motogp Rossi dominates to win in Misano  
Rossi wins in Misano in front of home fans

Valentino Rossi dominates to victory in home track Misano

7 times MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi finally cleared his victory drought of 2014 with a tremendous victory in home track at Misano, San Marino. Rossi also topped in Saturday Practice 4 and on Sunday warm–up and rose to a much needed victory beating reigning champion Marquez and team mate Lorenzo.

At the start Lorenzo on the Yamaha zoomed into the lead starting from pole while Rossi and Marquez slotted behind the leader and the trio soon broke off from the rest of the field.


As Lorenzo was leading Marquez started attack Rossi for 2nd on lap 2 but Rossi immediately returned a response to the young champ to show his determination to win in front of his home crowd. Just before end of lap 2 Marquez made a even tight overtaking on Rossi but again the old master came back strong to regain his position. Few corners later Rossi attacked Lorenzo for the lead and eventually succeeded after multi corner overtaking action by the two Yamahas. Couple of corners later Marquez too sneaked past Lorenzo but the Yamaha rider lacked pace to re-attack his country man.

Rossi leading in MisanoFor the next 4 laps Marquez tried to stick with Rossi, who was rock solid with the lead and was slightly edging away while Lorenzo dropped off to 1.8secs behind the leader. On Lap 9 Marquez tried too hard to keep up with Rossi and made a mistake and lost the front end and spinning in the slow Rio corner. However the Honda rider managed to restart the bike with much hardship and rejoined the race in 20th place just before getting lapped by Rossi.

From that moment Rossi was virtually unchallenged for first his home victory in 5 years as team mate Lorenzo was almost 2.5secs behind in 2nd. 

Pedrosa managed to get 3rd after getting ahead of the Ducatis of Iannone and Dovizioso, Its a good result for Ducati as showed good pace to stay with the Factory Honda and a sign of improvement in last few races.

Marquez managed to finish 15th and grab 1 point to salvage some for the championship.   







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