Kallio wins, Doni Finish 19th

Pembalap Finlandia, Mika Kallio memperbesar peluang meraih gelar juara kelas 250 cc dengan kemenangan di  Inggris, Minggu (22/6). Dalam lomba di Sirkuit Donington Park ini, Kallio mencatat waktu 42 menit 14.410 detik. Ia mengatasi pesaing terdekatnya dari Italia, Marco Simoncelli yang terpaut 0,353 detik.

Posisi ketiga ditempati oleh pembalap asal Spanyol, Alvaro Bautista. Pembalap Mapfre Aspar Team ini terpaut 1,273 detik di belakang Kallio. Pembalap asal Indonesia yang memperkuat tim Yamaha Pertamina, Doni Tata Pradita masuk finis di urutan ke-19. Ia terpaut satu lap di belakang Kallio. Doni mencatat waktu tempuh 43 menit 0,6332 detik dengan kecepatan rata-rata 145,593 kilometer per jam.

Hasil GP Inggris kelas 250 cc, Minggu:
1. Mika Kallio (FIN), Red Bull KTM 250, 42'14.410
2. Marco Simoncelli (ITA), Metis Gilera, + 0.353
3. Alvaro Bautista (SPA), Mapfre Aspar Team, + 1.237
4. Hector Barbera (SPA), Team Toth Aprilia, + 8.875
5. T. Luthi (SWI), Emmi - Caffe Latte, + 11.359
6. Hiroshi Aoyama (JPN), Red Bull KTM 250, + 16.124
7. Alex Debon (SPA), Lotus Aprilia, + 16.136
8. Julian Simon (SPA), Repsol KTM 250cc, + 18.007
9. Yuki Takahashi (JPN), JiR Team Scot 250, + 33.271
10. Aleix Espargaro (SPA), Lotus Aprilia, + 49.681
11. Aleix Espargaro (ITA), Metis Gilera, + 52.534
12. Karel Abraham (CZE), Cardion AB Motoracing, + 55.311
13. Lukas Pesek (CZE), Auto Kelly - CP, + 57.399
14. Manuel Poggiali (RSM), Campetella Racing, + 57.641
15. Hector Faubel (SPA), Mapfre Aspar Team, + 1'04.329
16. Ratthapark Wilairot (THA), Thai Honda PTT SAG, + 1'06.156
17. Fabrizio Lai (ITA), Campetella Racing, + 1'15.812
18. R. Gomez (SPA), Blusens Aprilia, 1 Lap
19. Doni Tata Pradita (INA), Yamaha Pertamina Indonesia, 1 Lap

Klasemen sementara:
1. Mika Kallio (FIN), Red Bull KTM 250, 131
2. Marco Simoncelli (ITA), Metis Gilera, 123
3. Alex Debon (SPA), Lotus Aprilia, 101
4. Mattia Pasini (ITA), Polaris World, 98
5. Hector Barbera (SPA), Team Toth Aprilia, 82
6. Hiroshi Aoyama (JPN), Red Bull KTM 250, 80
7. Alvaro Bautista (SPA), Mapfre Aspar Team, 77
8. Yuki Takahashi (JPN), JiR Team Scot 250, 70
9. Thomas Luthi (SWI), Emmi - Caffe Latte, 57
10. Julian Simon (SPA), Repsol KTM 250cc, 51
11. Aleix Espargaro (SPA), Lotus Aprilia, 46
12. Aleix Espargaro (ITA), Metis Gilera, 39
13. Hector Faubel (SPA), Mapfre Aspar Team, 34
14. Ratthapark Wilairot (THA), Thai Honda PTT SAG, 30
15. Karel Abraham (CZE), Cardion AB Motoracing, 25
16. Lukas Pesek (CZE), Auto Kelly - CP, 21
17. Manuel Poggiali (RSM), Campetella Racing, 16
18. Alex Baldolini (ITA), Matteoni Racing, 16
19. Fabrizio Lai (ITA), Campetella Racing, 9
20. Eugene Laverty (IRL), Blusens Aprilia, 7
21. Federico Sando (ITA), Zongshen Team of China, 2
22. Manuel Hernandez (SPA), Blusens Aprilia, 2
23. Imre Toth (HUN), Team Toth Aprilia, 2
24. Doni Tata Pradita (INA Yamaha Pertamina Indonesia

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Kallio: Goodbye KTM, MotoGP Welcome

This weekend, Mika Kallio will end its action in the 250cc class of motorcycle racing with KTM team while diving last race at Valencia GP. Because the next season he has gone up to the event's most prestigious class, the MotoGP.

