Four days, approx. 800 miles, one mishap on the ferry involving a patch of oil and me, a slide from Paul around a French roundabout,

lots of wind, rain on and off, grills, beer and pudding.  Oh... and motorbikes, lots and lots of motorbikes!

All the ingredients of a great weekend!

Getting ready to set off with Paul and Debs.

The hotel in Alecon

These are all British bikes!  My room was bottom right where Paul and Debs are standing, theirs was to the left of mine.

Saturday, 20th May - Qualifying day

125cc qualifying

250cc Aprillia getting a bump start!

MotoGP qualifying

The first sight of Valentino Rossi

Colin Edwards

Sete Gibernau

Frenchman Randy De Puniet

Shinya Nakano

John Hopkins

plastic-wrap effect!

Carlos Checa

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Daniel Pedrosa

Gibernau neck and neck with Cardoso

more Rossi!

Final qualifying positions

Sunday, 21st May - Race day

125cc race .... crash on the first corner of the first lap

250cc race

MotoGP parade lap

Rossi waves to the crowd

And the race starts... first corner, the crowd cheers French rider "Randyyyyyy De Punietttt!!"

who promptly crashes after getting nudged by Rossi who in turn was nudged by Pedrosa

Tamada on the sole Honda Konica-Minolta escapes the melee

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black & white background

plastic-wrap effect

Nakano cruises around after the race finishes

Race over and everyone makes their way out.  Our bikes are in there.... somewhere

Bikes from inside the parking area, Le Mans circuit in the background

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