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Sepang, Malaysia
Circuit information
Race details
Location: Sepang, Malaysia
Date: 21 - 23 October 2011
Circuit length: 5.543 km
Laps: 21 laps
Race length: 116.508 km
Record: 2'00.518 V. Rossi, 2009
MotoGP of Malaysia
The Sepang International Circuit is located on an 80 km distance from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. It was designed by the German architect Hermann Tilke in the late ‘90s. It has a length of 5,543 km and a notable width of 16m. This makes high speeds on the circuit possible and offers many overtaking opportunities. The circuit has 15 turns and each one can be taken at high speed. It is known for hosting the Malaysian MotoGP.
Characteristics
of the Sepang International Circuit are the grandstands where drivers
race around. The circuit is very safe and loved by many drivers. It can
be divided into multiple configurations. The 1st half of the circuit,
the north-circuit, is used for smaller race classes. The south-circuit
is the other half and also used for smaller race classes.
Besides the Malaysian MotoGP, the Sepang International Circuit is also the venue for the Formula 1 Malaysian Grand Prix.
Three different riders, three different stories, none of them with happy endings.
Ducati Marlboro’s Valentino Rossi returned to the Sepang International Circuit where he won his last race over a year ago and hasn’t come close since. This weekend he crashed yet again with a lack of front end feeling. In the year since he first rode the Desmosedici, that lack of front end feeling hasn’t improved. And he keeps crashing.
“It’s a problem that I had from the first time I tested this bike,” Rossi told the Italian media in his native language on Saturday afternoon. “Unfortunately we haven’t been able to resolve it. After a year we have the same problem.”
Yamaha's Ben Spies had to pull out of the Malaysian GP with lingering injuries.
The problems of Americans Ben Spies and John Hopkins were less long-lived. Spies withdrew from the Malaysian Grand Prix hours after qualifying a painful 16 out of 17. The only rider slower than Spies was his teammate, Yamaha’s 30-year-old tester Katsuyuki Nakasuga, who was riding Jorge Lorenzo’s YZR-M1’s and not all that well. Lorenzo was six time zones away recovering from surgery that was meant to save his mangled finger.
“It is just frustrating, because we come to a track where we know the bike works good, we know we were fast here in the off-season tests, but tomorrow we can’t be fast and today we can’t be fast and push 100%,” Spies said. “If I push at 100% I don’t have enough in me to get me out of problems when I get into one. It is what it is, but, you know, it has been a rough month.”
Rizla Suzuki's John Hopkins will watch the Malaysian GP with medical issues.
Hopkins was hoping for redemption after his last MotoGP appearance in Brno, the Czech Republic. Hopkins didn’t make it to the race that weekend; he didn’t even make it to qualifying. A wet track crash caused finger damage that the Californian couldn’t have imagined would destroy his season, not on in British Super bike, where he was forced to return to the U.S. repeatedly for medical attention, but also in Sepang, where all that surgical hardware came apart after a day of hard riding. So on Saturday morning, Hopkins made the heartbreaking decision to sit out his final ride of the season on the Rizla Suzuki.
“I’ve been through hell the last month and a half having to ride in just severe pain,” Hopkins said on Saturday morning. “Yeah, I wanted to win the championship and had to do what I had to do just to get through that. But I’m in desperate, like mentally and physically, need of an off-season at the moment.”
Rossi can’t wait for the off-season. This has been the worst season of his professional career by any measure. Worst placements, worst qualifying, most crashes, and no wins for the first time in since his rookie season. The greatness expected by the marriage of Ducati and Rossi hasn’t happened. It’s the complete opposite. The nine-time world champion has spent the year trying to explain what’s wrong and why it’s not right. That he continues to have the same problems he had a year ago, when he first tested the bike after Valencia, is dumbfounding.
“The problem is that unfortunately with this bike when you are very much on the edge and the first moment you touch the throttle, the front start to vibrate and a lot of time you can crash,” he said after his Saturday qualifying crash. “It’s the same problem we have from the beginning of the season and is the problem of 95% of my crashes this year is always the same. And was a Ducati problem also in the past, so we have to try to fix these things before try to go faster. Unfortunately, until now we are not able to fix, but maybe with the next modify we can do.” With only one race remaining this season, it’s certainly too little way too late.
Spies didn’t recover in time from his qualifying crash in Australia. He thought he could ride through the pain and predicted a top ten finish. Then reality set in and he and the team made the decision to withdraw. Yamaha would have only the test rider flying the flag, other than the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team, which put Colin Edwards fourth on the grid. “It is what it is but, y’know, it has been a rough month,” he said a few hours after qualifying 16th out of 17. “Looking back it has sucked all in all, but tomorrow we’re all the way over here, we're in Malaysia, so we might as well go out there and show some support. I don’t want to sit there and watch the race, that’s for damn sure so we’ll try to be out there riding.” Or not.
Hopkins pulled out early in the day when it was clear his finger wasn’t responding to what little care he could give it. Instead his finger was filled with loose screws and plates that threatened to damage tendons and nerves. There was no choice but to pull out, have his 25th surgery, and let the finger heal properly. Hopkins is a hot property in both MotoGP and World Superbike. Team managers certainly don’t want to hire damaged goods.
“I knew the bones never connected after Silverstone, after the second (Showdown) round when I had gotten the screws and pins, but the metal was thankfully still holding it together and the knuckle was still able to function and that has been the case,” he said. “And I knew it needed severe, just like proper physical therapy treatment and rest and everything after this weekend, regardless. But just the force of yesterday has just completely opened the screws and now the screws have actually come apart. It’s not even about riding through pain.”
