Rossi's incredible win at Germany

World champion Valentino Rossi won a fantastic four-way scrap to take victory in the German MotoGP race.

The Italian held off the challenges of fellow countryman Marco Melandri, American Nicky Hayden and Spaniard Dani Pedrosa to take the win in front of 93,748 spectators at the Sachsenring.

Rossi had started the race in 10th on the Camel Yamaha but cut his way through the field to take the lead on the 13th of 30 laps and was able to keep Melandri's Fortuna Honda and the Repsol Hondas of Hayden and Pedrosa behind him.

Melandri grabbed the lead with three laps to go into turn one but Rossi was back in front later in the same lap and held his advantage to the chequered flag for his fourth race win of the season.

"That was an unbelievable race for me and my team. The first thing I have to say is 'sorry' to my M1 because last night was the first time in our relationship that I ever doubted her! But she was true to me once again and for this I owe a huge thank you to Jeremy and all my mechanics and engineers." Rossi said after the race.

"Last night I didn't think I could win this race but we made a change in the morning warm-up and then again before the race in the afternoon and today my M1 flew. In some parts of the track it was very, very fast. We also did a great job together with Michelin and at the start I realised that my rhythm was good enough to battle for the win." The Doctor add.

Rossi, who show Marco Materazzi's jeresy on podium and said,"Italy became World Champions in the football last weekend and I won today; Germany is a good country for us!"

However, being Rossi's team-mate can be the best or worst job in motorcycle racing - the best if you can compare favourable to one of the greatest riders of all time, and the worst when he makes you look ordinary on the same machinery.


Unfortunately for Rossi and his team-mate Colin Edwards had suffered severe handling problems during qualifying, leaving Rossi eleventh and Edwards 15th on the grid, the Italian "pulled out his 700th miracle" to take a thrilling win while Edwards crept home in twelfth, having lost almost one second a lap to his team-mate.

"What can I say? I guess I'm just slow around here," shrugged the Texan. "The guys worked their butts off all weekend trying to give me something but we simply couldn't get the bike working and I never had the pace.

It looked like Valentino was in the same situation but today he pulled out something like his 700th miracle and you can only take your hat off to a great champion."