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Race

This race featured a battle between Marco Melandri and Nicky Hayden, and a fightback to third place from a bad qualifying from Valentino Rossi, who by then was already crowned world champion. Before the start of the weekend, the Factory Yamaha Team had unveiled a special, one-off 'retro' livery to commemorate Yamaha's fiftieth anniversary and their very successful year in racing, replacing their main sponsor and its colours (

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and dark blue) with the traditional white with red and black blocks/stripes. They ran a similar livery before at the

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round but that livery consisted of yellow instead of white. After sixteen rounds, Valentino Rossi has already won the title at the

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round. Rossi has since then increased his title lead to 351 points. Second is Marco Melandri with 195 points and a close third is Nicky Hayden with 186 points. On Saturday,

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clinched his the final pole position of the season - his fifth - with a time of 1:31.874. Second is

Marco Melandri Marco Melandri (born 7 August 1982) is an Italian retired motorcycle road racer who is a five-time premier class race winner. He is the 2002 250 cc World Champion and runner-up in 125 cc, MotoGP and Superbike World Championship. He c ...

who is +0.237 seconds behind and third is

Nicky Hayden Nicholas Patrick Hayden (July 30, 1981 May 22, 2017), nicknamed "The Kentucky Kid", was an American professional motorcycle racer who won the MotoGP World Championship in 2006. Hayden began racing motorcycles at a young age. He began his roa ...

who is +0.343 seconds behind. The second row of the grid consists out of

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in fourth place,

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in fifth place and

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in sixth place. World champion

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had a poor qualifying result after a crash and starts a lowly fifteenth. Suzuki test rider

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replaces

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who is still recovering from a broken left wrist he sustained after a big highside during Friday practice at the

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round, having then also confirmed his split with the team shortly after.

MotoGP classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (motoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seventeen has concluded. ;Riders' Championship standings ;Constructors' Championship standings * Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

{{MotoGP 2000–09 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

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