Watch MotoGP of Malaysia Live Streaming
Sepang, Malaysia
Circuit information
Race details
Location: Sepang, Malaysia
Date: 21 - 23 October 2011
Circuit length: 5.543 km
Laps: 21 laps
Race length: 116.508 km
Record: 2'00.518 V. Rossi, 2009
MotoGP of Malaysia
The Sepang International Circuit is located on an 80 km distance from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. It was designed by the German architect Hermann Tilke in the late ‘90s. It has a length of 5,543 km and a notable width of 16m. This makes high speeds on the circuit possible and offers many overtaking opportunities. The circuit has 15 turns and each one can be taken at high speed. It is known for hosting the Malaysian MotoGP.
Characteristics
of the Sepang International Circuit are the grandstands where drivers
race around. The circuit is very safe and loved by many drivers. It can
be divided into multiple configurations. The 1st half of the circuit,
the north-circuit, is used for smaller race classes. The south-circuit
is the other half and also used for smaller race classes.Besides the Malaysian MotoGP, the Sepang International Circuit is also the venue for the Formula 1 Malaysian Grand Prix.
Three different riders, three different stories, none of them with happy endings.Ducati Marlboro’s Valentino Rossi returned to the Sepang International Circuit where he won his last race over a year ago and hasn’t come close since. This weekend he crashed yet again with a lack of front end feeling. In the year since he first rode the Desmosedici, that lack of front end feeling hasn’t improved. And he keeps crashing.
“It’s a problem that I had from the first time I tested this bike,” Rossi told the Italian media in his native language on Saturday afternoon. “Unfortunately we haven’t been able to resolve it. After a year we have the same problem.”
Yamaha's Ben Spies had to pull out of the Malaysian GP with lingering injuries.
The problems of Americans Ben Spies and John Hopkins were less long-lived. Spies withdrew from the Malaysian Grand Prix hours after qualifying a painful 16 out of 17. The only rider slower than Spies was his teammate, Yamaha’s 30-year-old tester Katsuyuki Nakasuga, who was riding Jorge Lorenzo’s YZR-M1’s and not all that well. Lorenzo was six time zones away recovering from surgery that was meant to save his mangled finger.
“It is just frustrating, because we come to a track where we know the bike works good, we know we were fast here in the off-season tests, but tomorrow we can’t be fast and today we can’t be fast and push 100%,” Spies said. “If I push at 100% I don’t have enough in me to get me out of problems when I get into one. It is what it is, but, you know, it has been a rough month.”
Rizla Suzuki's John Hopkins will watch the Malaysian GP with medical issues.
Hopkins was hoping for redemption after his last MotoGP appearance in Brno, the Czech Republic. Hopkins didn’t make it to the race that weekend; he didn’t even make it to qualifying. A wet track crash caused finger damage that the Californian couldn’t have imagined would destroy his season, not on in British Super bike, where he was forced to return to the U.S. repeatedly for medical attention, but also in Sepang, where all that surgical hardware came apart after a day of hard riding. So on Saturday morning, Hopkins made the heartbreaking decision to sit out his final ride of the season on the Rizla Suzuki.
“I’ve been through hell the last month and a half having to ride in just severe pain,” Hopkins said on Saturday morning. “Yeah, I wanted to win the championship and had to do what I had to do just to get through that. But I’m in desperate, like mentally and physically, need of an off-season at the moment.”
Rossi can’t wait for the off-season. This has been the worst season of his professional career by any measure. Worst placements, worst qualifying, most crashes, and no wins for the first time in since his rookie season. The greatness expected by the marriage of Ducati and Rossi hasn’t happened. It’s the complete opposite. The nine-time world champion has spent the year trying to explain what’s wrong and why it’s not right. That he continues to have the same problems he had a year ago, when he first tested the bike after Valencia, is dumbfounding.
“The problem is that unfortunately with this bike when you are very much on the edge and the first moment you touch the throttle, the front start to vibrate and a lot of time you can crash,” he said after his Saturday qualifying crash. “It’s the same problem we have from the beginning of the season and is the problem of 95% of my crashes this year is always the same. And was a Ducati problem also in the past, so we have to try to fix these things before try to go faster. Unfortunately, until now we are not able to fix, but maybe with the next modify we can do.” With only one race remaining this season, it’s certainly too little way too late.
Spies didn’t recover in time from his qualifying crash in Australia. He thought he could ride through the pain and predicted a top ten finish. Then reality set in and he and the team made the decision to withdraw. Yamaha would have only the test rider flying the flag, other than the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team, which put Colin Edwards fourth on the grid. “It is what it is but, y’know, it has been a rough month,” he said a few hours after qualifying 16th out of 17. “Looking back it has sucked all in all, but tomorrow we’re all the way over here, we're in Malaysia, so we might as well go out there and show some support. I don’t want to sit there and watch the race, that’s for damn sure so we’ll try to be out there riding.” Or not.
Hopkins pulled out early in the day when it was clear his finger wasn’t responding to what little care he could give it. Instead his finger was filled with loose screws and plates that threatened to damage tendons and nerves. There was no choice but to pull out, have his 25th surgery, and let the finger heal properly. Hopkins is a hot property in both MotoGP and World Superbike. Team managers certainly don’t want to hire damaged goods.
“I knew the bones never connected after Silverstone, after the second (Showdown) round when I had gotten the screws and pins, but the metal was thankfully still holding it together and the knuckle was still able to function and that has been the case,” he said. “And I knew it needed severe, just like proper physical therapy treatment and rest and everything after this weekend, regardless. But just the force of yesterday has just completely opened the screws and now the screws have actually come apart. It’s not even about riding through pain.”
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