Istanbul Park Ends

MotoGP just ended minutes ago with Melandri winning a close, close 3 way race with Stoner and Pedrosa. Pedrosa leaned his bike a little too much on the last lap and fell, raising his arms in a why ?! why ?! gesture. Gosh, my heart fell for him.

Shinya ended the race with the goals I had set for him in my head intact. He ended the race not worse off than his starting 8th spot. And he finished ahead of Randy De Puniet. Not that I've given up on the loftier goals of the top podium, but it's good to stay with reachable benchmarks for now.

It was like watching the rise of the new guards just now. Rossi started way back, and then inched up front, finishing 4th in the end. Gibernau, still suffering the Rossi curse, was leading in the earlier laps and then dropped back, and further still. Probably ended way back in the end, didn't even notice. Sometimes I wish it was still the Rossi-Biaggi era.