Good Evening Losail
Am in Doha for the opening race of the 2011 MotoGP season, the race is on Sunday 10pm local time but i am here early to watch the free practice and the qualifying .
I arrived at the circuit a bit late yesterday but i was in time to watch the 3rd free practice and all i can tell you is that the Dr. is not very happy with the front end of his Ducati it was wobbling like a cheese cake
i also managed to have Lorenzo autograph my Moon helmet, i was also lucky to meet Dr. and he also autographed my corkscrew cap.
The 6iq Taqies ride Losail
A small clip of a warm up lap at Losail.
Losail is a very nice and fast track, its 5.380 km in length, 12 meters width, has 10 right corners and 6 left ones with a main straight of 1,068 meters, it also has a good safe area just incase you like running out wide like me.
In 2007, the track was equipped with lighting for night races and became the largest sport venue with permanent lighting in the world, but it recently lost the title to Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi.
The first night race in MotoGP history was the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar in March 2008.
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Ride 2 Dive
We have been planing this 12 days trip for a while, me and 2 other friends are to ride all the way to Sharm El Shaikh thru Wadi Rum in Jordan.
The plan is to spend 2 days at Wadi Rum then take the ferry from Aqaba to Nuweuba – نويبع-, ride to Dahab, Sharm and Taba on the way back.
Unfortunately i had some issues that prevented me form joining them, and guys left this morning, i wish them a safe and enjoyable trip.
Got Melons
I shot this photo somewhere in Turkey when we were on the way back, the lady was selling melons….we stoped and eat one with her and her grand grandson.
Trip review
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The trip took around a month from August 3rd to September 1st, we spent a week in Syria, around 2 weeks in Turkey and a week in Greece.
Being on the bike made us very popular wherever we go or stay, everyone wanted to talk to us and help -if we needed any-, we made a lot of friends and went to places where tourists can never go.
It was a bit tiring but it was worth it, and i would definitely do it again, but i would ship the bike to Syria and start from there to save myself the hassle of going thru KSA and Jordan.
Zzzzz
We left Syria Tuesday evening heading to Kuwait, all ran smoothly and borders were almost empty it took us around 4 hours to cross three border check points and reach the KSA border.
Half way across KSA -just 150km before Rafha- one the motorcycle trailer tires blow off, so we had to bring my bike down and ride it to Rafha hoping to find a tire for the trailer and replace it.
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Goodbye Turkey
We left Bodrum 2 days ago heading to Syria, we took a totally different route than the one we took going there…the new rout is mostly highway so no scenery but good roads to fully open the throttle…at one part of the highway we rode around three hours at speeds of +220km.
We reached Iskenderun in the evening and were too exhausted to do another 200km to our home in Syria so we decided to spend our last night in Turkey at Iskenderun and head to Syria in the morning.
Not for sale
We were at a gas station in Rhodes when the owner of the gas station approached me and asked me to follow him saying he has something to show me.