Indianapolis aka The Brickyard with home boys, Nicky Hayden, Colin Edwards and Ben Spies. The chances of an American on the podium was looking up for Ben Spies keeping up a quick pace in practise and a strong qualifying however got off to a tough start getting caught up in the mid field, narrowly missing crashing out on Lap 1... we wouldn't want to see this beauty of a bike in the gravel! Everyone agree that Yamaha should keep the red and white livery, yes?!
In all honesty the Indy GP wasn't action packed, with mechanical failures popping up Rossi landed himself at the back of the grid... somewhere where we are slowly (and i mean snail pace, not really accepting that it's happening slowly) getting used to seeing him at the back of the field struggling with his Ducati.
His teammate Nicky Hayden didn't manage to finish the race, maybe it was the wedding helmet? Maybe not but either or he had to retire due to a mechanical failure.
It was a familiar sight when Casey Stoner crossed the line and won the Indy Grand Prix, like he has done so for the majority of the races this year.
The Aussie is well on his way to becoming World Champion!
Hector Barbera was so close but so far from finishing the GP, maybe he thought he was in a stunt movie for a minute?! Sorry Barbera but that doesn't count as finishing the race...
Dani Pedrosa finished in second and to round of the podium Ben Spies finished in 3rd, his first podium since his win in Assen!
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Onwards and upwards and across to Italy for Misano!
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