Everyone can have a whinge here about whatever.

Wide awake since 5.30 (cant snooze a baby! ) - looks like I missed most of the 125 action!

Heres hoping for a cracker of a race!

its going to be wet so....
Bstones could be the tyre of choice!

OR

We get a chance to see how much improvement Michelin has really made

Or.....it's gonna be dry. Damn weather, hope it stays either wet or dry.

so glad to see marco up there, rossi and dani will battle this till the end.

dani has had enough he is hungry this season im so impressed

hats of to lorenzo what ever the outcome atleast hes tucking in.

i think its safe to say michelin are back in the game there performances over the 4 races have been pretty solid

ducati 343 kph

1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team ( 44min 8.061 secs
2. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (M) 44min 11.951 secs
3. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team ( 44min 23.989 secs
4. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team (M) 44min 30.555 secs
5. Marco Melandri ITA Ducati Marlboro Team ( 44min 35.018 secs
6. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team (M) 44min 36.430 secs
7. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 44min 37.841 secs
8. Toni Elias SPA Alice Team ( 44min 38.286 secs
9. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP ( 44min 39.501 secs
10. Shinya Nakano JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini ( 44min 44.030 secs
11. Andrea Dovizioso ITA JiR Team Scot MotoGP (M) 44min 44.307 secs
12. James Toseland GBR Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 44min 51.252 secs
13. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP (M) 44min 51.503 secs
14. John Hopkins USA Kawasaki Racing Team ( 44min 53.916 secs
15. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Alice Team ( 44min 54.391 secs
16. Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini ( 44min 58.654 secs
17. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki Racing Team ( 45min 13.654 secs

A typical has been performance there today!

Didn't even watch the race yet. Just went to MOTOGP.com and there is was on the front page. Goddamnit. I guess I should have known better than to snoop around before I watched the race.

Congratulations to rossi. I think lorenzo may be a bigger threat to him than pedrosa for the title unless the honda pneumatic engine advances; Lorenzo's performance today under the circumstances was amazing.

Stoner's hopes for a championship defence now look forlorn; he may still contend in races in hotter conditions on the hard tyres on which he mainly won in the dry last year. Melandri and elias were pretty well as fast as him today on the medium tyres in the cool conditions.

Great race from Rossi. I think he really showed that he has definitely not forgotten how to ride.
Good to see Melandri and Elias getting things back on form.

What the hell happend to CEII?

Michelins seemed to last for most of the race just as fast as Bridgestones at a Bridgestone track.
So much for tyre Advantage.

4races and 4 different winners
We have a heck of a battle shaping up

Well, good race by Rossi and Pedrosa. Thought Stoner would do better.
Excellent effort by Jorge. Good to see Melandri finally getting some pace up.
The kawasaki's are a pile of shit and even though West has done nothing, he's going to take the fall for the factories incompetence.
Suzuki's - same shit as the kawasaki's.
Once honda get's the pneumatic engine sorted they're going to be so hard to beat - Pedrosa especially.

P.s - I wonder who's going to replace West now? I imagine that Melandri will have been given a bit of breathing space.

Max speeds were much higher in the race today. I think it may have been due to a stronger tail wind. This seems to have surprised some teams, who apparently did not adjust the 6th speed ratio accordingly - both Pedrosa and Capirossi declared their engines were revving too high in the long straight.

Rossi had everything right and when it's like that he can still win no problem. I do not think Pedrosa could have won this one from Rossi in any way.

As for Casey, wrong tyre choice - he was slower than in practice. But hey, the lad could smile when he makes a podium, instead of looking like he went to a funeral.

Lorenzo, wonderful resilience on his part and he saved his position in the championship - amazing. He needs to be more careful, and he will be contending this title to the end.

Melandri... I will wait a little before declaring him out of the limbo. Shanghai is a favourable track for both Ducati and Bridgestone (Elias also did well). But it will surely boost his confidence.

Excellent race, same story as last year really. Dani did all that was possible but wasn't quick enough to force a mistake from the Doctor, who did everything right. Lorenzo's hero points double, Hayden disappoints again.

My first post.
Great ride by Rossi and very impressive to set the fastest lap of the race close to the end of it . If he keeps like that, i think he will win the championship.
PS: Excuse my bad english

Good race.

Rossi was dominant in the latter stages, Dani did good to trouble him for a good portion of the race.

Stoner, wtf?!

Are there ant plans to show this on BBC? or did I miss it?

Was on BBC1 this morning.. looked to see if the BBC are going to repeat it but don't think they are. Thank god for eurosport!

nothing at all wrong with your English and yes, it was a very good ride by rossi but i think the title will be between two spaniards TBH

I set the alarm clock at 8.59am, just in time to see lorenzo in the warm up lap when his bike shut down on him. what a guy, I like him more than ever before! he showed so much character, first everyone passes him, then he finds his rythm and fights back again till 4th. great ride for him in his condition.

was so happy to see rossi win again lets hope he can keep it up in the euro round now too!

Boring Boring Boring!





Well I find it funny .... that this race fit the criteria so many declare befitting of a boring race .... and yet


Its shaping up to be a good year though .... there will be so much work being put into not getting a single DNF in that top 4 now.

Pedrosa is looking the goods

Lorenzo .... amazing to recover so many points

Rossi ..... I think this was his first good selection of Bridgestone tyres .... he was strong till the end as Stoner was last year

Stoner ...... I still don't think they are back to their winning ways but meh he's vaguely still in touch.