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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing China
29 April 2008
After a brief break, MotoGP gets back on track with the Chinese Grand Prix at the state-of-the-art Shanghai International Circuit this weekend. China is one of the newest additions to the MotoGP calendar, having made its debut as recently as 2005, and this year’s event will be just the fourth MotoGP event to be held in Shanghai. No rider has claimed more than one victory in any of the three classes in the three previous visits to China, though Casey Stoner took a 250cc win in 2005 and MotoGP honours in 2007. Stoner’s win last year was the first for a rider on Bridgestone tyres in Shanghai, but Bridgestone has a reasonably strong record at the track with Kawasaki’s Olivier Jacque finishing second in the wet in 2005 and John Hopkins taking fourth place for Suzuki in 2006. Hopkins also took his first ever MotoGP podium in last year’s event finishing third, just six seconds behind Stoner.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Portugal
09 April 2008
It has been just over half a year since the Estoril circuit last played host to a MotoGP world championship event but significant improvements in bike, tyre and riding performances over the winter will make for an even more competitive Portuguese GP this weekend. Anticipating the race to April gives Estoril a spring-time calendar slot for only the second time since its first MotoGP race back in 2000, the last occasion being back in 2005. This year’s event will be the ninth Portuguese GP, a race weekend that has traditionally not been easy for Bridgestone, although Makoto Tamada took pole position and scored a podium finish in 2004, which marked the first European podium result for a rider using Bridgestone tyres.
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Rossi Scores Second In Jerez To Take First Bridgestone Podium
30 March 2008
Valentino Rossi finished this afternoon’s Spanish Grand Prix in second place after a competitive 27-lap race which was the fastest ever GP to be held in Jerez. Dani Pedrosa took victory honours with a race time of 45 minutes 35 seconds, some 18 seconds quicker than last year’s race-winning pace and eight seconds faster than 2005’s record race time. Rossi was the first Yamaha rider past the chequered flag and the best placed rider on Bridgestone tyres this afternoon. His second place result also marks his and Yamaha’s first ever podium result on Bridgestone tyres in only the second grand prix of partnership.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Round 2: Spain
25 March 2008
A thrilling battle for supremacy at the opening race of the 2008 MotoGP season in Qatar just over two weeks’ ago, ultimately won by Bridgestone-shod Ducati rider Casey Stoner, set a highly competitive standard for this year’s championship, which continues this weekend with the second round of the season, the Spanish Grand Prix.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Round 1: Qatar
03 March 2008
It's been 124 days since the curtain fell on the 2007 season in Valencia, MotoGP action resumes in earnest at the Losail International Circuit on Friday as Qatar gets the 18-race 2008 championship underway in style with the first ever MotoGP event to be held under floodlights. This weekend’s race marks the first anniversary of Casey Stoner’s stunning debut victory aboard his Bridgestone-shod Ducati at the Losail track twelve months ago. The impressive win acted as a prelude for a hugely impressive championship-winning season in which the Australian rider tallied ten wins and an impressive string of consecutive top six results on his dominant march to a first MotoGP title for himself, Ducati and Bridgestone.
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Bridgestone 1-2 As Stoner Leads Rossi In Jerez Official Test
18 February 2008
Reigning MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner claimed the fastest time of yesterdays official practice session atthe Circuito de Jerez leading a Bridgestone 1-2 on a damp track. Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi, in his first official MotoGP session since switching to Bridgestone tyres, and completing his first ever laps using Bridgestone wet weather tyres, set the second quickest time, 1.3s behind Stoner’s Ducati. Several other Bridgestone-shod riders frequented the upper reaches of the classification with Kawasaki’s Anthony West in fourth, Honda Gresini’s Shinya Nakano in sixth, Suzuki’s Loris Capirossi in seventh and Alice Team’s Sylvain Guintoliin ninth. The results enabled all six teams supported by Bridgestone to end this first official session of the 2008 season in the top ten.
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Bridgestone MotoGP: Post-Season Testing Debrief
29 November 2007
The final test session of 2007 drew to a close at the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain today after three days of intensive work yielded useful results for Bridgestone ahead of the winter testing break. Many riders have been busy acquainting themselves with new teams, new machinery and, in some cases, new rubber in preparation for next season with notable changes to the line-up of riders using Bridgestone tyres. Marco Melandri has joined Stoner at Ducati Corse, John Hopkins has moved to the Kawasaki Racing Team to partner Anthony West, Loris Capirossi has joined Chris Vermeulen at Rizla Suzuki MotoGP, Sylvain Guintoli and Toni Elias will be team-mates at Pramac d’Antin (to be known as the Alice Team), while Shinya Nakano and Alex de Angelis have joined forces at Honda Gresini.
