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Jerez Review: Form an orderly queue

Valentino Rossi's run to victory and Roberto Locatelli's horrific accident are two of the key talking points from last weekend's MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix, as Toby Moody takes a look back at a rather methodical weekend at Jerez

Well, Jerez wasn't the barnstormer that we thought it would be, but at Yamaha, things couldn't have been better with Valentino Rossi winning a vital race over a vital rival. Dani Pedrosa got points, but how he wished he could have won the biggest race of the year. Yamaha's Colin Edwards was there to back No. 46 up, taking points off everyone else other than Pedrosa.

I say it wasn't the stonking race that I thought it would be because after the closest ever top 10 in qualifying for a 500/MotoGP race, with just 0.325 seconds covering Pedrosa on pole to Kenny Roberts Jr in 10th, we all though it'd be great come Sunday. Ultimately the top three were the same on lap 1 as they were at the end of lap 27 and on the podium. Maybe a quirk of a little too much testing at the Andalusian track?

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