Casey Stoner lead from lights to checkered flag ... no contest. After pulling a 2 second lead on the first lap, he increased that to over 3 seconds for the middle of the race and finished nearly 8 seconds ahead of Rossi, as Valentino gave up trying and eased off for the last couple of laps. Lorenzo still trailed Rossi by another 9 seconds. After getting by Dovizioso with 7 or 8 laps to go, Colin Edwards pulled a 3 second gap, finishing a creditable 4th. A very uninteresting race to say the least ... a few off-track excursions, and a little bike-to-bike contact, with a spectacular crash, in a shower of sparks, by Capirossi on his powder blue Rizla Suzuki. Very little in the way of dramatic passing, once the initial laps were over. Pedrosa, Hayden, Gibernau and Melandri went 12, 13, 14 and 15. It's time Losail put a couple of twisties into the middle of that big straight. Much as I respect the incredible talent of all these guys and the stratospheric capability of the bikes, methinks the series to watch this year is WSB.
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