MotoGP gets Space Station link-up for Silverstone

MotoGP spiced up the pre-event press conference at Silverstone with a live Space Station link-up!

Astronaut and MotoGP fan Drew Feustel spoke with Valentino Rossi, Marc Marquez, Jorge Lorenzo, Andrea Dovizioso, Cal Crutchlow and Alvaro Bautista directly from inside the ISS as it orbits the Earth.

Subjects ranged from what astronauts eat in space and how they exercise, to how far away the ISS was – with Feustel doing some zero-gravity aided acrobatics during some answers.

Feustel was at Brno last season and he and Crutchlow had a catch up of sorts – with the Brit going a little off-piste to ask if Feustel knew how everything in the shot worked.

“We know a little about a lot, rather than a lot about a little,” was the reply.