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Thoughts From The Obsessed

Sportbike rider and MotoGP fanatic, Kristen, spews her opinions, ideas and spin on current happenings in MotoGP racing and the sportbike community. Warning: The possibility exists that some of these posts will have been written while under the influence of alcohol. Kristen has, on rare occasions (pfft!), been known to get hammered and lose all filtering ability between her brain and mouth (or fingers).

Guest write-ups, comments, fan mail and even hate mail are always welcome - email them to Kristen - they will be posted, unless you specifically request for them not to be... in which case they will be posted anyway.

 

A fond farewell to the 2008 season

October 26, 2008

This afternoon's race at Valencia marked the end of the 2008 MotoGP season, and yet another World Championship title for Valentino Rossi. Casey Stoner ran away with the event today, with Dani Pedrosa, a not-so-close second, and Vale closing out the trio de podium.

There were no Hail Mary laps, no spectacular shoot-outs, no heroes and no tragedys. Everyone seemed to be on their best behavior. Nick and Dovisioso mixed it up a few times, and The Doctor did not lack awesome as he rocketed to third after a tenth place start. Oh yea, as if I have to even mention it, Randy crashed..... on the first lap..... and didn't even get any camera time for it. You know you are a habitual offender when your bins don't even warrant a replay.

Casey is going to be testing the new Duc over the next couple of days. There is much excitement over the new design and carbon fiber frame. After testing, he will be shipped off to hospital for his surgery. He is getting a bone graft (from his hip) to repair a crack in his wrist that is not healing properly.

The gloriously short winter that I boasted about in my last post will not be so short after all. Qatar, the 2009 season opener, has been pushed back to April. I will dig up the schedule for next year and post it.... and maybe even update my rider profiles, which I think are a whopping 2 years old.

Okay, it's time to thin the herd of brown bottles in the fridge and slip off into my coma :)

Until next time ....

Rubb'er Down :)

Kristen

 

 

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