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Friday, 7th March 2008

"When Chris Walker, who makes no effort to hide how much he dislikes me, offered his hand at Qatar I nearly fainted" - Simon Buckmaster.

"MotoGP starts this weekend and people are asking me whether I think the winner will be Casey Stoner or Valentino Rossi. Valentino has a large tax bill to pay off and may be slightly hungrier this year and I hope that really motivates him to race because if it does we will be in for a vintage season of MotoGP.

"When Valentino started winning in the premier class Mick Doohan had just retired, so we never got to see the heavyweights really fight it out. Now with Casey and Valentino, we may just get to see two of the best riders ever slog it out and that will make great entertainment, which in turn is good for bike racing as the audiences will increase.

"Then again given the impressive testing performance of James Toseland, a rider I really rate, wouldn't it be great to see a Brit challenging at the front in MotoGP... I'll be watching the race on Sunday night," he concluded.

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