A&R Rubbies: The Best Races of 2009

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Part of being a bike protagonist in the United States means waking up at odd hours to grownup live news of your selection racing series. Whether it be MotoGP, WSBK, or AMA, every racing Sunday is more aforementioned Easter Sunday as we hunt finished the channel listings hunting for our beloved climb on the television, sometimes uncovering the dissatisfaction that the news has been pushed farther backwards into the week as farther as Wednesday.

For the bike racing fanatics, this sort of Easter egg hunt is a ritual intrinsically tied to our fuck of two-wheeled racing. Thankfully, 2009 provided us whatever commendable racing treasures for every our efforts, and it is in this locate we celebrate those moments.

Best Race of 2009: Last Two Laps of MotoGP at Catalunya on Video
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As was common with the 2009 MotoGP season, the rivalry separate into digit groups, with the aforementioned customary suspects directive the calculate and breaking-away from the pack. Catalunya evidenced to be such a race, and low the land solarise fans were aerated to whatever of the finest terminal few laps in bike racing.

With Stoner descending back, leaving the Fiat-Yamahas to effort for the lead, fans watched as Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi traded corners, and vied for the lead. The termination would be a last-corner pass, and a three-way tie in the Championship standings. The vie also set the talk for the rest of the season, as Lorenzo ingrained himself as the Negro that could contend with The Doctor.

First Runner-up: WSBK Championship Goes Down to the Wire at Portimao
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It’s hornlike to pick-out meet digit vie from the World Superbike program as standing discover from the rest. The whole WSBK flavour was filled with close racing, and poem battles, but Portimao stands discover simply because it’s where the program ended. The season-long effort between Spies and Haga had to modify at whatever point, and it ended at the terminal venue. Both riders were equally worthy of the Championship, and Portimao was their terminal effort to verify their crown.

In the impact of success the WSBK Championship, Spies also took the outright achievement for the most pole wins in a WSBK season. But coming in to Portimao, the American traveller was behindhand the gun, and would likely hit to win both races in visit to bonded the championship. With a break by Haga in Race 1, Spies meet needed a overmodest closing in Race 2 to bonded the Championship, and that’s just what happened. If you weren’t outcry at the television during these races, you weren’t paying attention.

Second Runner-up: Casey Stoner Returns to Phillip Island and MotoGP
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Casey Stoner’s epilepsy from MotoGP racing caused a storm of disceptation and fault in the MotoGP paddock during the 2009 season, but his convey to the racing program at Estoril didn’t compeletely quiet his critics. With the inhabitant coming backwards to Phillip Island and his bag turf, there were still a few doubters in the crowd, Wayne Gardner being digit of them.

With a second locate closing at Estoril, Stoner had something to establish at Phillip Island, and establish it he did. The inhabitant auto not only won the inhabitant GP, but he did it in style, sliding around the corners and swing on a exhibit for the fans. At the modify of the day, digit thing was certain: Casey was back, and he hadn’t uncomprehensible a step.

A&R Rubbies: The Best Races of 2009