MotoGP Catalunya

Another race weekend over, and when it comes to the supposed "premier class" the excitement seemed to be in qualifying rather than the race. Simoncelli eventually pipping Stoner to pole, who then demonstrated his appreciation of the Spanish crowd by waving to them as he wheelied the back straight. I've no doubt that really impressed the Pedrosa fans!

The race; someone won, someone else was second, and another bloke was third. Cal did a good, but lonely job finishing seventh and the only racing we saw was between 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th.

Moto2 was certainly good racing, but that's a product of control engines and tyres. Despite this Bradl is showing his true class, and so is Marquez coming from God knows where to finish second. Bradley wasn't doing too bad till he got hit Tahashi's bike, unfortunately finishing 19th and out of the points. Scott's at last got his name on the score sheet finishing 11th (his first points this season!). Simon was taken out by Sofuoglu and has broken tibula and fibula. Both riders were summoned to race control but weren't able to make it as they were in the medical centre. Simon won't be riding at Silverstone, and judging by other recent race control decisions I would expect them to take some form of action against Keenan. Soon overtaking will be banned, just so that it doesn't become too dangerous.

Talking of which.... Johann Zarco. An inspired last corner move helped him to his first Grand Prix win, only for race control to add a 20 second penalty for "pushing" Terol off the track. This is the same Terol that finished 2nd, or 1st after seasonal adjustments, note finished, didn't crash and still got 20 points. Ok, it was a tough move, even Jezza McWilliams, one of the toughest around, said it was a tough move (he told me on twitter), but a race should be decided on the track, not in the court room. Because someone has a hate campaign against Simoncelli a precedent has been set by race control leaving them no option but to flex their muscles again, or risk confirming that there is a hate campaign against Simoncelli. I think the same will happen with Sofuoglo/Simon, a race control decision will probably punish Soguoglo, one of the most exciting riders in that race. Anyone remember Capirossi/Harada? Capirossi's punishment for blatantly taking out his team mate and championship rival was ...... to become world champion.

And now for the really important stuff - Bel's leapt into the lead,16 points ahead of Noddy, who's 38 points ahead of me. Everyone else, look for yourself, I've done enough typing for one evening.

Next racing. 16th June. Our own Grand Prix at Silverstone. Come on the Brits..