Steady T: April 2010

OK, Dudes...I was writing my race report on my laptop, and I had the whole thing pretty much done when it (my laptop, not the race) froze up and shit the bed...see last photo. As a result, I'm going to re-recap the race Bad Brains-style...with the quickness, since there's no way I'm typing all that shit again.

Prerace fave, KC Stoner started from pole for the 23rd time in his career. Pedrosa got the whore-shot, and managed to hold the lead for about 3 corners before Rossi woke up from his prerace nap, and stuffed Pedro for the lead at the end of lap 1. Meanwhile, Stoner made his way way up to 1st winner's position only to toss his Ducati into the cornfields of the Qatari desert. With Stoner out, Hayden and Dovizioso made their way up to 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

While this was going on, the Texas Terrier, Ben Spies, had made his way up to 7th from an 11th place start. As Spies was moving forward, America's favorite, Pedrosa, was moving backwards. Spies put a severe 'Don't fuck with Texas' brake/pass move on Pedro into one of them there left-handers. Pedro let his laziness do the talking as he and his Honda motored past Spies on the front straight. That didn't work out very well, as Spies counter-attacked and absolutely assassinated/raped/skull-fucked Pedro on the brakes (again) to the take the spot back.

As the race wound down, Hayden and Dovi beat the shit out of each other for 3rd as Lorenzo made his way through the field. Lorenzo made his way into 3rd, leaving Hayden and Dovi to discuss who would take the final podium spot. Hayden looked to be firmly in control of these negotations, and even put a hard (not gay) move on Dovi with 3 corners to go, but the Honda top-speed didn't mesh with the Kentucky/Balogna formula, and Hayden was relegated to 4th by 11/1000th (seriously) of a second. Look for Haystack (and Spies) on the box more than once this year!

There ya' have it...the first round of the season is in the books. The next time out, we'll be @ Motegi in Japan. Supplies! Will Tamada make his comeback? Nope.