Stoned again!

[wombat666]

GRANDE PREMIO DE PORTUGAL CIRCUITO ESTORIL
MotoGP Race Classification 2012
1 25 1 Casey STONER AUS Repsol Honda Team Honda 154.0 45'37.513
2 20 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 153.9 +1.421
3 16 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 153.8 +3.621
4 13 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 153.2 +13.846
5 11 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 153.1 +16.690
6 10 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 152.8 +21.884
7 9 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Ducati Team Ducati 152.5 +26.797
8 8 11 Ben SPIES USA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 152.1 +33.262
9 7 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 152.0 +35.867
10 6 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Pramac Racing Team Ducati 151.0 +53.363
11 5 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 150.5 +1'02.630
12 4 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Power Electronics Aspar ART 149.6 +1'20.736
13 3 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Power Electronics Aspar ART 149.4 +1'23.483
14 2 51 Michele PIRRO ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini FTR 148.7 +1'37.905
15 1 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Came IodaRacing Project Ioda 147.2 1 Lap

Not Classified
17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing Ducati 144.7 5 Laps
77 James ELLISON GBR Paul Bird Motorsport ART 146.4 10 Laps
68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Avintia Blusens BQR 148.7 12 Laps
54 Mattia PASINI ITA Speed Master ART 148.8 17 Laps
22 Ivan SILVA SPA Avintia Blusens BQR 144.0 17 Laps

One more victory on a circuit that Stoner has not won at previously, currently he now has won on every circuit on the calender!!
Another great Stoner-Lorenzo-Pedrosa battle, equally intense inter-team fight between Dovizioso-Crutchlow, and young Bautista proving his worth once again.
One more time, what has happened to Ben Spies?
He has the talent in spades but both the Tech 3 'Customer' riders are making him look bad.
Hayden looked good but faded and Rossi ended up the leading Ducati, albiet in P7.
Shame that Colin Edwards broke his collar bone again, but he'll probably be riding next week at Le Mans!

 

[demorier]

You're right about Spies...probably has one of the 4 most competitive bikes out there and going nowhere in a hurry.

 

[Panther_99FS]

I'm trying you guys really!
But somehow, I don't have the interest that I used have when people like Christian Sarron, Randy Mamola, Ron Haslam, Wayne Gardner, "Fast Freddie" Spencer, etc, were racing.....

 

[demorier]

Know what you mean P. I think back to some of those names and on any given track there was maybe 5 riders from different teams could have won a race. These days that seems to be down to 2 or 3 at the most on any track.

 

[Victory103]

Agree guys, and I'd say I'm a younger fan as I was just getting into the sport when all the big names mentioned were leaving/retiring. I go the races if they are close, mostly AMA stuff and it's really sad now. For awhile when MotoGP would get boring, I knew I could count on WSBK for some bar banging racing, but even that series is changing.