MOTGP #2

If ever you wondered about the type of men who race bikes...

#1

In the 250 race yesterday, one of the riders misjudged his overtaking manoeuvre and slammed into the back of the other machine at...250KPH!

The bike cartwheeled, throwing the rider over the bars and tumbling/sliding down the track (at 250 remember).

He got up and walked away.

#2

Jorge Lorenzo, the current 250cc world champion, now in the premier Motogp class finished second after starting in last place in the previous round. In itself that's a remarkable achievement. More so when one considers he rode the race with an ankle broken a fortnight earlier.

Hard men one and all, and perhaps goes part of the way to explaining why women can't race bikes.