640
I expect he have to do some more mistakes during the first season.
1729
02:06:46,770 --> 02:06:53,360
He has all the potential to become the greatest of all time
1730
02:06:53,480 --> 02:06:56,860
or better than me or win more than me.
1731
02:06:56,980 --> 02:07:00,950
He has great skills and is also very young.
1732
02:07:01,070 --> 02:07:04,160
But now is very early to say.
1733
02:07:04,280 --> 02:07:11,250
It's a long way. But he has 100% of possibility.
1734
02:07:17,340 --> 02:07:20,460
It's as big as it gets, there's nothing bigger.
1735
02:07:20,590 --> 02:07:23,170
He's won the toughest championships in the world.
1736
02:07:23,300 --> 02:07:25,840
He's the fastest rider in the world right now.
1737
02:07:29,390 --> 02:07:35,230
All the riders hope he's already close to his top level.
1738
02:07:35,350 --> 02:07:39,520
Because if he improves a lot from here from now,
1739
02:07:39,650 --> 02:07:42,320
for the other guys, it's a big problem.
1740
02:07:43,530 --> 02:07:45,740
He's the same son as always.
1741
02:07:45,860 --> 02:07:48,610
He might be the champion, but he's the same.
1742
02:07:48,740 --> 02:07:51,070
It's so great.
1743
02:07:51,820 --> 02:07:55,200
That's the lovely thing, the essence of the family.
1744
02:07:55,330 --> 02:07:58,200
At least he hasn't talked about leaving us yet.
1745
02:08:51,210 --> 02:08:54,210
I have been fortunate.
1746
02:08:54,340 --> 02:08:57,260
This is the message.
1747
02:08:57,480 --> 02:09:02,700
In the motorcycle world, anyone who falls, like Lorenzo or Marquez,
1748
02:09:02,820 --> 02:09:04,320
who races with broken bones,
1749
02:09:04,450 --> 02:09:07,160
demonstrates that one can come back from injury
1750
02:09:07,280 --> 02:09:11,330
to continue to breathe the intoxication of a dream.
1751
02:09:11,450 --> 02:09:14,500
It's not so much about reaching a goal,
1752
02:09:14,620 --> 02:09:18,500
it's the challenge, the journey of becoming ourselves in life.
1753
02:09:18,620 --> 02:09:21,380
We must share the scent of victory
1754
02:09:21,500 --> 02:09:25,250
and make those around us happy by our example.
1755
02:09:28,840 --> 02:09:33,510
At one point, I used to think that I'm very unlucky
1756
02:09:33,640 --> 02:09:36,350
if I compare myself to the other riders.
1757
02:09:36,470 --> 02:09:38,140
Much more often to hospital.
1758
02:09:38,270 --> 02:09:42,850
And much more often I have Race Direction problems.
1759
02:09:42,980 --> 02:09:48,520
But, you know, I think now completely different.
1760
02:09:48,650 --> 02:09:52,780
I completely see that I am a very fortunate guy.
1761
02:09:52,900 --> 02:09:55,780
I live every day the dream of my life.
1762
02:09:55,910 --> 02:09:57,870
There is a very high level of competition
1763
02:09:57,990 --> 02:10:01,330
and I'm still there through now eleven years
1764
02:10:01,450 --> 02:10:03,370
and this makes me proud.
1765
02:10:03,490 --> 02:10:07,540
Sure, numbers could be a little better but I'm enjoying it.
1766
02:10:07,660 --> 02:10:11,170
You have to work it out. I think Rossi, for example, he's trying also.
1767
02:10:11,290 --> 02:10:15,420
It will never be the same because in life there is a constant change,
1768
02:10:15,550 --> 02:10:18,510
in you, in the rest, in everything.
1769
02:10:18,630 --> 02:10:21,550
But you have to work out the best
1770
02:10:21,680 --> 02:10:24,470
to find your happiness and the best balance for you.
1771
02:10:24,600 --> 02:10:30,810
When you go home and you are at rest and out of this,
1772
02:10:30,930 --> 02:10:32,440
it's not the number that you get.
