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944BLOKE · **Posted:** Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:22 pm

Wow! What a start to the new season.stoner carried on from where heleft off but maybe some new challengers in there eh?Rossi never gives up does he? Tyres seemed to play a big part today. Toseland showing some promise for the rest of the season.

thegumeister · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:06 am

Very impressed with Toseland, the fact he beat Colin, roll on Portugal so he gets the 2008 engine, some strange results further down field, possibly due to night race?

Siggy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:21 am

Great race. But what about the 2 brits in the 125 race

thegumeister · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:29 pm

I haven't got sky anymore so watched on BBC 3 where the barstewards only show the main event, heard on the intro that Brad had pole and engine failure but know no more

Siggy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:45 pm

Bradley Smith started from pole, Scott Redding was on the front row for his debut and Danny Webb fifth on the grid,

Bradley finished 15th (IIRC) had a steering damper brake after a couple of laps.
Scott was 5th
Danny 6th

Apollo13 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:40 am

Paul, if you can watch BBC3 (freeview) then you could have caught the 125/250 races as well - they were on BBCi from about 4:30pm. Official pictures and commentary by the MotoGP.com web-cast commentators - but to me that's a blessing - I'd choose them any day over Charlie Cox and his inane Aussie catchphrase laden ramblings. "The paperwork's gonne be hell" etc. Nice to have commentators actually watching what's going on!!

Bradley's steering damper fell off at the point where it attaches to the chassis - hell of a wobble when it first happened under heavy braking, hence he fell back. Most would have pitted, but fair play to him for continuing. Someone needs to have a word with the mechanics though.

The engine failure was in warm-up - it siezed on him. Add to that the two crashes over the weekend and it was a rough, but quick weekend for the ginger avenger!

Little Scott was awesome - podium looked odds on at one point, but he got rather mugged at the end. Boy's got a future based on that showing.

George

Siggy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:10 pm

Apollo13 wrote:

Bradley's steering damper fell off at the point where it attaches to the chassis - hell of a wobble when it first happened under heavy braking, hence he fell back. Most would have pitted, but fair play to him for continuing. Someone needs to have a word with the mechanics though.

George

I think it was caused by the number of times he had crashed that weekend.

But yes well done for racing on.

thegumeister · **Posted:** Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:03 pm

Cheers George never gave BBCi a thought, will check it out in future, totally agree about Cox, I've just got rid of the Sat TV where the Eurosport coverage is 2nd to none, Mr's Moody and Ryder are the Murray Walkers of GP racing, passionate, knowledgeable and entertaining

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