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Stoner & Hopkins End Bridgestone’s Competitive Season In Style
04 November 2007
2007 MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner ended his title-winning season in style by laying claim to his 14th podium finish of the year with a solid second place in this afternoon’s Valencia GP behind Spanish Honda rider Dani Pedrosa. Departing Suzuki rider John Hopkins rounded out a five-year career at the team with third place, his fourth podium of the 2007 season, which secures him an excellent fourth place in the championship, just two points ahead of Honda Gresini’s Marco Melandri who finished in fourth place this afternoon. Loris Capirossi enjoyed a strong afternoon in his final race for Ducati with fifth place ahead of Chris Vermeulen, whose sixth place rewards Suzuki with third in the team’s classification, just one point adrift of the Repsol Honda squad.
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Bridgestone GP Briefing – Valencia
30 October 2007
The longest MotoGP championship in history comes to an end this weekend as the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Cheste plays host to the Community of Valencia GP, round 18 of the 2007 season. Valencia will mark the one hundredth MotoGP race participation for Bridgestone since their debut in Suzuka 2002. In that time, riders on Bridgestone tyres have accumulated 20 race victories, 20 pole positions, a total of 55 podium finishes and, courtesy of Casey Stoner and Ducati Corse, the first MotoGP world championship title on Bridgestone tyres. Valencia, like the previous race in Sepang, made its debut on the premier class calendar at the end of the last Millennium when Frenchman Regis Laconi took his only premier class victory from pole position.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Australia & Malaysia Debrief
24 October 2007
The final intercontinental races of the 2007 MotoGP season saw recently-crowned champion Casey Stoner take consecutive victories aboard his Bridgestone-shod Ducati, the first in his home grand prix at Phillip Island and the latest in Sepang, which took his season tally to an impressive ten wins in 17 starts. Two other riders using Bridgestone tyres claimed podium results in this latest set of back-to-back races with Stoner’s team-mate and Japanese GP victor Loris Capirossi finishing second in Australia, while Honda Gresini’s Marco Melandri added a third podium to his 2007 collection with an excellent second in Sepang. Competition among bike and tyre manufacturers was close in both rounds but the technical demands of Phillip Island and the uncertainties of a resurfaced circuit in Sepang made life tough for tyre manufacturers in these penultimate events of the year.
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Stoner & Melandri Take Bridgestone 1-2 In Sepang
21 October 2007
Casey Stoner rode his Ducati superbly to victory in this afternoon’s Malaysian Grand Prix to register his tenth win of the season, the twelfth in total by a rider on Bridgestone tyres in 2007. Stoner also claimed the fastest lap of the race, a 2m02.108s, which represented a slight increase over the existing record set by Loris Capirossi in 2006, while the total race time, 43m04.405s, was three seconds quicker than last year’s 990cc race. Marco Melandri scored an equally impressive second position, just 1.7s adrift of Stoner’s race-winning time, to take his fourth podium position of the season and the sixth in total for the Honda Gresini team in their debut season using Bridgestone tyres.
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Bridgestone GP Briefing - Sepang
17 October 2007
MotoGP action returns to Asia this weekend as the Sepang International Circuit plays host to the Malaysian Grand Prix, the penultimate round of this year’s championship, which has been dominated by Casey Stoner and the Bridgestone-equipped Ducati Corse team, who have already secured the 2007 rider, team and constructor titles ahead of this weekend’s event. The Sepang circuit was inaugurated in March 1999 and hosted its first premier class event just one month later, a race which was won by Kenny Roberts Junior on his Suzuki. The venue has remained on the calendar ever since and this year’s event is the ninth Malaysian GP to be held at Sepang. Malaysia’s involvement in premier class motorcycle racing, however, dates back to 1991 when Shah Alam started a run of seven consecutive events.
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Phillip Isaland - Bridgestone GP Briefing
08 October 2007
Phillip Island once again promises exhilarating MotoGP action against a breathtakingly picturesque postcard backdrop this weekend as the uniquely demanding 4.448km track hosts its 13th premier class motorcycle event. Casey Stoner, one of three Bridgestone-shod Australian riders, heads to his home GP as 2007 MotoGP world champion after clinching the crown aboard his Bridgestone-shod Ducati in Japan a fortnight ago. Suzuki’s Chris Vermeulen and Kawasaki’s Anthony West will also be looking to use a home advantage with the rest of the championship still wide open with just three races of the season remaining.
