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Rossi with his helmet for Sic Stoner takes pole

— In Moto2 the news of the day was that Kalex's German rider, Stefan Bradl, was named world champion today as Marc Marquez announced that he will not be racing tomorrow because of the injury he suffered in a fall during practice at the Malaysian MotoGP two weeks ago. Pole position in the last race of the season was won by the Italian Michele Pirro, who rode well, but was also rather fortunate as he set his time during the first part of qualifying, before the rain forced all the riders to slow down. In 125 pole position went to the English rider Danny Webb (Mahindra Racing), with a time of 1:45.898, ahead of Louis Rossi (Matteoni Racing, 1:46.325) and Johann Zarco (Avant-AirAsia-Ajo, 1:48.028). Nicolas Terol (Bankia Aspar) will start on the third row.

— Valentino Rossi talked after qualifying about the helmet that was created to honour Simoncelli: "This helmet has a much deeper and far more important meaning than the others and I want to use it as often as possible". Speaking about qualifying, he stated: "It didn't go too badly. We are on the second row and at the end I used a setting that I liked. I was able to ride the bike the way I like to. I was going round quite well and the pace wasn't bad at the end even though the front of the bike lifts a bit'. We have to solve this problem and then go even faster. I think we can do well in the wet. Let's see what the conditions are like tomorrow". Casey Stoner was, clearly, also really happy to be on pole once more: "I'm still hungry to get pole positions - he said - this was the last race, I had already won the world championship, but when I race, I always try to go as fast as possible".

Weekend at the track.

In 1987 I left my yuppy lifestyle to go sailing for a year, maybe two. Over ten years later I was still at it, making my living as a Coast Guard licensed professional boatbum. I ran boats as far north as Maine and south to Venezuela. But most of the time, I was driving charter boats among the islands of the Caribbean. By 2000 I thought I'd had enough. I washed ashore in Portland, Oregon to work with my pal Gary at home remodeling. But even there, I continued to mess around on boats - on the Columbia River, Pacific Ocean, the Strait of Georgia and the Puget Sound. Now married to Cathy, a NOAA Branch Chief, I've followed her to St Petersburg, Florida where she is on a six month assignment to help with the BP oil catastrophe. In this blog I will talk about my experience of St Petersburg, of living with a lifelong environmental protection professional in the midst of the nation’s largest ever ecological disaster, and of my quest to continue messing around in boats.