| MUMBAI:
Ten Sports continues its comprehensive coverage of the 2006 MotoGP series when
it brings live coverage of round 15 in Japan this weekend.
The Championship
is hotting up as it heads to the land of the rising sun with five times World
Champion, Valentino Rossi just 21 points behind Nicky Hayden who leads this year's
championship race.
Hayden looked to have an
unassailable lead just a few races ago but the reigning champion has been gradually
narrowing the gap and has now moved into second place in the standings on 204
points with Hayden on 225 points.
Both Marco Melandri and Dani Pedrosa
are a further 11 points back and still have an outside chance of claiming the
title with three races to go.
The 4.8KM Motegi circuit
in Japan is one of the most modern track in the championship and also one of the
most challenging as Rossi found out last year when he crashed out of the race.
A repeat of that and he can write off his hopes of claiming a sixth straight World
Title.
The action gets underway at 7:15 am live on Ten Sports. | 
