Indy 2008 FP1

First ever MotoGP race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) and the first half and hour of the first practice is so far showing some interesting results. Of course we still have the rest of the weekend and things are likely to change, weather depending.

While I can't actually see the practice and can only go by the live timing from the MotoGP website my spider senses are telling me it's raining. How do I know that you ask? Anthony West is on the top of the board and at 1.56.605 is lapping 2 whole seconds faster that the number 2 spot being Alex De Angelis (1.58.756), who is lapping 2 seconds faster that Sylvian Guintoli in number 2 on 2.00.482. And it pretty much goes on by there. Now I know I constantly give crap to poor old Ant West, but I can't help the fact that he generally sucks arse in the dry.

Middle of the pack we have Edwards in 9th and Dovi in 10th doing 2.02s. And down the very bottom we have Melandri on 2.06 and Capirossi on 2.08. Doesn't look like the old man is a fan of the rain.

And just after the half way mark Hopkins has joined his team mate and is currently on 1.57. The problem with this being a new track, not to mention the high likelyhood that it's actually raining is that we have no idea what a good track time is. It could be that by tomorrow afternoon the leaders could be running into the low 1.40 mark, we just don't know. But moving on it looks like that testing after Misano may have done some good for the Kawasaki bike. I think there was some mention that they are now changing the bike to fit the tyre instead of vice versa. Gee wonder how long it took them to decide that, especially considering, um, they don't make the TYRE!!!

45 minutes to go and the rain has obviously stopped and Ben Spies, the rider with the only experience at this track is on 1.56.423 and is on top of the board.

I'm now going to go back to watching flashing blue and red helmets on my screen before trying to get some sleep before FP2.