Moto GP Season Finale, NASCAR in Phoenix

Moto GP Ends In Valencia
Jorge Lorenzo has already locked up the world championship, but there still is one race left as Moto GP ends at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia. Fellow Spaniard Dani Pedrosa will finish second in the standings and starts from pole tomorrow. This will be the final grand prix of Casey Stoner's career as the 27 year old Australian is set to retire. A two-time world champion, Stoner won the last race at Australia one final time. This season was marred by an injury that caused Stoner to miss three races. Lorenzo and Stoner join Pedrosa on the front row.

This will also be Valentino Rossi's final race with Ducati after two tough seasons for the Italian manufacture. He is set to return to Yamaha and team with Lorenzo. Rossi starts eleventh. Nicky Hayden out qualified his teammate for Valencia and will roll off from seventh. Hayden was fastest in a wet Friday practice. Ben Spies' season will end a little earlier then the rest of the Moto GP riders. After separating his shoulder in Malaysia, Spies missed the Australian round and will sit out Valencia as well. The 2009 World Superbike Champion will be leaving the factory Yamaha team for Pramac Racing, a Ducati satellite team.

NASCAR In Phoenix
With two races to go, Jimmie Johnson leads Brad Keselowski by seven points. Mathmatically, eight other drivers are still alive for the title. Clint Bowyer trails by thirty-six points, Kasey Kahne by fifty-eight, Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon by seventy-two, Denny Hamlin by seventy-three, Martin Truex Jr. and Tony Stewart by eighty and Greg Biffle by eighty-three points.

Kyle Busch won the pole for tomorrow's race, while Keselowski starts fourteenth and Johnson twenty-fourth. In March, Denny Hamlin beat Kevin Harvick, Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski for the win. Keselowski's fifth in the spring was his first Cup finish better than fifteen at Phoenix, while Johnson has won at the track four times, three times in the fall.