The last British round of the MotoGP Championship to be held the Donington circuit was held over the weekend of the 24-26 July 2009. For a farewell the rider put on a show for us, the weather probably helped them make it more interesting than they may have liked.
The weather did play a major part in the weekend with no two sessions having the same conditions. Race day was forecast to rain sometime in the afternoon, the rain started in the morning only gently so morning warm up was wet. By the time of the races it was dry and the 125GP started with a dry track, 15 laps in that all changed and the rain came and the rider started falling before the race was red flagged.
The 125 race hadn’t completed enough laps for a result to be declared so a 5 lap sprint was required to get a result, this time in the wet. The conditions caught more riders out including Marc Marquez from the lead and Bradley Smith from 5th. This left Julian Simon to take the win and Scott Reading to take his best result of the year in 3rd.
The 250GP race was far lest eventful and was won by Hiroshi Aoyama with a sizeable lead.
The MotoGP race saw an action packed 50 minutes with three of the leaders falling in the trick conditions, wrong tyre choices saw the Ducati’s of Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden being lapped before half race distance. Jorge Lorenzo crashed out whilst leading, Toni Elias crashed out having lead the first few laps and Valentino Rossi also crashed out of the lead, although the Doctor did manage to remount and finish 5th after a duel with James Toseland in the last corners of the last lap.
James Toseland made amends for last years disappointment with 6th place, and without a few scary moments could well have finished higher. Rider of the day has to go to Colin Edwards who got off to a slow start and was down in 15th place on the first lap but made it all the way up to 2nd on the last lap and had there been one or two more laps could of made it all the way to the top step. The honour of the win for the last Donington MotoGP was to got to Andrea Dovizioso for his maiden MotoGp win and his first podium of the year.
Photos from Donington MotoGP 2009
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