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Qatar MotoGP Racing Season - In the Heat of the Night

Despite great racing in all the MotoGP classes, for most the initial luster of racing at night in Qatar has long passedPitpass
By the time MotoGP season kicked off under the lights in the desert outside the Qatari capital of Doha for the third year in a row, the novelty of racing at night had worn off. In its place were concerns about the nighttime humidity that slickened the track and caused a number of crashes in pre-season testing and prompted an extraordinary meeting with the riders about possibly changing race times. That was never going to happen (not with television satellite time booked), but it was important that the sport's management appeared to care. So with the MotoGP race certain to start at 11:00 p.m., everyone was left to consider just how silly it is to race 240-horsepower motorcycles at night in the desert-in April.


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