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after a pre-season crash

on a dirt bike.

He won the next

race in Spain,

ahead of his compatriot

and archrival, Dani Pedrosa.

Touching in the last corner

and beating him in the last lap

has been 100% adrenaline.

Lorenzo then staged

a post-race celebration

to rival Rossi's

own theatrics.

At Le Mans, MotoGP

rookie Alvaro Bautista

is also walking wounded after a

motocross accident a week earlier.

When I crashed, I

thought, "Okay, I broke."

I'm here because I think

I can try to ride. No?

Bautista had a compound fracture of his

left clavicle operated on a week ago.

He also had thoracic

bruising and broken ribs.

He wants to ride, and

that is quite incredible.

Bautista is one of

six MotoGP rookies in 2010.

They may be new to MotoGP, but

they're not new to each other.

They've raced each other for years

in the junior MotoGP categories.

Bautista and fellow Spaniard,

Hctor Barber

have some history with the

Italian, Marco Simoncelli.

I like a lot

when there is a physical fight

in the last lap,

to try to win the race.

You fight with the

other rider, you touch.

During the race, you want

to kill the other rider,

but after the race,

you give him the hand,

and you go to drink

a beer together.

Okay, you are fighting

and you want to pass bad.

I think he is different, because

he's very ready to hit you.

Every time something happens,

they come to the race direction,

and they say,

"Simoncelli touched me.

"You have to

disqualify him."

And for me, it's not the true

spirit of the motorcycle race.

For me, it's normal.

And also, if you see, Lorenzo and

Pedrosa in the last race touched,

but nobody say nothing.

Simoncelli

sometimes is very hard.

I am his friend, so with

me, he is more soft.

But especially with Bautista,

Barbera, always hard, hard fight.

But he says they are girls.

Yes.

The rookies have graduated

from 150 mile-an-hour

lightweight machines

to 170 mile-an-hour

middleweights.

Now, it's time to go racing on

There are no better riders than

the men they are up against,

and there are no faster bikes.

This is it.

The beginning of the

season, it was quite difficult.

In Malaysia, I crashed,

I had a big crash.

It was a very

strange crash,

because entering the corner,

I lose the front of my bike

and with the leg, I pick up

the bike for some meters,

but after, the bike

retake the grip,

and I had a very

bad high side.

After that moment, I don't

remember very well what happened.

I am afraid

when I crash

and I understand that

I can do nothing.

So, in this moment,

I am a little bit afraid,

not little bit afraid.

The sixth MotoGP

rookie is American Ben Spies.

Unlike the others, he's come from

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