Round 4 - Le Mans

Bonjour Le Mans!! The bickering amongst the top boys has carried on which is great for us. Apparently a couple of them went to the safety commission to whine about Super Sic's riding. Even Tiger Toni went along, I assume to ensure he gets lapped safely.

Stacey or should I say Rocky arrived at Le Mans feeling that the local French fans didn't dislike him enough, so he hatched a cunning 5000 Euros plan. We all witnessed what that was so I think it's probably mission accomplished!

The main event now. No one had anything for Balboa all weekend, Dani stayed with him for 10 laps until he fell into the clutches of the Super Sic. Today he was not so Super in all honesty. I personally don't think he's done anything wrong until today. The move he pulled was ambitious, shall we say and left fragile Dani with a broken right collarbone, there is nothing 'humerus' about that. The punishment however was puzzling, I can't remember anyone being punished in that way, for what was a racing incident, I have a short memory though....

Moving on to the home and ladies favourite RDP. The question for me was could he control his urges to highside and give the partisan crowd something to get Randy about. The short answer was no. The long answer was also no.

It was not a successful for race Tech 3. Both riders where keen to taste good results on the teams home soil. Unfortunately all they tasted was in fact, home soil. . . Cal's first crash on a prototype machine in dry conditions was followed by a rare Colin crash, who remounted to finish 13th.

A battle had emerged at the rear of the field. Tiger Toni managed to beat one legged Alvaro, while Caprex had the same for lunch as the Tech 3 boys, French soil. All I can say about Barbera, Mr Brno and Aoyama is that they finished.

I have to say I am a little disappointed with Ben Spies, as I'm sure he is himself. He has quite possibly the most boring Twitter feed (@BenSpies11) there is, its even worse than mine! Maybe he should update his own timeline, yes, I think that would help. Oh and I expected more from him this season.

Back to the battle at the front. Dull Dovi was putting in a strong performance battling with Jorge. Vale was catching the pussy's and I'm sure he was smiling when he passed the bike that he built. Dovi's Honda took 2nd and Vale went on to claim his first podium on board the Ducati. Super Sic recovered to 5th after his trip through the pitlane.

To sum up, all the handbags at dawn in MotoGp are keeping it all very absorbing, so I say 'Viva la Figa'! WLF

Au revoir!!

Round 3 - Estoril

So as we move on from the drama of Jerez and onto Estoril, wasn't exactly a classic was it? In the days before the main event the Stacey/Vale episode still rumbled on until another war of words started.... This time between the two extremes of the MotoGP hair scale. Gorgeous George had his hair clippers out and threatened to give Marco a crew cut if ever went near him on the track again. Marco responded saying 'Ask the public what they think'?? I assume that's what was said, I only caught the pictures ...

On to the race now and the only lap that was truly eventful was the first. After the first turn Marco and Stacey teamed up to do some synchronized high siding, both where fortunate to stay on. Later in the lap Marco changed partners and was lost the timing, as he and Barbera had huge highsides seconds apart and ended in the gravel.

Messrs Hayden and De Puniet had uneventful races on the Ducati's, and our own Cal Crutchlow fresh from putting everyone off there lunch with stories of arm draining, finished a commendable 8th on track he'd never graced. His team mate Colin also had a is decent race, circulating at pace to 6th.

Valentino picked up a stalker and a thief in the form of Dull Dovi. He stalked him around and round Estoril and then mugged him at the finish line, the cheeky scamp. History repeated itself in a bad way for Vale.

No one welcomed back Alvaro Bautista more than 'Tiger' Toni Elias. He was hopeful that he might not finish this race last and his wishes were granted, in fact he also beat Caprex to the flag.

Onto to the podium positions now. Stacey was upset about losing to front two, through no fault of his own, obviously. It's a race and people should simply not get in his way. A mysterious back problem added to his woes and 3rd was all he could manage. I expected a 'great' battle between to two Spaniards, but it never materialised and we had to settle with one overtake for the win. Ickle Dani looked mighty relieved and tried to force out a smile, with a little coaxing from Alberto.

All in all it was wasn't the best race I've ever seen, nor the worst.