Salt Lake Motorsports

The first night ride in the history of the MotoGP was held last weekend in Qatar. But Ducati MotoGP Team rider Casey Stoner wasn’t afraid of the dark. He started the defense of his title from fourth on the grid and had dropped to fifth by the end of the first lap, before charging through to set up a stirring battle with Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo. The Spanish rookie proved to be the most difficult obstacle between Stoner and his eleventh career MotoGP win but by the eighth lap Stoner was in control and little by little he opened out an insurmountable gap.