What a great race today!

Jorge Lorenzo wins.

I havn’t see such a good race at the front for a while, that was awesome. Valentino had a superb start as did a bunch of other riders, partcicularly Dani Pedrosa who eventually finished 3rd after giving Rossi a run for his money towards the end. Jorge was mighty and stayed with the pack until his time came to make a move on Rossi, he managed to pull a gap for a while Rossi and Pedrosa had a battle, Rossi started closing back in on Lorenzo but to little and tto late.

Casey Stoner went backwards at the start struggling with what seemed to be his tyres, he eventually fought back and passed De Angelis towards the end to take 4th place. Britains James Toseland had a good race and finished ahead of his team mate Colin Edwards in 9th.

The official results are:

1. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team 43min 47.238 sec

2. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team 43min 48.542 sec

3. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 43min 51.001 sec

4. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 43min 52.929 sec

5. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team 43min 56.445 sec

6. Marco Melandri ITA Hayate Racing Team 44min 17.793 sec

7. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 44min 19.994 sec

8. Mika Kallio FIN Pramac Racing 44min 26.654 sec

9. James Toseland GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 44min 30.344 sec

10. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 44min 30.483 sec

11. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP 44min 32.072 sec

12. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 44min 33.778 sec

13. Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini 44min 40.763 sec

14. Niccolo Canepa ITA Pramac Racing 45min 9.042 sec

15. Toni Elias SPA San Carlo Honda Gresini 44min 25.681 sec

DNF:

Yuki Takahashi JPN Scot Racing Team MotoGP Turn 1

Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro Team Turn 1

Sete Gibernau SPA Grupo Francisco Hernando Lap 14

See you soon, kushtee.

Jorge Lorenzo

By masterclass I am of course referring to Valentino Rossi, there are 2 groups in MotoGP, Vale and the rest. Yes I hear you “Valentino Rossi didn’t win” and I know BUT, yes theres a but…

The pace of the Ducati is mighty and with the straight blasts on the losail circuit the only guy that could half hang with Stoner on the day was Rossi, see where I’m going with this, even from the start you could see the Ducati power, and yes, I love Ducati’s, alot, but, yes another but, put Stoner on another bike and he’ll  be back with the has been’s like Gibernau etc etc. The Ducati just seems to suit him sooooo much, and no, I’m not taking anything away from Stoner, he’s a cracking, neigh awesome rider and I wish him all the luck for the rest of the season.

So, we’ll have to see I suppose, Losail just seemed to suit the Stoner Ducati package, I’m sure there will be other circuits that are coming up very soon that will also but I’m gonna put my money where my mouth is and say “Stoner will not be World Champ”.

Did you see the move that D’Angelis put on Pedrosa, jeex, nearly clean took his front wheel out, I hope one of Pedrosas heavies paid a visit a few garages down, if not drop me a line Dani.

So, there we have it, the 1st one done and dusted, all be it a day late, cracking race for the 3rd, 4th, 5th etc etc placed guys, at the end of they day they couldnt hang.

See you soon.

p.s if you don’t agree, leave me a message.

kushtee.

The Moto GP season kicks off this weekend in Qatar, the normal suspects are up the front, Stoner, Rossi & Lorenzon but there is also a bit of a shakeup towards the back of the grid. Former World Champ Nicky Hayden had a crash while trying to improve on his qualy position of 16th, someone else who seems to struggle with the Ducati.

Sete Gibernau makes his returm to Moto GP and is making his debut from a lowly 17th position.

There has alse been development with the Moto2 calss which will replace the 250cc bikes with a single engine manufacturer, sounds good so keep your eyes out for that.

Looks like its going to be a bit of a runaway race for the 4 or 5 front runners, we’ll have to see I suppose,  whatever Im really looking forward to it.

Eeasy now.