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MOTOGP
MID-SEASON PROGRESS REPORT
HALFWAY
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Glory
MICHAEL SCOTT TAKES A LOOK AT WHO IS DOING WHAT
AT THE HALFWAY POINT IN THE MOTOGP SEASON AS THE
SERIES HEADS TO INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPAEEDWAY
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
Y
es, it's that time of year
again… the MotoGP season is halfway through.
And it hasn't been dull.
There's been the rise of a
young star with rookie Marc
Marquez breaking Freddie
Spencer's record of being the
youngest to win in the premier
class in the inaugural Red Bull
Grand Prix of The Americas in
Texas; there's been the return
to glory for MotoGP's biggest
star, Valentino Rossi – a winner at Assen; and amidst it all
there's the usual chess game
between the established Yamaha and Honda riders - reigning
World Champion Jorge Lorenzo
and Repsol Honda veteran Dani
Pedrosa.
Here's Michael Scott's breakdown of the season thus far for
the major players in the game of
warfare that is MotoGP.
>>MARC MARQUEZ
Before the Laguna Seca round,
Marquez led on points, with
each of the top three having one
zero score. What a debut, what
a rookie. Two wins, three poles,
and never off the rostrum. He
rides the factory Honda with aggressive abandon, prompting
Valentino Rossi to say (of his Laguna debut) "he reminds me a lot
of [Casey] Stoner." An ominous
resemblance, for the established
stars.
