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Sunday, 30th March 2008

Crash.net columnist Mike Nicks is running an exclusive blog during this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez - check back regularly to read his behind-the-scenes news...

It's 7am on Sunday at the Spanish grand prix here at Jerez, and the hardcore punters know that they have to be inside this circuit by 7.30am, or suffer in a two-hour jam on the roads outside.

Everybody should come to a MotoGP race in a Latin country to experience what Valentino Rossi calls la emoción. We're staying in a casa de huéspedes - (guest house) - for just €50 a night for a twin-bedded room overlooking a vast Andalucian landscape, our rental car costs just €19 a day, a flight around €100.

What can we expect to see on this 2.75-mile track? Looking at the string of 11 consecutive laps in the 1 minute 40 second bracket reeled off by Lorenzo on race Michelins yesterday, before he set that stunning 1-38.189 pole effort, you'd have to say that he starts as clear favourite - if he can make a fast getaway.

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But Pedrosa and Rossi will want to tangle the 20-year-old in a three-way scrap, where his inexperience on a 200-horsepower MotoGP bike could lead him to commit errors.

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