Bob Barnard Track Engineering

Some how someone in race control was not paying attention. Pescarolo won the race in the end, nice return for this famous man, and they came from the back of the grid to do it. An LMP2 car was third, the other LMP1 runners finding trouble, especially the Aston which did finish after a lot of stops and only covered half the distance to the winner. The JMW squad gave the 458 Ferrari its first win in front of the AF Corse Ferrari. Mind you, all the Porsche opposition went out in that start accident.

The MotoGp race in Jerez was no less fraught, with rain, yes rain in Spain, causing all sorts of grid shuffle and crashes. Lorenzo won the race, must have been Kenny's schooling in how to ride in the wet, with Pedrosa second and Nicky Hayden, yes on the Duke, third. It seems the wet suited the Ducati with Rossi being particularly racy, in fact too racy, taking out Stoner in an extremely ambitious overtaking move that he survived to finish fifth while Stoner was out. Perhaps you could argue that if Stoner was at the front where he should have been that would not have happened. Rossi was man enough to go apologize, and Stoner uttered these immortal words, "Your ambition outweighs your talent." Ouch!  Ben Spies crashed out of second with three laps to go and Colin Edwards retired from third on the last lap. Simoncelli crashed out of first place to hand it to Lorenzo, the only man it seems who wanted it.

The Moto2 race seems quite tame by comparison with rain also playing its part and Iannone coming through from eleventh to take the win.

Seems Pirelli are not the only tire company with excessive wear problems. Goodyear is seeing 40 laps on a half mile oval! And I don't think they were trying to spice up the show.