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Qatar review: A weekend full of surprises

Many things that were supposed to happen in the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix did not happen, as MotoGP got off to a thrilling start to 2010. Toby Moody analyses a weekend full of surprises

Wow, what a weekend.

It's 3am in the morning and I'm still wide awake after the opening MotoGP race of the year. Truth be told, I thought it was going to be just the same as it has been for the last three years in so far as Casey Stoner was going to disappear into the distance and not be seen again until parc ferme. A terrible start was surprising for the Aussie, but we should all by now that he's cool about things like that, and just like Mick Doohan or Valentino Rossi, Stoner can let the initial madness of the first few laps settle before making his moves.

Hitting the front and then setting a lap record on lap five [last year he managed the race's fastest lap on only the second tour], he was checking out for an early flight back to Switzerland.

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