Italian legend Valentino Rossi won the opening race of the 2015 MotoGP season in a thrilling finish in Qatar.
Yamaha’s Rossi, a seven-time MotoGP champion, claimed his 109th Grand Prix victory after the 36-year-old held off Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso.
Andrea Iannone on the Ducati made it an all-Italian podium, with Spain’s two-time defending champion Marc Marquez back in fifth place.
Britons Cal Crutchlow and Bradley Smith came seventh and eighth respectively.
Marquez won the opening 10 races in 2014 but made a dreadful start to the new season as he was forced off the track and slipped to the back of the field.
Qatar MotoGP result:
1. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha
2. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati
3. Andrea Iannone (Ita) Ducati
4. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Yamaha
5. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda
6. Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Honda
7. Cal Crutchlow (GB) Honda
8. Bradley Smith (GB) Yamaha
9. Pol Espargaro (Spa) Yamaha
10. Yonny Hernandez (Col) Ducati
11. Aleix Espargaro (Spa) Suzuki
12. Danilo Petrucci (Ita) Ducati
13. Scott Redding (GB) Honda
14. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Suzuki
15. Hector Barbera (Spa) Ducati…
La leyenda del motociclismno Mundial el Italiano Valentino Rossi se impuso en la priemra carrera de la temporada de Moto GP, disputada en Qatar,…
Rossi en Yamaha 7 veces Campeon del Mundo logro su triunfo 109 imponiendose al veterano de 39 años Andrea Dovizioso en ducati…el podium lo completo otro Italiano Andrea Iannone..Marc Marquez temrino en quinto lugar y el Colombiano Yonny Hernandez, decimo.