Well well well..... Jerez, I don't really know where to start?? Just kidding, of course I do! The fire has well and truly ignited between you know who!. Just when I was getting excited that #VR46 could romp to his first victory on board the Ducati, he lost the front and slid down down the asphalt. Unfortunately Stacey got in the way, and trapped poor Vale under his own bike! It seemed from the outside that if you weren't Spanish or Valentino Rossi, the local marshall's were a little 'casual' shall we say. After the clash at turn one, the locals only had eyes for one rider and quite rightly helped the stricken Vale from under his machine, patted him on the back and sent him on his merry way. At which point Stacey was throwing his toys from his Honda asking for a push, but alas, it was too late, his machine had deceased. He made his feelings quite clear on what he thought. He gave the marshall's a 'fook you' sign and Vale a nice little round of applause. After the race, was where Stacey managed to lose anyone who was a borderline fan. Vale went straight into the HRC garage to apologise to Stacey, at which point he questioned Vale's talent.......silly boy.
Meanwhile there was a race going on, in which a lot of riders where struggling to stay on there mounts. Fresh from undressing on the grid because he was 'too ott' , Marco Simoncelli showed his racing talent by storming to an early lead until.......Toby Moody doomed him. In Toby's own words he would say 'How do I do it'. As tyres disintegrated, more was to follow. After receiving high praise from @MotoGpJules for staying aboard what looked like a bucking bronco, Karel Abraham suffered the same fate as poor Marco. He picked himself up but was now riding without wings or wing.
Things settled down for a couple of laps and it looked like it was going to be a Yamaha 1-2 until No.11, Mr Spies threw it up the road. This had gifted The Texas Tornado what looked like an unlikely podium at the start of the weekend. Colin had fulfilled my wishes. He had a trivial off in practice, which has re-affirmed to me that he is actually trying. Unfortunately a rather unusual technical problem stopped him in his tracks, which in his own words 'Sucks dogs testicles'. Very well put. No.69 Nicky Hayden was lying in wait to take Ducati's first podium this season. It had been so long since he'd been up there he looked a tad disorientated.
Wild boy, but I'm not sure what for, John 'Hopper' Hopkins had a steady ride aboard the one and only Suzuki. Maybe Suzuki's theme tune for the season should be something from Chesney Hawkes? .....No? Twas just a thought. With all this mayhem happening I was thinking how on earth had RDP managed not to get Randy. Well, he did, he fell off. And because he's French he didn't get much help!
Celebrity gossip for the weekend is the fact that Tiger Toni likes to ride a chopper, allegedly. Seems it's not an easy thing to achieve in MotoGp. Too many grid girls?? I not sure how long this will go on until he's asks for what he had last year. And I would probably agree that he would go faster on a chopper.
Have you noticed I haven't mentioned the two Spanairds Gorgeous George (from Suzi Perry, not me) and Dani Pedrosa. Well I did it intentionally. Yes they rode well, but anyone who didn't crash was in for a result. In fact, even if you did crash a decent result was possible!!. If I have missed anyone out, there probably not worth mentioning... Oh Aoyama had a good race!
So its normal service resumed for Stacey, Dani is off for surgery now, so good luck to him, and Marco, please, can you get at least a trim??
