Lorenzo- Rossi is a sporting hero

Jorge Lorenzo has described his Yamaha team-mate and championship rival Valentino Rossi as a hero after watching the Italian score his 100th grand prix victory in the Dutch TT at Assen on Saturday.

The Spaniard was powerless to catch Rossi after a poor start rendered Lorenzo mid-pack on the first lap.The two-time race winner in 2009 fought his way back up to second and though initially he began to catch Rossi, a fading front tyre prevented him from staging a challenge for the lead.

"The hero today is Valentino," said Lorenzo. "He won 100 races and this number is unbelievable."My race has been quite difficult because at some points on this track I lost so many tenths, especially in T4. I didn't solve this problem enough through the weekend to catch Valentino. So I struggled a lot to reduce the gap to Valentino and when my front tyre started to go off and said to myself: 'Okay today second position is good'.

Lorenzo admitted that his poor start had cost him a lot of time in the early laps of the race.

"After making such a bad start you have to be very careful because if you want to overtake riders in any corners on the first laps you can crash," he told the BBC. "I overtook some riders and then I wanted to reduce the gap between myself and Valentino."I closed a little every lap but then the front tyre started to go."

Date published : 27 Jun 200914:02:06

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pos	name	pts
1	Valentino Rossi	306
2	Jorge Lorenzo	261
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4	Casey Stoner	220
5	Colin Edwards	161
6	Andrea Dovizioso	160
7	Toni Elias	115
8	Alex de Angelis	111
9	Loris Capirossi	110
10	Marco Melandri	108
11	Randy de Puniet	106
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13	Nicky Hayden	104
14	James Toseland	92
15	Mika Kallio	71
16	Niccolo Canepa	38
17	Gábor Talmácsi	19
18	Aleix Espargaró	16
19	Sete Gibernau	12
20	Ben Spies	9
21	Yuki Takahashi	9

pos	name	pts
1	Hiroshi Aoyama	261
2	Héctor Barberá	239
3	Marco Simoncelli	231
4	Alvaro Bautista	218
5	Mattia Pasini	128
6	Raffaele De Rosa	122
7	Thomas Luthi	120
8	Mike Di Meglio	107
9	Hector Faubel	105
10	Alex Debon	101
11	Roberto Locatelli	85
12	Jules Cluzel	82
13	Ratthapark Wilairot	81
14	Karel Abraham	74
15	Lukas Pesek	74
16	Alex Baldolini	41
17	Shoya Tomizawa	32
18	Gábor Talmácsi	28
19	Shuhei Aoyama	27
20	Aleix Espargaró	22
21	Valentin Debise	18
22	Imre Toth	12
23	Balázs Németh	11
24	Vladimir Leonov	9
25	Axel Pons	3
26	Bastien Chesaux	3
27	Toby Markham	2
28	Kazuki Watanabe	2
29	Steve Bonsey	1

pos	name	pts
1	Julian Simon	289
2	Bradley Smith	223.5
3	Nicolas Terol	179.5
4	Pol Espargaró	174.5
5	Sergio Gadea	141
6	Sandro Cortese	130
7	Andrea Iannone	125.5
8	Marc Márquez	94
9	Joan Olive	91
10	Stefan Bradl	85
11	Simone Corsi	81
12	Jonas Folger	73
13	Dominique Ägerter	70.5
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15	Scott Redding	50.5
16	Takaaki Nakagami	43
17	Daniel Webb	38.5
18	Esteve Rabat	37
19	Lorenzo Zanetti	37
20	Johann Zarco	32.5
21	Randy Krummenacher	32
22	Luis Salom	21
23	Marcel Schrötter	18
24	Tomoyoshi Koyama	17
25	Michael Ranseder	9
26	Lorenzo Savadori	7
27	Jasper Iwema	3
28	Riccardo Moretti	3
29	Cameron Beaubier	3
30	Gregory Di Carlo	2
31	Marvin Fritz	2
32	Martin Glossop	2
33	Daniel Kartheininger	1

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