Valentino Rossi had won three in a row in the 2008 MotoGP World Championship, moving to the head of the standings with his works Fiat Yamaha. His round six win had been at home in the Italian GP at Mugello, but now it was back to Spain for round seven, giving home advantage to his two main rivals. Would Dani Pedrosa or Jorge Lorenzo do the job in the Catalunya Grand Prix?
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.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an
extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast
to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and
powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav.