After six years of wrestling in the class (250cc), and 12-time champions and 22 podium finishes, Kallio had to say goodbye to KTM. Finnish rider will join the satellite Ducati team, Pramac Racing. The 25-year-old rider will duet with the status of rookie Niccolo Canepa.

"Mika has been our shelter under the wing since his start in the grand prix. Ranks continues to rise and as a team, we get together to celebrate their first win. We are fighting hard to win the title, in both the 125cc and 250cc. This is the time great and wonderful, "said KTM CEO Stefan Pierer.

"Mika has a great talent in this sport and we always say that we support the course, not only with our motors, but also one day when he got a good opportunity to move to MotoGP. Well, the time has come. It would be very nice to be see him race there, and we hope he fared well, "said Pierer.

Indeed, the race in the MotoGP class is the dream of every rider. Only, Kallio not hasty to go it. He first think carefully, before finally deciding to go up a class.

"MotoGP Class is the most prestigious, and I took a chance after talking to my team and to KTM, and after thinking carefully about this decision. We've won some races, and became a serious competitor in the 125 and 250cc classes," says Kallio.

"I will always remember the great times we had together, and our early success when we surprised fans and the team in two categories," he added.

2002, Kallio making his debut at the grand prix with Honda Red Devil. In mid 2003, he refused application Ajo Motorsports team and decided to join the KTM.

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Kallio So Favorites Nobel title "Rookie of the Year"

Casey Stoner and Valentino Rossi is still the favorites to win the 2009 MotoGP season. However, for the rookie category, Mika Kallio in the list of top ranking as the results showed in the recent tests at Jerez this weekend.

When pre-season test on Sunday (29 / 3), Kallio finished in sixth place with a record time of 1 minute 40.149 seconds. Finnish rider is indeed lagging 1.5 seconds of Stoner, who became the fastest and are entitled to a prize BMW sports car, but he just closed to within 0.4 seconds behind Loris Capirossi.

That is, Kallio is the second best Ducati rider Stoner and occupy the highest ranking for the satellite team. This makes Kallio believed to have a significant opportunity to snatch the title 'rookie of the year ", although that assumption is still too early for new real race begins April 12.

"Between yesterday and this morning, we have studied the situation of the track and motor. Together with the director of my technique, Fabiano Sterlacchini, we have found a positive and almost perfectly on the bike," says Kallio, a former 125 and 250cc class champion along with KTM team.

"I'm still losing too much time in the last sector although it could finish in a better position. We've done a good job and I am sure we can keep it on the first series race in Qatar," he added.

Meanwhile, two other rookie in the class of 2009 achieved the primary outcome that was not too good on these recent tests. Team Scot Honda rider, Yuki Takahashi, 0.6 seconds slower and was in position 14 while fellow Kallio in the Pramac team, Niccolo Canepa, must be satisfied in the order of 18 and left 1.4 seconds from Kallio.

2009 MotoGP series premiere this season will take place in Qatar, April 12. Race at the Losail Circuit will take place at night.

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Good performance Kallio Ducati Create Proud

Mika Kallio showed pretty good performance in the early summer of 2009. Although rookie status, the Finnish rider able to compete with several experienced riders in the MotoGP race.

This makes the Ducati team principal, Livio Suppo, very proud. No doubt, the praise rolled from the mouth of an admitted Suppo, great riders Kallio and deservedly at the start of the season he was nominated for winning the title of "Rookie of the Year".

