MOTO GP 2005!!!!!
WOW, yesterday was abosultely great. I went to Donnington Park and saw the British Moto GP Race! OH wow it was so cool and really fast paced that I could hardly believe it. The only small, rather persistent problem was the rain...
I have never been so cold, wet and miserable in my life. Not even when we did the Waterside Trail (Chibi you'll know how bad that day was) or when we went to Scotland in October have I been so cold and soaked. I'm not joking when I say my hands had actually started to turn blue by the end of it.
Anyway we arrived there at six in the morning, got it and prowled around the stalls and stuff. Got myself a new 'Rossi' style jacket which was supposed to be £90 but I must have charmed the guy with my ravishing looks (or flashed my tits at him as Dad will tell ya) cause I got it for £70 (twenty quid saving). I know it sounds a lot but for a proper jacket with armour in the arms it's a damn good price. Also got a offical GP T-shirt, an Offical Valentino Rossi 46 race top (the guy whose going to be champion for the fourth/fifth/sixth time this year and we're all a big fan of him), a Teddy and a free poster which I'm happy about *dances* Dad got an excellent helmet for only £30 which was brand new! You can't even get second hand ones for that price - unless your getting them off a mate usually.
Anyway the racing started and the 125s were as fun as ever - basically they're the young lads (16+ roughtly) who go hell for leather, try a load of different tactics and have the most falls of the lot of them and are also generally the ones to start watching for when/if they move onto the next levels - and the racing was getting going when the rain came. So they stoped, changed onto the wet tires and did a nine lap sprint race to the end. Imagin a 125 bike going at about 150+ miles an hour in the teeming rain trying to win. Very fun.
The 250 race (the next stage up) was declared as a wet race and was okay but always seems a bit boring. It's a good race but it's inbetween the two classes I like and can be a bit tedious.
Then came the 500 race and wow. It's always my favourite anyway but it was so cool actually seeing Rossi, Gibernal, Edwards, Haydon and all the others actually racing around on these bikes. It was like a dream come true. I've never felt my heart beat so fast and virtually the whole crowd was cheering Rossi on cause not only is he a damn good rider he's an adopted brit - he's Italian but can't live in the country without getting mobbed so he lives in London - and it was just amazing to see him actually win a race. He was fighting to get it, and determinded as hell, you could tell from the way that he started the race. Just straight away and gone. He went from pole to third, then second, then third, then fourth (how I still don't quite know) then back up to second and in the last five laps he leapt up to first and no one could catch him. He won with a 7 second lead! That's amazing considering these bikes were going around the track about 200 miles an hour and he had 7 seconds on the second place guy!
We then left to try and beat the crowds - we would've done better to stay put for several hours. I fell asleep whilst we were waiting to get out (I had been up from about 2am with only a cat-nap inbetween) and though that I would wake up once we go near the litte chef my parents wanted to go to. I woke up three and a half hours later to find that we were still in the traffic trying to get onto the M1 and were stuck in the country lanes around the back. That was totally rediculas and to make matters even worse when we got to the M1 they had made it so everyone had to go down the south road. Considering that almost 50% plus of the people there will have wanted to go onto the North Road this seems a pretty stupid idea. We did get back on the north road eventually and it took us eight hours to get home. It would have been quicker to go to London and back in a day than to get out of that place.
Still I'm glad I can say I've done it and know what it sounds/smells like and the atmosphere I'm never going to forget but I think if I go again I'm going to go into a nice hotel, walk in, watch it, walk out and stay put.
Hehe 46! Valentino Rossi wins!
Oh side note, Birthday's this Saturday and it's a BBQ at mine starting at four. Please respond to the text messages that are going out tonight, thank you
I have never been so cold, wet and miserable in my life. Not even when we did the Waterside Trail (Chibi you'll know how bad that day was) or when we went to Scotland in October have I been so cold and soaked. I'm not joking when I say my hands had actually started to turn blue by the end of it.
Anyway we arrived there at six in the morning, got it and prowled around the stalls and stuff. Got myself a new 'Rossi' style jacket which was supposed to be £90 but I must have charmed the guy with my ravishing looks (or flashed my tits at him as Dad will tell ya) cause I got it for £70 (twenty quid saving). I know it sounds a lot but for a proper jacket with armour in the arms it's a damn good price. Also got a offical GP T-shirt, an Offical Valentino Rossi 46 race top (the guy whose going to be champion for the fourth/fifth/sixth time this year and we're all a big fan of him), a Teddy and a free poster which I'm happy about *dances* Dad got an excellent helmet for only £30 which was brand new! You can't even get second hand ones for that price - unless your getting them off a mate usually.
Anyway the racing started and the 125s were as fun as ever - basically they're the young lads (16+ roughtly) who go hell for leather, try a load of different tactics and have the most falls of the lot of them and are also generally the ones to start watching for when/if they move onto the next levels - and the racing was getting going when the rain came. So they stoped, changed onto the wet tires and did a nine lap sprint race to the end. Imagin a 125 bike going at about 150+ miles an hour in the teeming rain trying to win. Very fun.
The 250 race (the next stage up) was declared as a wet race and was okay but always seems a bit boring. It's a good race but it's inbetween the two classes I like and can be a bit tedious.
Then came the 500 race and wow. It's always my favourite anyway but it was so cool actually seeing Rossi, Gibernal, Edwards, Haydon and all the others actually racing around on these bikes. It was like a dream come true. I've never felt my heart beat so fast and virtually the whole crowd was cheering Rossi on cause not only is he a damn good rider he's an adopted brit - he's Italian but can't live in the country without getting mobbed so he lives in London - and it was just amazing to see him actually win a race. He was fighting to get it, and determinded as hell, you could tell from the way that he started the race. Just straight away and gone. He went from pole to third, then second, then third, then fourth (how I still don't quite know) then back up to second and in the last five laps he leapt up to first and no one could catch him. He won with a 7 second lead! That's amazing considering these bikes were going around the track about 200 miles an hour and he had 7 seconds on the second place guy!
We then left to try and beat the crowds - we would've done better to stay put for several hours. I fell asleep whilst we were waiting to get out (I had been up from about 2am with only a cat-nap inbetween) and though that I would wake up once we go near the litte chef my parents wanted to go to. I woke up three and a half hours later to find that we were still in the traffic trying to get onto the M1 and were stuck in the country lanes around the back. That was totally rediculas and to make matters even worse when we got to the M1 they had made it so everyone had to go down the south road. Considering that almost 50% plus of the people there will have wanted to go onto the North Road this seems a pretty stupid idea. We did get back on the north road eventually and it took us eight hours to get home. It would have been quicker to go to London and back in a day than to get out of that place.
Still I'm glad I can say I've done it and know what it sounds/smells like and the atmosphere I'm never going to forget but I think if I go again I'm going to go into a nice hotel, walk in, watch it, walk out and stay put.
Hehe 46! Valentino Rossi wins!
Oh side note, Birthday's this Saturday and it's a BBQ at mine starting at four. Please respond to the text messages that are going out tonight, thank you
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