Monday, 13 June 2011

Silverstone MotoGP - No diving on the shallow end

Should London not be entirely ready for the Olympic swimming events in 2013 I think Silverstone could be offered as a substitute. It wasn't that long ago that I was taking the michael out of Miller for having a water feature, we've topped that by turning the whole race track into a water feature. Makes for bloody good racing though!


Unless you're name's Cal Crutchlow. Collar bone broken in four places, and then you see your team mate finish on the podium, one week after he broke his collar bone. Perhaps this means next time out Cal's going to be on the podium, who knows.


Colin entertained the troops on Saturday night, if you fancy a laugh watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdqTMPwjqR8

As for the race, Stoner dominated in style and truly deserved the win, especially when some of the best riders in the world either crashed (Lorenzo, Simoncelli & Spies to name three), or couldn't find the pace (Rossi). Dovi got second, also well deserved, and third.... Colin Edwards,  complete with plated collar bone and muscles seperated from ribs (apparently more painful than the collar bone).


Moto2 was far too exciting to describe, but I'll try anyway. Scott started really well, in-fact he lead for a while, but started to drop back. Bradl demonstrated why he should be World Champion this year. Apparently he can't ride in the rain according to the Eurosport's German commentary team. For someone who can't ride in the rain he still managed to finished in front of everyone else, proving that he can swim in the deep end. And then there was Bradley. He couldn't really have qualified any worse if he'd stayed at home. 28th. He finished 2nd. Herve Poncheral (Tech 3 Tea Boss) has probably never experienced such lows and highs in one week, In case you don't know he's team boss of Colin Edwards, Cal Crutchlow and Bradley Smith.


Yonny Hernandez did well (9th) considering his brother was meant to be riding this weekend, but didn't get a visa and was turned away by Customs. He should have tried speaking Polish or covering himself with boot polish (that's polish, not Polish).


Haven't seen all the WSB yet, so I won't comment yet.



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