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Henrik did you see Stoner going through T1 in Q?

OMG...does he even use TC?

Racer X you watching the race tomorrow?

Q worked out pretty much like I thought...I see the JT decided to retire from MotoGP a race early.

I can tell you Stoner was fucking amazing in the qualifying!!!! I have seen him on a number of tracks before, but never have I seen this much determination. Seriously impressive stuff. Either he has nothing in his head, or he has about the biggest balls ever!

Then he went and threw it away in the warm up lap....

I will get back to write some more later, and post a bunch of photos I took over the weekend.

Thanks Henrik...too bad for Casey...but it was great end to the year...the 250cc race was freaking awesome as well.

How about that Ben Spies...I can't wait to see Simoncelli and Bautista next year....I'm really wondering what Loris and some of the other elder statesman are going to do with this crop of rookies.

Indeed, the fight between Aoyama and Simoncelli was great until Aoyama messed up his entry to T1 (incidentally, we were just in the inside of T1 for most of the race). Then Simoncelli messed up. We saw him get on the gas a bit too much exiting T1, and he never really regained control in to T2, and then lost the front.

Now the Ben was extremely impressive. He had a solid race, took time to learn things, and was steadily making up positions. It was fun to watch him in the qualifying as well, as he would often follow Rossi around the track.

Oh, and the 125 race probaly the best of the day. Being there at T1 it was great seeing come in maybed 4 bikes wide each lap.

yeah, spies was good the way he started to make more progress once everyone's tyres started to go off... you'd expect it to be the other way around with a rookie to the series. impressive!

nice ride from pedrosa too... but a weird moment for stoner... one of the first things one of our nob-end commentators, greg rust, said, was something like "infront of 100 thousand people, stoner has dropped it on the warmup lap!?!" lol what a narcisistic fkwit... and how many millions on tele, nob-end? lol

Stoner's crash reminds me of Roberto Guerrero's parade lap crash from pole during the 92 Indy 500!