So Sunday morning and its the big race day. We don our best Florintine saftey gear. Mugello is in a big bowl and gets stinking hot, so we figure that there is more chance of dying from dehydration than actually crashing, so have lapsed on the riding gear for today. I promise Sam We wont be doing anything dangerous.
Luckily Sam has her safety sandals on.
Lane splitting is compulsory in Italy. He we are doing about 80kmh. Its ok our saftey gear will save us in an event of an accident.
The traffic was chaotic and the police have absolutly no control....they dont even try.
Came across this on the way in. Scooter rider crased into car. He wasnt too bad though only 2 broken legs we think.
I think This guy was on his way to a gay fancy dress party.
We discovered once we got to the track that we were able to take the bikes in. Just like Phillip Island superbikes but with a trillion people. It was chaos, luckliy I have a air horn fitted to my bike. Was great fun sneaking up behind people and scaring shit out of them.
Took a couple of shots of some bikes going round and round. apparently there was a race on.
Was a bit hot so most of the crowd was half naked....not that i noticed.
We got a police escort into the grandstand.
Took our seats in the stand.
Our veiw of the track.
GP bikes are crap in the sand. I reckon they should all have dual sport bikes.
Breakfast of champions. Pizza and beer.
Valentino Rossi was sitting just in front of us.
Nah just kidding...bloody looked like him though.
A gazzillion beers before lunch in the sun will do this to you. A nana nap between races.
We had a great time being bogan Aussies and putting shit on all the Vale fans.
The aussie casey Stoner finished 3 rd after leading for most of the race. The crowd abandoned Rossi, shortly after the start when they realised that he wasnt going to win. The silence was ear peircing...except for us knuckle heads screaming our heads off.
When the race finished they actually encouraged the spectators to invade the track. Even on your bike if you wish. Wouldnt happen in a fit in Australia. It was absolute chaos and great fun. We nearly started a riot while riding through the camps yelling "wheres Vales anyone seen Vale? Has he finished yet? I learnt a few new Italian swear words. Hilarious.
We couldnt resist doing a lap of the circuit. Luckily we had our saftey gear on.
Buzz still thinks planking is all the rage.
We figured a burn out was in order
And it very nearly ended in tears. Would have been a great look if both of us ended up on our ass.
There was a 40klm traffic jam on the way out. Flattened the battery on my bike with all the stop start and bikes were overheating everywhere. it took us about 3 hours to get out......all in 38 degree heat...great fun.
Eventually we made it out just as the sun was setting.
We went back to the penthouse said goodbye to Marco and Syvlia, who have just been so fantastic. Really hope they come to stay with us some day. Marco there is always a bike for you.
We needed to put in some kays so hit the autostrada and did about 300kays into the night and ended up finding another flash hotel just north of Milan at about 11pm.
Buzz the bell boy took our bags to our room.
Tomorrow is another 3 countries in 1 day sort of day. The pace will be on as the jerk that is shipping our bike back home, has very kindly forgot to tell us that he has moved the shipping date one day forward. Not happy. It was only by chance that we found out. More on this later.
Thanks for your awesome post. I love riding bike most. We are going to arrange a tournament this summer.
thanks again.
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