This weekend haled the start of the MotoGP season of 2008. The senior class has seen some major changes.
Jorge Lorenzo, Andrea Dovizioso and Randy De Puniet, the three big names from the 250 all moved to the gp class. Lorenzo as Rossi’s team mate. Edwards moved to the tech 3 Yamaha team, Melandri to Ducatti replacing Cappirossi which in turn moved to Suzuki.
The opening race was held at night for the first time. Though I have to admit there is certain magic to racing at night, it really is a huge waste of energy to keep that much light going. I hope this will not begin a new trend in the MotoGP world.
The beginning of the race was very exciting. Pedrosas had a great start, starting from third row he took the leading off the first corner. There was a lot of action the first 10 rounds with Rossi, Jorge, Stoner, Pedrosa, Dovizioso battling it out for the leading. Unfortunately At the 10′th round it started to look like the previous season. Stoner was at the front, and slowly but surely increasing his lead, Jorge was in second place. Rossi started to loose places to finish 5th. Pedrosa took the last podium place. Dovizioso ended 4th after a nice fight with Rossi in the last 2 rounds.
It looks like the 2008 season has the potential to be very exciting but it can also end up with Stoner dominating once again. In 3 weeks we will see how things developed.