WRAPUP 1-Tamada holds off Rossi for home victory
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Makoto Tamada gave Honda a clean sweep on their home circuit on Sunday as he cruised to victory in the Japanese Grand Prix at the Motegi Twin Ring Circuit on Sunday.
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Japan&#39;s Makoto Tamada claimed the first pole position of his career after a dramatic final qualifying session for Sunday&#39;s Portugal Grand Prix.
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Valentino Rossi clinched his fourth straight MotoGP world championship, winning the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. The 25-year-old Yamaha racer, an eight-time winner this season, passed Spain&#39;s Sete Giberneau
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Makoto Tamada of Japan claimed provisional pole position Friday for tomorrow&#39;s Malaysian Grand Prix ahead of Sete Gibernau of Spain and world Moto GP champion Valentino Rossi.
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Italian Valentino Rossi confessed on Sunday he had not expected to win a fourth successive world MotoGP title after his switch from Honda to Yamaha this year.
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Motorsport.com. The 25 year-old living legend, Valentino Rossi, stamped his authority at today&#39;s Portuguese GP at the Estoril circuit, by taking his sixth GP victory of the 2004 season and 65th of his career.
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Camel Honda&#39;s Japanese rider Makoto Tamada upstaged title contenders Sete Gibernau and Valentino Rossi with a brilliant lap at the death of Friday&#39;s qualifying session to claim provisional pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix.
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Motorsport.com. Valentino Rossi faces the real possibility of being able to wrap up his MotoGP title defense at this weekend&#39;s Australian GP at the Phillip Island circuit.
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Valentino Rossi has won the Malaysian MotoGP to extend his overall lead in the world championship at the Sepang circuit. Italian countryman Max Biaggi finished second and Alex Barros of Brazil was third.
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Motorsport.com. Makoto Tamada will start tomorrow&#39;s Japanese GP at Motegi in pole position. The Japanese Honda rider stole pole position from fellow Bridgestone-shod rider, John Hopkins, in
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ESTORIL (Portugal): Italy&#39;s Valentino Rossi won the MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix yesterday for the fourth year in a row after snatching the lead on the first lap.
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Valentino Rossi moved a step nearer his fourth world championship title with a dominant victory in the Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril today.
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VALENCIA, Spain -- Alinghi began its America's Cup title defense yesterday by defeating challenger Emirates Team New Zealand by 35 seconds, the start of a sailing showdown for the oldest trophy in international sports.
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na sunny race watched by over 40,000 spectators on the grandstands, Rossi has again shown his supremacy at the Sepang Circuit by clinching yet another race victory in the MotoGP class of the Malaysian Grand Prix.
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Valentino Rossi is crowned world champion with victory at the Australian MotoGP.
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Japan&#39;s Makoto Tamada powered into pole position for Sunday&#39;s Portuguese Grand Prix, setting a lap record just before the end of qualifying on Saturday.
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SEPANG: Italian MotoGP sensation Valentino Rossi (pic) is back in business after winning the Marlboro Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix race for the second successive time at the Sepang F1 Circuit yesterday.