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and also braking

for the turnpike.

It's a hard

sport, physically.

You are getting

tired in the race.

You are moving your body and have

a lot of force to move this bike.

And also to go down at

the Corkscrew, I have some pain.

So in that change of direction,

I was not strong enough.

In the race,

Pedrosa leads Lorenzo again.

But this time,

he cracks under pressure.

Crash! Dani Pedrosa!

Dani Pedrosa has crashed out,

leading all the way

in this race so far.

Rossi finds himself in a

last-lap battle with Andrea Dovizioso.

This time, he wins.

He's back on the podium.

But his teammate

is on the top step.

He has a serenity.

Very mature, measured, careful

races he's had all this year,

with or without

Rossi there.

He did a great job,

so great congratulations to him,

and he's in front every practice

and in every condition.

So he's in great,

great shape.

I think he deserves the championship,

without my injury, my crash.

You cannot say nothing

to a rider that...

The worst result

is second, so...

In 2009, Valentino Rossi

said he expected to stay at Yamaha

until the end

of his career.

At Laguna Seca, it's announced that

he will race for Ducati in 2011.

One year ago, I think

that I finish my career with Yamaha.

But after, inside of Yamaha,

a lot of things changed.

Yamaha have hired somebody

who is not just as fast as him,

but frequently

faster than him,

and more distressingly for

Rossi, a great deal younger.

I think we've got

to wait till 2016

before we can make

a determination on that,

because that's when he'd have had

the opportunity to win as many

MotoGP Championships

as Valentino has.

At the next race

in the Czech Republic,

Rossi is on course for a

front row starting position

when he crashes in the final

corner of his fastest lap.

He escapes without injury.

He finishes fifth

in the race.

Lorenzo wins.

Two weeks later in sweltering

heat in Indianapolis,

Rossi crashes again

in practice.

And again.

And again.

When he came back, we thought

that maybe in two or three races,

he would have been 100%.

Now we realize that

it's not like that.

In a normal condition,

you fully dominate your bike,

like you are in control.

Probably now, he is not in control.

He has a lack of power.

After a disappointing

sixth at Laguna Seca,

Ben Spies rises to the occasion on

his return to his home country.

He qualifies on pole and

takes second in the race.

It was a perfect weekend for me.

We didn't win the race,

but in a rookie season,

satellite bike,

you can't ask for

a whole lot more.

Dani Pedrosa wins,

Lorenzo is third, Rossi fourth.

You can't bet

against Valentino.

You know,

Valentino is Valentino.

But there is always

a changing of the guard.

Valentino

said it best himself.

"The young sharks smell

blood, " and they did.

And that aura of invincibility

of Valentino's has been broken.

Now, can he repair that?

Rossi wears a special

helmet for his home race in Misano,

telling himself to wake up

as the hour approaches.

I feel better

with my leg,

but unfortunately, this racetrack

is very demanding for the shoulder,

because it has three

hard braking on the right.

The whole structure of

the shoulder was damaged,

the socket, ligaments,

muscles, cartilage.

I think there's

a particular angle it's fine,

and another angle,

it's very weak.

Braking.

At the end of the straight,

under hard braking.

The maximum G-force

you can have is 2.5G.

The word is that his team

is trying to make the bike

easier for him to ride.

At the end of the day,

if you can make

the bike easier to ride,

why wouldn't you make it easier

to ride for a fit person?

It's impossible. It's impossible

to make the bike easy to ride.

If he had lots of strength, we

could make the bike good for braking,

which is a strength of his.

But when he became tired

or weak with his shoulder,

then we had to slightly move

the setting away from braking

and more towards

sort of help it turn.

We try to make a bike

easier to stop from braking,

but, you know, when you have

a good bike in braking,

then you have a bike

that doesn't turn well,

you create some benefit, but you

create a lot of negative also.

This problem has been the

story of all this year.

Valentino Rossi heads

the second row of the grid.

He is the reigning

MotoGP World Champion.

And the time is

coming up to 2:
00.

It's time,

Valentino, to wake up.

And for those Valentino

Rossi fan club members,

it's time for Valentino Rossi

to win another Grand Prix.

The last time that Valentino

Rossi won a Grand Prix

was April 11th,

it's now September 5th.

What is going on?

In front of his adoring

fans, Rossi does the best he can,

fighting off Casey Stoner

and Andrea Dovizioso

for third place behind Jorge Lorenzo

and race winner Dani Pedrosa,

who is now the only man with a hope

of challenging Lorenzo for the title.

Valentino is like the conductor of an

orchestra, coordinating the rhythm,

the sound and the movement

of the motorcycle.

He has always been beautiful to

watch on a motorcycle, but now

with the shoulder injury,

his style is not so flowing.

In Aragon, at the

Casey Stoner wins for the

first time this year.

And for the first

time this year,

Jorge Lorenzo fails

to get on the podium.

He finishes fourth,

behind Nicky Hayden.

Dani Pedrosa is second,

narrowing the gap to Lorenzo to

125 points

still up for grabs.

Aragon is Valentino Rossi's

worst finish this year.

Sixth.

My throttle kept open

when I was going to brake.

So I was braking, trying to

brake, but with the throttle off,

my bike was full open

and I crashed.

We had a technical

problem on the bike.

And he couldn't control it

and he crashed so bad,

because I think he didn't

expect at that moment anything,

and he fell really hard

on his left shoulder

and he broke

the collarbone.

It seems to have been an

assembly fault, a mechanic's error,

and it cost him

everything.

In the last five years,

he's always been the runner-up,

or second or third.

Finally, to be the champion,

everything has to be

there for you that time.

And it hasn't been

there for him.

We can only keep trying,

and looking for it

and believing in

it the way we do.

Because if you don't believe,

there's no meaning to do nothing.

My dream is to become,

one day, MotoGP World Champion,

at least one title

in MotoGP.

That would

make me very happy.

If not, maybe it's because

I wasn't good enough,

but I know I'm putting

everything here

to make it happen.

The moment that

Dani Pedrosa hit the ground,

the 2010 MotoGP World

Championship was over.

His collarbone is

not simply broken,

it's shattered

into several pieces.

He's flown back

to Spain for surgery.

Officially, Jorge Lorenzo

needs another 19 points

to put the title beyond

Dani Pedrosa's reach.

But Pedrosa will

not be fit enough

to win any more

races this year.

Lorenzo can clinch the world title if

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