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Honda Rider Riders Rerady At The British Grand Prix
24 June 2007
Donington Park is heaving this weekend with the buzz that is MotoGP. With a rain soaked start to Friday's practice sessions and a sunny day on Saturday, all is left open for race day on Sunday. Pleased with Saturday's practice, the Honda teams are ready and waiting, here are quotes from the Honda riders who are racing at the British Grand Prix being held at Donington Park, UK.
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Dani Shooting For Repeat of 2006 British Victory
22 June 2007
Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda RC212V), Honda's main man in MotoGP, has ridden to four podiums so far this season, but a victory has so far eluded the man who lies third overall in the World Championship points standings. Donington Park is where all that could change. The 21-year-old Spanish phenomenon won here last year from Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) and after his gritty ride to third two weeks ago in Catlunya - only just out of touch of Casey Stoner (Ducati) and Rossi at the flag, he is showing all the signs of getting his title challenge back underway.
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Nicky Hayden And The Repsol Honda Team, 2006 World Champions
31 October 2006
Perfect team work and the impeccable race of the North American rider of the Repsol Honda Team certify a historic double win. Dani Pedrosa awarded Rookie of the Year in the MotoGP class, Shuhei Aoyama in the 250cc and Bradley Smith in the 125cc.
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Repsol's Hayden Takes The Fifth Position And Pedrosa Is Sixth After Qualifying Practices
31 October 2006
The Comunitat Valenciana Grand Prix will crown tomorrow the MotoGP World Champion in a race with no possible forecasts and a considerable evenness among all favourites. The qualifying practices staged today at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit have shown that the power is very even, considering that the top six riders are only within three tenths of a second. Nicky Hayden finished fifth and will start tomorrow from the second row of the grid, joined by Dani Pedrosa sixth, but facing the race with highest hopes after a consistent practice session.
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Promising Start Of The Comunitat Valenciana Grand Prix For The Repsol Riders
31 October 2006
The first practise day at the Valencia circuit finishes with Hayden fourth and Pedrosa sixth in MotoGP, and Aoyama sixth and De Gea seventh in the 250cc. The good weather and temperatures which have been higher than expected played an exceptional leading role on the first practice day of the Comunitat Valenciana Grand Prix. It's been a good day for the Repsol riders, who have been able to finish in top positions both in the 250cc and the MotoGP class. The only exception was Bradley Smith; the young British rider crashed during the 125cc practices, fortunately without any physical consequences.
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Repsol Honda Team Starts The Countdown For The Season's Ending In Valencia
27 October 2006
Valencia will set this weekend the full stop to a season that will probably be remembered for a long time given the levelness until the last round. With the 250cc and MotoGP titles yet to be decided, the Ricardo Tormo circuit announced already weeks ago that it was sold out and that there were no more tickets left. It was many years since the title had not been decided already before the last race in the MotoGP class and that has obviously attracted the interest of all fans.
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Repsol's Hayden Assures Himself A Place On The Front Row Of The Grid In Estoril
16 October 2006
The North American rider is third and team mate Dani Pedrosa, hindered by another rider in his fast lap, sets the fourth fastest time and will be starting from the second row. The fight for the victory in the MotoGP class tomorrow will surely be evenly-matched and intense after what we have been able to see today at the Portuguese track of Estoril.
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Nicky Hayden Begins His Title Defence Leading The Standings
16 October 2006
Repsol Honda Team rider Nicky Hayden is second, less than one tenth behind Casey Stoner. Dani Pedrosa is fifth after his first contact with the Portuguese track in the MotoGP class. Good start for the riders of the Repsol Honda Team in Portugal, venue of the sixteenth and penultimate round of the 2006 MotoGP Motorcycle World Championship. In one of the most even and contended ends of the season, the North American rider set out today for his difficult task of defending the leadership of the championship with two races left to go.
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Repsol Honda Back In Europe For Its Final Straight
11 October 2006
Nicky Hayden arrives in Portugal leading the MotoGP overall standings and will be fighting to clinch his first world championship title. Dani Pedrosa will be already recovered from his knee injury in Estoril. The intense and busy three races in September have already been left behind and the World Championship will stage this weekend the Grand Prix of Portugal, sixteenth round of the 2006 Motorcycling World Championship. After Portugal the most contended world championship of the latest years will have its finishing touch in Valencia a couple of weeks later, at the Circuito Ricardo Tormo, with the Comunitat Valenciana Grand Prix.
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Difficult Sunday For The Repsol Honda Team In Japan
24 September 2006
Nicky Hayden is fifth and keeps the overall leadership with an advantage of 12 points. Dani Pedrosa, improving during the race, finishes seventh. The Repsol Honda team takes the teams' championship and Honda the manufacturer's championship.
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Countdown In Motegi For The Repsol Honda Team
23 September 2006
Nicky Hayden ready to defend the leadership tomorrow and Dani Pedrosa ready to give a surprise in the Japanese Grand Prix. It hasn't been one of the best qualifying session days of the Repsol Honda Team riders who are right now in their garages with their respective teams in order to improve the settings of their bikes and prepare tomorrow's race. Both Nicky Hayden and Dani Pedrosa will start this Sunday from the third row of the grid, Hayden from seventh and team mate Pedrosa from ninth. Both riders have been today in average positions during the qualifying session and in the final instants, on qualifying tyres they managed to take a place on the third row.
