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he finishes first or second in Japan.

He'll have to get past

his teammate to do this.

That was very brave,

wasn't it, from Lorenzo,

round the outside

of Valentino Ross:

And Lorenzo trying to find the

inside of Valentino Rossi.

He's got it.

Can Rossi retake him?

And he's gonna

love doing that.

Back through at Turn 5.

We still have to see Lorenzo

under pressure, with the injury of Vale,

by the half of season,

he had quite a big gap

in the championship.

Here comes Lorenzo,

he almost does take

Rossi's leg off now.

Can Rossi react again?

Going down towards Turn 5.

They're side by side in the tunnel

and Rossi returned the favor.

Can Lorenzo stick it around

the outside of him,

in towards the S-curve,

he's gonna try it.

On the inside now,

very hard stuff.

Eight turns going around

there, Rossi on the inside...

Valentino still

has this aura about him

if it comes down

to a last-lap fight,

that he is not beaten

and will not be beaten.

Now, can he go around

the outside another time?

He loves that maneuver.

Here he comes once more,

in towards the S-curve,

and this time he will

go in front once more.

Can Rossi react

to the left hand...

He's gonna try...

It's the block pass, isn't

it, from Valentino Ross:

Valentino beat him up

good and proper, totally fairly.

Good close racing, but it

was no mercy to a teammate

who's getting close

to a world championship.

Rossi has held him off

for the final podium position,

but delight

for Ducati and Stoner,

he wins the

Japanese Grand Prix!

Brilliant performance!

Second place,

Andrea Dovizioso.

In third place is

Valentino Ross:

Jorge Lorenzo

must wait another week

before he can get his hands

on Rossi's crown.

He's where he should be.

He's in pole position,

his sixth pole

of the season,

eight Grand Prix wins

before the start of the most

important race of his life.

The Grand Prix of Malaysia,

Lorenzo leads the way.

I remember

when I was 16,

I was so ingenuous

about everything,

I didn't get any result,

and this world of the

motorcycle, for me, was so big,

and I was so small.

So I had a lot of pressure

to make good race.

I crashed many times,

making some mistakes,

but, you know, fortunately,

you get better.

Jorge Lorenzo will be

crowned the 2010 World Champion.

He finishes third

in the race. He's done it.

Twenty years after

he first rode a motorcycle,

just as his father predicted,

Jorge Lorenzo is

MotoGP World Champion.

That day in Malaysia, at the

same time, in the same place,

there is another race.

Between 2004 and 2010,

Valentino Rossi has won

When I arrive at 45,

I say, "I have to do 46. "

It's Lorenzo

around the outside.

Look out for Casey

Stoner on the inside,

and Ben Spies as well.

Stoner up into third, but

where is Valentino Rossi?

He's way, way back.

He's right down

the order.

Absolute disaster

for Valentino Ross:

He's not in the top 10.

We seem to have lost Casey Stoner.

Where's he gone?

In that final corner,

Stoner's gone down.

Stoner out of the race.

He's won the last two races,

he's not gonna win this one.

Where is Valentino Rossi?

Up into eighth position now,

ahead of Loris Capirossi.

There's Rossi,

come from a long way back,

try and fight through on the

inside of Colin Edwards.

He really, really means

business this afternoon.

He wants the battle,

doesn't he?

And there's the man who

will be taking his seat

at the Fiat Yamaha

team next year, Ben Spies.

And no way for Spies

to fightback.

On board now with

Valentino Rossi,

the fastest rider on the

circuit at the moment.

He desperately wanted

the 46th win on a Yamaha.

He was in bad shape,

but he fought for it.

Pulls up into fourth

now, past Nicky Hayden.

Marco Simoncelli

having a great race.

He's thrown

Hayden as well.

Valentino Rossi closing

right up now on Marco Simoncelli.

Rossi comes so, so late,

taken third place.

Into Turn 1, Andrea Dovizioso

takes over the lead in the race

and runs Lorenzo

slightly wide.

Rossi is just under 02:02:01,

almost half a second quicker.

Rossi on the inside,

how much distance between those

two bikes as Rossi comes through.

Lorenzo runs in a little

bit wide at Turn 1.

Here comes Rossi

down into Turn 9.

Dovizioso running

very wide there.

Here comes Dovizioso,

down into Turn 1.

And Dovizioso takes over

at the front once more,

and Rossi fighting back.

Here comes Rossi on the

inside, he's done it again.

He's back in front.

It's something incredible,

that after seven seasons,

I do exactly 46 victories

with Yamaha.

It's something maybe written

in the destiny, you know?

Valentino Rossi wins

the Malaysian Grand Prix.

After all the broken leg,

the shoulder injuries,

Rossi is back.

It was great- Also I prefer to

win 47, 48 or 49, but not less than 46-

Valentino Rossi rounds off

the season with three podium finishes

and third place overall

in the championship.

He bids farewell to Yamaha in

a letter to his beloved bike.

Many things have changed since

that far-off time in 2004

when my M1 and I kissed for the

first time on the grass at Welkom,

when she looked straight in my

eyes and told me, "I love you!"

Rossi inherits Stoner's

volatile Ducati for 2011.

He has an operation

to repair his shoulder

after a first test,

where he was 15th fastest.

I have a bad

problem with the shoulder,

so I don't understand

the bike very well.

Now I make the surgery.

It's a question of getting

the fitness back into Valentino.

The development and the setting for

him will come more quickly then.

Valentino still has many

things to do in motorcycling.

Now, it's like

I am 10 years younger, no?

Because it's a new adventure

starting from the beginning.

It's a great emotion,

it's like we start from zero.

So, I hope to do this

for some other seasons.

How many more races? How

many more championships can he win?

Back in 1977,

Giacomo Agostini walked away

from Grand Prix racing

after 14 seasons,

unscathed and untouchable.

In 2012, as he chases

Agostini's record

of eight premier class

championships

and 122

Grand Prix victories,

Valentino Rossi will be entering

his 17th year in MotoGP.

But for every year that you push your

bike and your body to the limit,

you push your luck

to the limit as well.

You can't be

the fastest forever.

And when the red lights go

out, nobody's looking back.

The past is behind you.

And there's only

one question.

Who's fastest now?

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