MotoGP at Assen - Netherlands

Valentino Rossi, for all his undoubted talents, has never been the best of starters in MotoGP races. In the A-Style TT Assen, he came unstuck due to a combination of over-exuberance a cold tyre and the tricky first left hander of the race which took De Puniet with him when he crashed.
Rossi finished at eleventh after overtaking Marco Melandri and Toni Ellias. After crashing, Rossi was left more than 10 seconds behind Melandri (so he's still good to be able to catch up,huh?! ^.^)
Stoner took the first podium, Pedrosa second, and the third should be Nicky Hayden who's finally overtaken by Colin Edwards at the very last lap, or...perhaps I should say when they almost finished the race. The race has made Dani Pedrosa on the first position of World Championship with 171 points, and Rossi second with 167 points.
I was so disappointed about Rossi and almost turned off the TV...Thank God I didn't do that cause I finally feel proud of him, he managed to catch up racers who were more than 10 seconds in front of him!