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Bridgestone MotoGP: Japan Debrief
27 September 2007
Ducati’s Loris Capirossi led a 1-2-3 for Bridgestone-equipped riders in the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi last Sunday. Randy de Puniet took his first ever podium on Bridgestone tyres and the first for Kawasaki this season finishing the chaotic race in second place, while Toni Elias finished third for Honda Gresini, his second podium of the season. Capirossi’s win marked the tenth of the 2007 season on Bridgestone tyres and the podium clean sweep took Bridgestone’s podium tally to 27 this season and 51 overall. A sixth place result for Casey Stoner was enough to secure him a debut MotoGP World Championship as he finished ahead of his nearest championship challenger, Valentino Rossi, to take his overall points total to an unbeatable 297. It is the first MotoGP championship scored on Bridgestone tyres in the company’s sixth MotoGP season after 97 races.
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Bridgestone Celebrates Perfect Home Result
23 September 2007
Bridgestone is today celebrating the perfect result in its home grand prix in Motegi with Ducati’s Casey Stoner securing the world championship crown with a sixth placed finish in today’s chaotic Japanese GP, while his team-mate Loris Capriossi led a Bridgestone 1-2-3 with a sensational first victory of the season. Bridgestone riders took all the podium places this afternoon, led by triumphant Capirossi, his third consecutive win in Motegi, and the fourth in a row at the track for a rider on Bridgestone tyres. Randy de Puniet crossed the line in second position to score the first podium of the season for Kawasaki, while Honda Gresini’s Toni Elias took his second podium of the season on Bridgestone tyres with a superb third place.
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Bridgestone GP Briefing
20 September 2007
With its technical centre located in Kodaira on the outskirts of Tokyo, the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi is very much a home event for Bridgestone and one with special memories from recent seasons. Motegi has heralded some of the tyre manufacturer’s most successful results in its short MotoGP history with three wins on Bridgestone tyres in the last three seasons. The company aims to continue this run of race-winning performance in the 2007 Japanese GP this weekend with Bridgestone-shod Ducati rider Casey Stoner leading the riders’ championship with an enviable 76 point lead with just 100 points still available in the four remaining events of this season. Bridgestone will be hoping to use its usual Motegi magic to good effect with all five of its teams this weekend.
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Stoner Takes 11th Podium Of Season In Estoril
17 September 2007
Ducati Corse and Casey Stoner have claimed a well earned podium in Portugal after a thrilling 28-lap race in Estoril this afternoon won by Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi ahead of Honda’s Dani Pedrosa. Stoner’s 16 points for third place see him retain a 76-point lead at the head of the riders’ championship, equivalent to three race victories with just four races of the season remaining. Marco Melandri (Honda Gresini) and John Hopkins (Suzuki) enjoyed a close battle for their fifth and sixth positions respectively. The ten points earned by Hopkins elevate him to fourth in the championship ahead of team-mate Chris Vermeulen while Melandri cements his sixth place.
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Bridgestone Estoril GP Briefing
11 September 2007
Round 14 of this year’s MotoGP championship takes place at the technically demanding Estoril circuit in Portugal this weekend with Bridgestone-shod Ducati rider Casey Stoner leading the riders’ classification with an impressive 85 point margin with just 125 points still up for grabs in the final five events of the season. Portugal was one of the hardest race weekends for Bridgestone last season with Suzuki rider John Hopkins the top Bridgestone-shod rider in sixth position. Bridgestone heads to Estoril in 2007 having seen nine wins on its tyres this season courtesy of Stoner (eight wins) and Suzuki’s Chris Vermeulen (one win) who, along with Hopkins, swept the podium places at the San Marino/Rimini GP less than two weeks ago.
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Bridgestone GP Briefing – San Marino
28 August 2007
Bridgestone Motorsport heads to the Italy’s Adriatic coast this weekend for round 13 of this year’s MotoGP championship, which sees premier class motorcycle racing return to Misano for the first time since 1993. Misano will be the second occasion that MotoGP fever hits Italy this season after the thrills of Mugello less than three months ago. Bridgestone will be hoping that its MotoGP debut at Misano will help extend an unbroken run of Italian podium success which has seen Ducati’s Loris Capirossi take third and second in Mugello in 2005 and 2006 respectively and, more recently, Alex Barros claim an excellent third place for Pramac d’Antin at the same track back in June. After another awe-inspiring performance in Brno two weeks’ ago, Bridgestone-shod Ducati Corse rider Casey Stoner now leads the riders’ championship by sixty points.
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Bridgestone GP Briefing For Laguna Seca
18 July 2007
The final race before MotoGP’s traditional summer break takes Bridgestone Motorsport to Laguna Seca for the United States GP, the eleventh round of this year’s championship. Ducati’s Casey Stoner extended his lead of the riders’ classification by eleven points after a determined ride to fifth place in last weekend’s German GP, a race which saw his team-mate Loris Capirossi take the fifteenth podium of the season on Bridgestone tyres. After last season’s Californian heatwave saw track temperatures soar to sixty degrees Celsius, the Laguna Seca track has again been resurfaced ahead of this year’s event.
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