A remarkable and historic day for MotoGP started in farce and ended in, if not glory, then at least some form of euphoria. At 10am, TV broadcasters around the world switched over live to Valencia, for two hours of broadcasting riders looking out of garages at a wet and windy track, while the media of the world huddled outside the Marlboro Ducati pits waiting for Valentino Rossi to emerge. Dorna staff were looking particularly nervous, having sold a pile of off-season subscriptions for their (otherwise excellent) streaming video coverage off the back of Rossi's Ducati debut, and now there was nothing to placate the punters with, other than the expert time-filling of Gavin Emmett (and no, we're not related).
Eventually, the surface dried out enough for the riders to venture out on track, with Rossi dispersing the throngs around his garage by the simple expedient of going out and putting in a few laps, temporarily slaking the crowd's appetite. With that out of the way, the world of MotoGP could return to what will pass for normal from now on, while Rossi is on the Ducati.
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