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Ok, let's do the reveal then:
The Nine riders to have won a MotoGP since 2007 are:
1. Casey Stoner
2. Jorge Lorenzo
3. Valentino Rossi
4. Marc Marquez
5. Dani Pedrosa
Up to this point these names should have been easy. The following 4 riders are what make this trivia interesting. These four riders won on account of weather conditions or some other peculiar circumstance that shuffled the normal finishing order. With perhaps the exception of Spies, the race was in the dry but an early crash saw the pole setter, Simoncelli take out Lorenzo early, however Spies performance during the year was fairly front runner category when he wasn't suffering a rash of suspect mechanical gremlins.
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6. Ben Spies 2011, Factory Yamaha, Assen GP, DRY but cold weather. (Spies should have won another race at Valencia, but was nipped at the line by Casey Stoner's superior accelerating and drive out the last corner. It should be noted, Spies had speed characterized by an "alien", notching pole positions, however his confidence suffered on account of an extraordinary number of regularly scheduled mechanical failures. He was not resigned to make way for ........ Rossi on account of the Italian's failure At Ducati, and this small matter of his sport agent also being the CEO of MotoGP).
7. Andrea Dovizioso 2009, Factory Honda, Donington GP, WET and cold weather. (Another memorable note was Stoner and Hayden taking a gamble on tires, both ended up being lapped.)
8. Loris Capirossi 2007, Factory Ducati, Motegi GP, WET. (And odd coincidence perhaps, but on the podium was Randy Depuniet, who was also on the podium with Dovizioso in 09 above, in the rain).
9. Chris Vermuelen 2007, Factory Suzuki, Le Mans GP, WET. (Perhaps the most odd win of the bunch, not only because it was in wet conditions, but it was a rare win for Suzuki. Another interesting coincidence, Dovizioso joined Vermuelen on the podium, tying him to his 09 wet weather win.)
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The real story is 7 individual race winners in 2006, 9 in total in 9 seasons since.
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2006? - brilliant season, not simply due to Sachsenring and Estoril - it was full of drama, the last year of the 990s, which were at their baddest. So many memories. KR competitive again, Bayliss wildcard, Yamaha's wrong turn on chassis development, Stoner on the LCR shocking everyone at Qatar, Colin at Assen - and -I always speculate had it not been for Catalunya, would Loris have prevailed?
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Ahh. Vermulen was 2007 wasn't he?
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Ive always wondered if CV's fuel hadnt boiled over at Laguna, would he had been able to maintain the pace to win
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Very good point and well recalled. He was always superb there on a superbike too.
I was there that weekend when a section of the corkscrew melted. Hit 102degrees F by mid afternoon which is unheard of for Monterey Bay area.
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Good memory. I watched that race fm Jumkie hill. Jum was probabaly right next to me years before we even met.
Coming fm Miami and being used to brutal heat barely prepared me for that. I'm still impressed with the thousands of cases of water that were given out for free. Most places see heat wave and up the prices of water. Guna officials were more concerned with peoples safety then making an extra buck.
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I was going to mention that - on the Sunday they had no choice. Imagine that at COTA.
I watched the race outfield at turn 2 (Andretti).
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This is a great observation JK. I'd say that race qualified as extreme weather.
