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In 2008 a MotoGP event was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time on a newly prepared track, and observers noted that the Speedway had hosted motorcycle racing before cars raced there.
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As a result of the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis, MotoGP is undergoing changes in an effort to cut costs.
* 2008: Dunlop drops out of MotoGP.
The only MotoGP team using Dunlop tyres in 2007, Yamaha Tech 3, did not use them in 2008 but switched to Michelin.
He won the 500cc World Championship with Honda in 2001, the MotoGP World Championships ( also with Honda ) in 2002 and 2003, and continued his streak of back-to-back championships by winning the 2004 and 2005 titles after leaving Honda to join Yamaha, before regaining the title in 2008 and retaining it in 2009.
It was thought that the race would return to Indianapolis for on the track configuration that was used for the 2008 race in the MotoGP championship.
The Speedway hosted its first MotoGP event in 2008.
In 2008, the MotoGP series added the oval circuit to its schedule.
The 2008 MotoGP race was the last one on this circuit, as the FIM didn't select the racetrack for the provisional calendar of 2009.
* Casey Stoner, World MotoGP Champion 2007-Grand Prix motorcycle racing ( 1985 -); 2008 Young Australian of the Year.
On September 22, 2006, Hayden signed a two-year agreement that allowed for him to race for and develop with the factory Honda Racing Corporation ( HRC ) team for the 2007 and 2008 MotoGP seasons.
In 2008, Nicky ran his old number 69 since Casey Stoner earned the right to run the number 1 plate after winning the MotoGP title in 2007.
By the middle of 2008 it was strongly suspected by fans, media, and the MotoGP paddock already, and later supported by Hayden's own admission during a press conference that he would be leaving Honda, that Hayden would be joining the Ducati Marlboro Team to ride alongside Casey Stoner for the 2009 MotoGP season.
MotoGP held its first night race at Losail International Circuit in 2008.
Through 2008 and 2009, Dainese has debuted, through its sponsored riders in MotoGP, an airbag suit.
Immediately after Melandri's 3rd place finish in the 2007 USA's MotoGP round, Ducati announced that he would join its factory team alongside Casey Stoner for 2008 and 2009.
An evolutionary update of the GP7 design, Ducati's entry for the 2008 MotoGP World Championship was tested first in February 2007.
He raced for the Kawasaki MotoGP team in 2008, but they dropped him for 2009 due to the global economic crisis and the company's uncompetitive showings.
He is a two-time champion of the British Superbike Championship ( 2003 and 2008 ), a race winner in the Superbike World Championship and a former competitor in MotoGP.
Suzuki struggled to compete in the 2008 MotoGP Championship, with neither Vermeulen or teammate Loris Capirossi able to secure a race victory.
2008 and event
In the 2008 book The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of an American Icon, Smithsonian experts point out that accounts of the event appealed to Americans eager for stories about the revolution and its heroes and heroines.
* Introduction of instant replay in the event of a disputed home run call ( 2008 )
Jouve and colleagues suggested in 2008 that juvenile marine crocodyliforms lived in freshwater environments like modern marine crocodile juveniles, which would have helped them survive where other marine reptiles became extinct ; freshwater environments were not as strongly affected by the K – Pg extinction event as marine environments.
A noise restriction order was responsible for this event moving to the Belgian Circuit Zolder for 2007 and 2008.
Former heavyweight rower Dominic Seiterle is a member of the Canadian national rowing team and won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's 8 + event.
As of 2008, many common rail and unit injection systems already employ new injectors using stacked piezoelectric wafers in lieu of a solenoid, giving finer control of the injection event.
Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival, selecting musicians and artists for the Manhattan event, and performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head.
The ' Clash for Cancer ' match against Melbourne has become an annual event, repeated in 2008 and 2009.
From June 2007 on, data indicated a moderate La Niña event, which strengthened in early 2008 and weakened before the start of 2009 ; the 2007 – 2008 La Niña event was the strongest since the 1988 – 1989 event.
He has been dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, since 2006 and she has accompanied him to several events including the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in February 2007, an American Film Institute event in October 2007, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival held in May, and the 2010 Golden Globes.
Contrary to his usual practice, Conté did not appear on television to mark Tabaski earlier in December 2008, and this sparked renewed speculation, as well as concern about the possibility of violence in the event of his death.
This event marked the beginning of the browser's popularity decline, which led to its discontinuation in September 2008.
The fired rockfall event is mentioned only by Livy ; Polybius is mute on the subject and there is no evidence of carbonized rock at the only two-tier rockfall in the Western Alps, located below the Col de la Traversette ( Mahaney, 2008 ).
Many people enjoy this display, and large crowds flock to see it, with 12, 000 attending the 2007 / 2008 event.
On July 14, 2008, Id Software announced at the 2008 E3 event that they would be publishing Rage through Electronic Arts, and not Id's longtime publisher Activision.
Conference on Computers, Communications and Control ( ICCCC 2008 ), an event dedicated to the Centenary of John Bardeen ( 1908-1991 )
At an event on June 27, 2008 in Unity, New Hampshire, Lynch formally endorsed Barack Obama for President ,.
In 2008, the German magazine sport auto conducted a test for production cars, with the CCX winning the event in a total time of.
* Version 5. 1: production release 27 November 2008 ( event scheduler, partitioning, plugin API, row-based replication, server log tables )
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Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.
In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.
From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.
In 2008, the world's total arable land amounted to 13, 805, 153 km², whereas 48, 836, 976 km² was classified as " agricultural land.
A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.
To try to answer this question more definitely, a randomized double-blind study was started in September 2008 and was completed in March 2010.
For this reason, Armenia was virtually unaffected by the Liquidity crisis of September 2008.
It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.
In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power < ref >
As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.
In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.
The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.
It replaces the " sheaves of wheat " design, and was minted until 2008.
On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.
The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.
It was not until June 6, 2008 that Japan formally recognised the Ainu as an indigenous group ( see Official Recognition, below ).
On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.
Its main building was named Albertus Magnus Hall in 2008.
In 2008 the skeleton of Queen Eadgyth, granddaughter of Alfred the Great was found in Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany.
In December 2008, HDMS Absalon was involved in the rescue of putative Somali pirates 90 miles off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.
The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).
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