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Japan Will Be Decisive For The Repsol Honda Team'S Fight For The World Championship
21 September 2006
Nicky Hayden keeps the leadership with an advantage of 21 points, and Dani Pedrosa, after his complicated race in Australia is fourth, 32 points behind his team mate. With 75 points still at stake and three races left, Japan has become an important and decisive round in the fight for the 2006 world championship title in the MotoGP class.
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The Repsol Honda Team Overcomes The Rain Chaos With Different Fortune
17 September 2006
Leader Nicky Hayden saves a complicated situation with a fifth place. Team mate Dani Pedrosa, penalised by the huge crowd in the pit lane while changing his bike finishes 15th. MotoGP experienced today an exciting race, with a lot of suspense, some surprise and several changes in the lead. All teams were looking at the weather before the start of the race in the premier class, and all eyes were fixed on the sky. The black clouds getting closer to Phillip Island did not predict good news and so it was.
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Repsol Honda Team Rider Nicky Hayden, Fastest On The Demanding Australian Track
16 September 2006
Nicky Hayden was fastest today in the definitive qualifying session, after setting the second fastest time in this morning's third free practice behind a surprising Carlos Checa. On a circuit in which riders on Bridgestone tyres are being especially competitive, the rider of the Repsol Honda Team managed to make a perfect lap in the final instants of the session. It was a fast lap that automatically boosted him to the lead of the MotoGP time sheets.
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Australia Receives The Repsol Honda Team With Sun And Cold Temperatures
15 September 2006
Nicky Hayden sets the third fastest time and team mate Dani Pedrosa, still convalescent of his injured right knee, is seventeenth in Phillip Island. The high temperatures and humidity rate in Malaysia have given way to quite different figures only five days later: the 18º C and 28% humidity of Australia have been a heavy change for the whole caravan following the 2006 World Championship. Despite the cold weather, the usual wind at Phillip Island did not show up this time and that made things much easier for the riders, considering that there have been hardly any crashes. The first contact of the Repsol Honda Team, with Phillip Island was trouble-free.
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Australia, Next Stopover For Repsol's Pedrosa And Hayden On The '06' Transoceanic Trip
13 September 2006
Nicky Hayden wants to keep the leadership with a competitive race in Phillip Island. Dani Pedrosa is trying to recover as fast as possible to stay in the fight for the title. The end of the 2006 season is getting closer by leaps and bounds. After the exciting and hectic weekend at the Malaysian Grand Prix, where the heavy crash of Dani Pedrosa on Friday and the intense rainfall on Saturday at the Sepang track where the biggest news of the weekend, the next exciting race weekend is just about to start in Australia.
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Dani Pedrosa Surprises In Sepang With A Superb Third Place For Repsol Honda
10 September 2006
The Repsol rider pulls through the pain in his knee and gets a valuable place on the podium. Team mate Nicky Hayden finishes fourth after a complicated race race. A superb performance of Repsol rider Dani Pedrosa at the Malaysian Grand Prix, after his impressive crash on Friday afternoon at 192 km/h, the deep cut in his right knee and the fissure of his left big toe, Pedrosa has given today a virtuoso demonstration of self-respect, resistance to pain and winner mentality. To warn the rest of the pack and make it clear to everybody that he was ready to give it all, Pedrosa took the lead at the end of the straight right after the start under the amazed look of riders and teams, including the members of the Repsol Honda Team.
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Sepang Experiences A Stormy Second Practice Day For Repsol Honda
09 September 2006
Down-pouring rain on the Malayan track forces the cancellation of the three timed afternoon sessions. Dani Pedrosa made 18 laps in the morning despite the intense pain in his knee and will start tomorrow from the second row. The heavy rainfall at the Malayan racetrack at the end of the morning's 250cc free practice session changed the plans of teams and riders. And it changed them so much that the result was something that had never happened before: the qualifying sessions of the afternoon had to be cancelled due to the large amount of water on the asphalt in Sepang.
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Complicated Start Of The Malaysian Grand Prix For The Repsol Honda Team
08 September 2006
Bad start of the Malaysian Grand Prix for the interests of the Repsol Honda Team, leader of the overall teams' and riders' standings in the 2006 World Championship. While the solid leader of the standings, Nicky Hayden had to settle for a back eleventh place after this first practice day, things went even worse for his team mate Dani Pedrosa, who had a heavy crash 28 minutes before the end of the second free session, while he was leading the time sheets with an advantage of almost one second. The crash caused him a strong blow, injuring his right knee and a toe of his left foot. It happened on turn 13 of the Sepang layout and the Repsol rider was riding at 192 Km/h when he crashed. The front tyre of Dani's bike lost grip on that fast right-hander and the rider, who was leaning his knee on the ground, had the bad luck of hitting with the knee against the inner kerb, causing him a spectacular cut.
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Malaysia, First Venue Of The Final Fight For The 2006 World Title For Repsol
06 September 2006
Nicky Hayden arrives in Sepang leading the standings with an advantage of 25 points over team mate Dani Pedrosa, who is second. Bradley Smith will not be able to race in Malaysia; the team will not be having a substitute for the young Repsol rider, waiting for his comeback in Australia Malaysia, Australia and Japan are the next destinations of the 2006 Motorcycling World Championship, that will be facing a dizzy final straight with three consecutive flyaway races in this intense month of September in order to continue moving towards the final point in October on the Iberian Peninsula with the races in Portugal and Valencia, saying good bye to the 2006 season.
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