Looking Ahead To The Chinese Grand Prix
Right, well after such a seemingly long break after that terrific Estoril weekend, we move onto China for the next round; which was one of Alvaro’s top races last year, coming home 3.904 seconds behind Jorge Lorenzo and over 5 seconds ahead of third place man Andrea Dovizioso (de Angelis, Kallio and Barbera making up the top six).
It was a strong and spirited performance – and with a memorable “hard but fair” pass on Dovi, and it’ll be good to see him pull another great race out of the bag this time round. I think, on balance, given how the season started, another runaway victory would be more than welcome – though it’d be equally cool to see some excellent dicing again.
Here’s the weekend event schedule…
(*All times are local, of course)
Friday May 2nd
125cc :: Free Practice 1 :: 09:00-09:45
MotoGP :: Free Practice 1 :: 10:00-11:00
250cc :: Free Practice 1 :: 11:15-12:15
125cc :: Qualifying 1 :: 13:10-13:40
MotoGP :: Free Practice 2 :: 13:55-14:55
250cc :: Qualifying 1 :: 15:10-15:55
Saturday May 3rd
125cc :: Free Practice 2 :: 09:00-09:45
MotoGP :: Free Practice 3 :: 10:00-11:00
250cc :: Free Practice 2 :: 11:15-12:15
125cc :: Qualifying 2 :: 13:10-13:40
MotoGP :: Qualifying 1 :: 13:55-14:55
250cc :: Qualifying 2 :: 15:10-15:55
Sunday May 4th
125cc :: Warm-Up :: 09:40-10:00
250cc :: Warm-Up :: 10:10-10:30
MotoGP :: Warm-Up :: 10:49-11:05
125cc :: Race :: 12:00-11:45
250cc :: Race :: 13:15-13:00
MotoGP :: Race :: 15:00-15:00
Oh, and if you click on the picture at the top of this post, you can download it as a 1280×1024 desktop wallpaper. How lovely, smashing and generous are we????
