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Business as usual:
Those are the words of John himself. Today was quite nice, it wasn\'t as windy as the past two days but a bit more chilly.
The 125 race was red flagged so the 250 and MotoGP started abit later then usual. In the beginning, Max took the lead and there was Sete and Loris. Slowly Rossi climed his way up and was behind Max for sometime, it looked like he was just waiting for the right time to past, which is what he does best. If I was Jeremy Burgess, and Rossi was my rider, I\'d be like, \"My rider is the shit! Ya\'ll ain\'t got nuttin on him!\" Just joking, but he has alot to be proud about that\'s for sure. Rossi took over and basically the race was over from there on out. Max stayed behind him getting second and Sete and Loris were kinda of battling. More towards the last part of the race is where Loris really picked it up and showed the Ducati horseys. On the last lap on the front straight, Loris passed Sete and then Sete passed Loris again in the chicane. Around the last few turns it looked like Sete pretty much had it, but on the front straight the Ducati power kicked in and flew passed Sete on the line. \"You got the handling, but I got the power, check you later!!!\" We were all thinking, \"Oh that\'s just ridiculous, did you just see that thing?\" Yeah, they got some ponies under the fairing.
There were no crashes, and the battling really going on was in the middle of the pack. Nicky, Alex, Olivier, Nakato, and Shinya seemed to have the most competition during the whole race. Colin was behind abit but rode up to 14th I think so that\'s good for him. And for Kenny and John, well if you watched MotoGP.com and the times, you could tell the bike was at the limit cause\' their times were pretty similiar during the whole race. Kenny started mid pack but slowly fell back to 17th and John was 18th. Couldn\'t go any faster then 1\'42.00 and some odd numbers. Another race down and now it\'s time for the fly aways. It was kind of a boring race though, no one crashed, no real intense battling. The best part was watching Loris beat Sete on the line. He was all dissappointed. Get over it, you still got into the top 5, why be upset?
Anyway, now for packing. We leave for the States tommorrow and John heads to Brazil next Monday. I\'m not going cause\' I\'m not a fan of it and he\'s there for less then a week, so I will be doing the reports from home via John and cell phone!!! Well ladies and gents, talk to you later.
Des.
