After reclaiming the world title in 2008, Valentino Rossi will be looking for early assertion in his battle against Casey Stoner as the MotoGP season opens in Qatar.<\/p>\n
Qatar stages the first race of 2009\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0Monday morning (EST) under floodlights at the Losail International Circuit, the first of 17 round to decide who will be king of this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s premier motorcycle racing class.<\/p>\n
And the Rossi- Stoner rivalry will be head-on from race one, in which\u00c2\u00a0Rossi will be chasing his first MotoGP race victory after sunset. The Fiat Yamaha rider finished fifth behind Stoner in the corresponding race last year,\u00c2\u00a0one of only two races in which\u00c2\u00a0he finished off the podium for the year…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After reclaiming the world title in 2008, Valentino Rossi will be looking for early assertion in his battle against Casey Stoner as the MotoGP season opens in Qatar. Qatar stages the first race of 2009\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0Monday morning (EST) under floodlights at the Losail International Circuit, the first of 17 round to decide who will be king […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}