Colin Edwards set fastest time in third free practice, showing another great outside-race performance on pneumatic valve Yamaha that his team received just day before. Jorge Lorenzo was just behind his predecessor in Fiat Yamaha team, while Nicky Hayden played role of fastest Honda rider. Valentino Rossi was fastest of only 3 Bridgestone riders in top 10, with other two, Hopkins and Vermeulen, taking 9th and 10th spot. Dani Pedrosa, who was fastest yesterday, today was unable to go under 1:38 barrier. James Toseland rode his new machine to 6th, in front of Andrea Dovizoso and Randy de Puniet. Casey stoner finished FP3 around 1.1 seconds off the pace, continuing struggle in Estoril.
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
