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I was feeling good after the beer at Gresini hospitality, and we all decided to watch the race from the best seats in the circuit. We needed to buy tickets, but this kind of complicated process should be taken care of by the young folks. I nominated Mr. A to man up, and after struggling with a Japanese to Spanish dictionary on his hand, he finally got us the right tickets.
While we were heading to our seats, we couldn’t help but noticing so many charming ladies walking everywhere. First, we would pick out every girl we liked, but soon we got tired of saying that over and over again. We still kept doing with the eye-to-eye communication, though. Looking back, I feel a little stupid joining others to do that.
Anyways, small stalls? Stands? Tents? Were lining up just like in Japanese circuits, but the difference was that all the products were hung behind the counter table and we couldn’t reach out to see them in the hands. I wondered if it was because they were afraid of people mashing up and/or stealing stuff. Also, I was very interested in big muscular police officers everywhere wearing berets, sunglasses and masks. They wore something like combat uniforms and had guns in the left hands and batons in the right hands. If I performed my jokes to one of them, he would definitely shoot me before he thought about smacking me with that baton.
Well, thank God I’m alive. And the next interesting people were guys carrying beer servers on their backs. Bucchan and I ordered beer to make a good souvenir story (well, of course that’s just an excuse to enjoy some beer under the sun), and we were so excited about the huge cups the cold beer was served in. “Man, Spanish people know how to drink beer!” I thought so for a few seconds until he charged me a lot more than I had expected. Bigger cups, more money – I got it.
I was wearing a jacket in the morning, but after the sun rose, it became very hot that I was sweating in a t-shirt. What a poor old man I was to have to walk for the long distance to our seats. And the sun was too strong and hurting my skin and eyes. We started watching free practice and qualify, but it was hard to see without sunglasses.
On that night, my face and eyes turned red and burnt just like after welding without a mask, and nobody believed me I wasn’t drinking.
The qualify was under that much of strong sun, but it was so spectacular that I couldn’t even stand up on my feet. From our seats, we could see 70 to 80% of the whole circuit and 30 % of them were right in front of us. It was so different from Motegi circuit. I could feel the intensity of each rider’s passion and spirits aiming only for his win.
I didn’t understand what the circuit announcer was saying, but his emotional and dramatic descriptions of the race united all the audience. Watching the world’s best riders in that atmosphere – we were in the place where language didn’t matter. We felt it with our senses and hearts.
The qualify, as you know, went very well.
We got back to the pit box as soon as it was over because we were about to attend a press release to give a presentation about MORIWAKI CUP with MD250 in Spain starting next year.
We knew the administration wanted Midori to be there, but her schedule was already so many things packed in for every minute. Well, we shouldn’t have been worried because we were real Moriwaki workers, but it wasn’t that easy.
After the presentation, it was a dinnertime and we walked towards Gresini restaurant(?). Various events were going on around there.
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MORIWAKI moto2 champion HOODY is on sale.
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We arrived at a hotel and were about to have the very important moment – my 4 days could fully depend on this rooming situation.
I’m a laid back guy, but rooming with someone isn’t my favorite thing. But that was unnecessary concern. Thanks to Midori’s consideration and everyone else being so nice, I got to have a twin room for myself (I act like a weak old man only in this kind of situation.) A non-smoking room wasn’t where I usually belonged, though.
I had a relaxing night and woke up at 6 am, but there was no one I knew around the restaurant. It was packed with Ducati and Pramac mechanics. Riders were staying at the motor home in the circuit and mechanics stayed at the hotels. I felt strange because it is opposite in Japan, but I soon understood the reason when I got to the circuit.
I had some cigarettes as I was waiting for the Moriwaki group, and we all ate breakfast together. I had a hard time eating unusually hard French bread, and tried to work the coffee machine. I copied what the person in front of me was doing but it didn’t work. After all I got frustrated and called Midori at loud for help. She taught me how to make it as I liked but I wasn’t trying to remember. I got my coffee, and now lets go to the circuit, shall we?
I got on the car which Midori and the mechanics were on. Everyone looked at me and asked why I wasn’t on the other car. I said, “Duh, you guys are used to driving here and know the directions. The people in the other car have no idea where they are. I chose to be here because I want to go to the circuit.” We all laughed and headed to the circuit.
A mechanic K drove slowly so the other car can follow us, but they looked very anxious to drive on the other side of the road for the first time. I looked back at them and secretly had my evil smile. I was so proud of my great decision making skill.
We drove on the free way for about ten minutes and the circuit was right there. It was also strange that we drove through the circuit gate smoothly. In Japan, security checks every single car and cause a huge traffic jam around the parking gate. Here, they would scream at us for stopping.
After we parked, the securities checked our passes with a little thing at the gate.
I was amazed to see behind the pit boxes.
Even 125cc teams had gigantic transporters and gorgeous hospitalities. I was looking around like a bumpkin interested in everything in my sight.
Our passes didn’t allow us to get through the next gate. And the next moment, Midori disappeared and came back with the highest grade passes. How does she do that always? I had no idea what was going on and we got to the Gresini hospitality.
It was enormous.
Two trailers were parked and they built this huge space in between.
Inside of the trailers were meeting rooms and reception rooms. They built this for every race and go around Europe… How many people are involved in all this?
When we went inside, the team cooks told us they served meals for guests first, and I felt like I was a VIP.
I found a beer from one of many fridges there and started drinking without permission. The beer tasted especially good in the morning.
I felt so comfortable and wanted to stay a little longer, but everyone rushed me to go see the free practice so I got up to walk to the track. I wanted to check out the motor homes too, though.
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The first ever Moto2 World Champion Toni Elias sent us a very thoughtful gift!
It is a helmet with a Moriwaki logo, a Japanese flag, and Tomizawa’s number 48, and he wore it for Japan GP.
The message from Toni Elias:
“Thank you for all your work.
It has been a pleasure to be a part of Moriwaki family.”
It has been an honor to work with him throughout this year and win the championship.
It is sad to see him leave the Moto 2 class, but we are very happy and proud that he returns to the Moto GP class after the performance with MD600.
Next year, Yuki Takahashi will take Toni’s spot in the team and aim for the championship.
The combination of a Japanese rider and a Japanese machine is going to face the new challenge.
Thank you for your support for MD600. It makes all the difference.
