The residents around the wondrous Sagrada Familia in Barcelona are used to the noise of tourists and their buses, construction work (for over a century now) and the odd police siren but this morning the growl of a world champion’s Yamaha M1 was something kinda different…

The first full day of activity in Brazil took place under a sun hot enough to cook an egg. Finding shade at the splendour of Hotel Dona Carolina meant dodging girls in bikinis but the Mormaii pre-event press gathering was good fun. Then onto the track for day one of the Grand Prix…

Across the Atlantic and back again. Before gliding over one ocean I was able to take in the beauty of another as our last day in California prompted a cruise through Malibu. Then the 26-odd hour hike back to Europe and to Sao Paolo for Brazilian fun…

A third hotel in five days and back to LA before the lengthy bounce across the Atlantic to the UK, a short wait and then onto Sao Paolo. Ken Roczen and Clement Desalle were undisputed at Glen Helen but there are only a few days before someone else might get a shot at Indaiatuba…

A sizeable change of climate in one day at Glen Helen for the first day of the U.S. Grand Prix, plenty of talking, some news and, of course some pole positions: in MX1 for Clement Desalle and MX2 for Ken Roczen by comfortable margins

Just for anyone checking-in and wanting to know what is going on for the MotoGP at Le Mans, here is the Dorna press release with Casey Stoner on pole just ahead of Marco Simoncelli…