Shedding some light on Stoner's crashes
Casey Stoner has endured a miserable start to the season and, with two falls in three races, he's down in 14th in the standings. Toby Moody sheds some light on the Australian's problems
There is a bet that the Ohlins suspension guys have in their truck to guess the top five finishers in the MotoGP race. I went in on Sunday morning to chalk up my favoured riders' names only to be told that the rules had changed since Jerez in that you can nominate your riders after the morning warm-up. I narrowly missed out on winning it in Jerez, having got the podium picked together with fifth and sixth, so I had a spring in my step as I climbed the steps into their mobile workshop.
The difference is at Le Mans I saved my €5 outlay first thing in the morning with the new rules so made a mental note to return in the short window after the warm-up, but before the 125cc race. The trouble is I never made it back to the black and gold Swedish registered truck, but that's probably just as well as I saved my €5 from being lost into someone else's pocket forever.
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