In two series premiere that has acted, Kallio who strengthens Pramac team finished eighth. Not only that, he also put himself in position two of the fastest for Ducati, behind the rider's number one Italian team, Casey Stoner.

"He's a rookie so do not get pressure. With a good qualifying and a good start anyway, he might be in front of Marco Melandri (sixth)," said Suppo.

If Kallio look good even if only strengthen the Ducati satellite team, the opposite actually happened to his teammate, Niccolo Canepa, because it is still very difficult to adapt. In fact, Nicky Hayden, who became his teammate Stoner also not been able to show good performances, including an accident in Qatar and Motegi.

Nevertheless, Suppo sure, the results obtained will pump Kallio and Canepa Hayden confidence to get up.

"Kallio much help because she will gush Ducati rider, other riders to quickly understand the bike did not feel so foreign anymore," said Suppo.

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Kallio Absent due to injury at Laguna Seca

Mika Kallio will miss the seventh series of MotoGP this weekend at Laguna Seca, United States. Because the hand injury which membekapnya when she appeared in last week's Dutch Grand Prix rider in the Pramac Racing is made ​​have not been able to ride his bike again.

At Circuit Assen, the Netherlands, Kallio who are in the middle row to appear aggressive to compete with other racers. Unfortunately, when entering the last lap, he fell so that the ring finger on his left hand badly injured (till bony) because of friction after the crushed bike.

In order for the wound on his finger can heal quickly, it needs a skin graft. This will be done in the next few weeks.

If you want to push yourself, Kallio could actually perform at Laguna Seca. However, because the risk of infection is very high, the Finnish rider is absent in the U.S. and he is expected to be fit again when she appeared at the Sachsenring on July 19.

"I am very excited to race at Laguna Seca, but I guess fate wanted this to happen so I had to forget about it. It's sad," says Kallio.

"We made this decision together with the managers Pramac Racing and I think this is the best solution. Laguna may be a new circuit which I have learned. Therefore, it is very risky if I perform there with a lack of good physical condition," added the rider that now ranked 15 standings with a total of 26 points.

"I'll try to be in the best condition when she appeared at the Sachsenring, which is one of my favorite circuits in MotoGP."

Even without Kallio, Pramac has decided not to seek a replacement rider on Sunday (5 / 7). Thus, Niccolo Canepa who now occupies the 17th position with a total of 12 points, will be the sole rider in the team.

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sure can show their best ability

Mika Kallio GP just absent in the United States two weeks ago. This happened because he was still with injuries caused by falling on his finger towards the finish in Assen, the Netherlands, on 27 June.

This weekend, Pramac Ducati rider is determined to perform at the German GP. Although his condition has not recovered 100 percent, but the Finnish man sure can show their best ability in the path of the Sachsenring circuit.

"Indeed, this seems a bit less good. But now the pain has begun to diminish and better," he said. "Not too bad for racing. If I feel too sick, it needs an injection of pain relievers. Of course, better if without this (the injection, red), but it all depends on the circumstances."

Kallio added, the appearance in the qualifying round will determine their performance. If at that phase (qualification) he can look good, then when the race later everything would go fine.

"I know, this weekend becomes a difficult moment for us. The finger is not very good, so if the qualification lasts less good then it can be ascertained during the race we will have to appear aggressive."

Although rookie status, Kallio showed promising performance for reaping the results are satisfactory. He almost always makes the top 10, before finally losing momentum in Assen, when competing for six positions.

After the accident that made him an injury, Kallio claimed can still perform optimally in the rest of the season.

"Earlier this season is pretty good, but then we faced some problems and had a little trouble with the motor setting," says Kallio.

"That's why the outcome is less good. But now I think we're back. As we see in Assen, when everything is going well. The speed and time records and good consistent laps during the race."

When the show in Assen, Kallio crashed near the finish, so the ring finger of his left hand badly injured (till bony) due to friction after his bike crushed. In order for the wound on his finger can heal quickly, it needs a skin graft.

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