1773
02:10:32,560 --> 02:10:37,520
It's the experience you felt when you were doing it.
1774
02:10:39,270 --> 02:10:43,030
My father once told me, when I was 14,
1775
02:10:43,150 --> 02:10:47,280
before I started world championships in 2002, before my debut.
1776
02:10:48,660 --> 02:10:51,280
I crashed in Montmelo.
1777
02:10:51,410 --> 02:10:57,500
So when my dad see me like this, unconscious in the ambulance,
1778
02:10:57,620 --> 02:11:00,040
we went to the hospital.
1779
02:11:00,170 --> 02:11:02,290
He told me,
1780
02:11:02,420 --> 02:11:08,170
"Son, let's stop this shit, because, it's a shit."
1781
02:11:08,300 --> 02:11:12,010
"You know, it isn't worth it."
1782
02:11:12,930 --> 02:11:15,680
But I say... I was crying at this moment.
1783
02:11:15,810 --> 02:11:20,230
I say, "No, no, Dad, I will continue."
1784
02:11:21,850 --> 02:11:25,610
Everybody has his way to interpret racing.
1785
02:11:25,730 --> 02:11:32,360
Some riders do it because they want revenge on their world.
1786
02:11:32,490 --> 02:11:36,740
Some others, it's very important to give the maximum.
1787
02:11:36,870 --> 02:11:38,830
For some others it's for fun,
1788
02:11:38,950 --> 02:11:43,870
others because they like the adrenaline.
1789
02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:47,620
So I think that everybody has his way.
1790
02:11:47,750 --> 02:11:51,040
And all the ways are good. Yeah.
1791
02:11:56,840 --> 02:11:58,260
Was that 100%?
1792
02:11:58,380 --> 02:12:00,510
Yeah. Maybe a little bit more.
1793
02:12:00,640 --> 02:12:02,550
A little bit more, as always.
1794
02:12:08,560 --> 02:12:10,850
We're at Misano, the Marco Simoncelli circuit.
1795
02:12:13,690 --> 02:12:16,070
I talk with Paolo many times.
1796
02:12:16,190 --> 02:12:19,320
Ask him to build a team in the style of Marco Simoncelli.
1797
02:12:19,440 --> 02:12:23,160
Because, he was involved in the racing life of Marco.
1798
02:12:23,280 --> 02:12:25,200
And he was able to take him to the top.
1799
02:12:25,320 --> 02:12:28,410
He has to find a new energy to go ahead.
1800
02:12:28,530 --> 02:12:32,250
Not in the memory of Marco, but in the style, Simoncelli style.
1801
02:12:34,040 --> 02:12:38,170
This is the first year, but they're doing well.
1802
02:12:38,290 --> 02:12:40,920
We'll see what we can do next year.
1803
02:12:41,050 --> 02:12:43,800
I think having the relation with the riders, the two riders,
1804
02:12:43,920 --> 02:12:46,930
if one of the two becomes stronger,
1805
02:12:47,050 --> 02:12:52,430
for sure he can jump on the next category and then jump and jump.
1806
02:12:52,560 --> 02:12:53,850
We will see.
1807
02:12:55,560 --> 02:13:00,560
The circle that was broken in a way now is complete.
1808
02:13:13,070 --> 02:13:17,120
Every Sunday, as night begins to fall on Coriano,
1809
02:13:17,240 --> 02:13:19,200
a flame ignites
1810
02:13:19,330 --> 02:13:25,290
and burns in memory of Marco Simoncelli for 58 seconds.
1811
02:13:36,180 --> 02:13:39,310
Grand prix motorcycle racing is the process
1812
02:13:39,430 --> 02:13:42,140
of turning fire into speed.
1813
02:13:42,270 --> 02:13:45,270
The combustion of fuel and air in the engine
1814
02:13:45,400 --> 02:13:47,940
and the fire in the heart of a rider
1815
02:13:48,060 --> 02:13:50,320
willing to risk everything...
1816
02:13:51,480 --> 02:13:53,150
...to win.
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