Valentino Rossi wins Qatar MotoGP as Stoner crashes out

The world champion of the last years, Valentino Rossi, opens the 2010 motogp championship winning the first race in Qatar after Casey Stoner's crash on the fifth lap.

Valentino gained the second place after passing the other Italian rider, Andrea Dovizioso. Then, unexpectedly, Casey Stoner, who was leading the race, crashed out in lap five and Valentino achieved the first place and won some seconds, what gave him advantage. The challenge then was for the second and third place. Jorge Lorenzo, the Spanish rider, improve a lot during the race and obtained the second place in the last laps. Dovizioso was battling with the American Nicky Hayden for the third place. The Italian edged out the American off the podium by just 0.011 seconds right on the finish line.

In my opinion Valentino is the best rider in the last years, he has won 9 grand pix and race after race he surpises us with a new manoeuvre. I hope that this year will win again but I admit that he has difficult rivals like Lorenzo or Stoner. However, he'll do his best like always and he'll show us greats shows.