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What's gonna happen
when the red lights go out
at 2:
00 in the afternoon?MotoGP race time.
In the next 45 minutes,
Wheel to wheel, side by side
at 200 miles an hour.
What's gonna happen?
On a good day, the answer doesn't
come until the very end.
The race is a battle
to the finish line.
June 15th, 2009
was a very good day.
two laps to go.
Thirty-year-old Italian
multiple MotoGP champion
Valentino Rossi,
against his 21-year-old Spanish
teammate, Jorge Lorenzo.
"Teammate" is a
misleading term.
They are bitter rivals
in the same colors
on the same bikes.
Rossi is used to
being number one.
Lorenzo wants to be.
Lorenzo has won two of the
five races so far this season,
the champion only one.
Now, Rossi faces losing to Lorenzo in
front of the Spaniard's home crowd
and losing another five points
to him in the championship.
Victory would put
Rossi level on points.
More importantly, it would
put Lorenzo in his place,
at least for the time being.
A hundred thousand fans are watching
millions more on TV
around the world.
Here he
comes, down the straight,
Jorge Lorenzo's
gonna go through,
and he's gone through
Valentino Rossi.
Lorenzo brakes,
closes the door.
Very smart move, fairing
to fairing in the chicane.
He's trying to get past.
Jorge won't let him.
Final lap. Lorenzo in
front, Rossi behind.
Attention, attention. They've
been together all race long.
Of all those
than Rossi's own team where his
Faster, faster,
faster here!
Go, go!
More, more faster!
Rossi's best chance
is in the next few corners.
From Turn 10 onwards
it's all but impossible.
Haifa lap
to go here at Barcelona-
Jorge's beating him
hand to hand.
It's crazy, he'll be
leading the championship.
Go Valentino, go!
Head to head.
Lorenzo's carrying
a lot of speed out of Turn 9.
There's no way
through there.
Oh, mamma mia!
Mamma mia! Mamma mia!
On the inside,
Jorge's really got him.
Three corners to win
He said
to me before this weekend,
if you go into
these corners first,
you know you're
gonna win the race.
Almost impossible. Very, very difficult.
Lorenzo ahead, Rossi behind.
There's no room here.
When Jorge
closed the door on me in Turn 9,
I say, "F***, I have to
try in the last corner."
But I don't know
if I crash.
And I hope, if I crash, we
crash together. Not alone.
And from that moment, I tried to
stay very, very, very close to him.
And I know I have a small
chance on the last corner.
It is strange
because I thought, "Okay, if
I can be the maximum fast,
in the last two corners,
"he can't overtake me."
I just ride to go fast,
so some part of me thought, "Okay,
Valentino is going to try."
So, I didn't want to close
He's going to try the same.
And another
part of me thought,
"Valentino is not
going to try,
"it's impossible
to pass there."
The surprise
was the important thing,
because also
Jorge don't expect.
When we arrived
to the last corner,
I said, "I have to brake a little bit
later than him, but not too much."
So, when he brake, I brake a bit
later, like five, six meters later,
and I try to put my bike
at 180 kilometers an hour
in 35 centimeters.
And I say,
"Maybe now I crash."
At the maximum braking,
when I go to the apex,
I feel the front go away.
And I say, "Please, don't
slide more because we crash."
But the front stayed.
The Bridgestone
front tire is a great tire.
What a race. He's got one corner left.
He's going for the inside.
And Rossi, he manages
something in the final corner.
I don't believe it.
I can't believe it.
He's done it.
I can't believe it.
It's impossible. Bravo!
And we arrived on the finish line
like this, but a little bit in front.
And it was
a great emotion.
What a race.
What a pass.
How did he do it?
Rossi's done it.
Valentino Rossi is one
of the most incredible riders...
I make
a really good race-
The only mistake I made
was in the last corner.
learn every day in racing.
Rossi!
They come and they go.
And they go as fast
as they possibly can.
For over 60 years, the fastest
motorcycle racers in the world
have dreamed
the same dream.
To win at the highest level.
The Grand Prix
World Championship.
Most of them last
a few seasons.
A rare few,
a decade or more.
And some,
just a few races.
Most walk away.
Some do not.
Safer now than it was,
but how can it ever be safe?
Wheel to wheel at 200 miles
an hour on a motorcycle.
People die doing this.
But most of them live.
Really live.
Over 750 riders
since 1949,
all brave, all fast,
and almost all destined to fail
at the ultimate challenge.
In 60 years, only 24 riders have won
the premier class world championship.
Of them, a few
won multiple titles.
And at the very summit of the
sport stand just two men
who have won the title
more than five times each,
Giacomo Agostini, who raced
in the '60s and the '70s
and took the premier
And Valentino Rossi, on his way
How many more races?
How many more
championships can he win?
Is he the greatest of all time?
Time will tell.
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