MotoGP Review: Qatar Heroes
The MotoGP season kicked off in Qatar last weekend, and while world champion Casey Stoner dominated the race, Toby Moody reckons it was the rookies who really made a mark
Qatar seems to throw landmark races.
We had the controversy of arriving at the race track for the first race in 2004 to be greeted with Rossi being thrown to the back of the grid after his team were caught tampering with his grid spot and then being protested by the Movistar Honda team of Sete Gibernau.
Gibernau won a vital race that day and Rossi eventually crashed after scorching through the field from the back. Even a D'Antin Ducati got on the podium that weekend. Rossi said Gibernau would never win another race after that one, and he was actually proven right.
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