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Event review - Gran Premio De España 2025
An unforgettable weekend under the Andalusian sun!
Perfect weather at a perfect venue, climaxed by one of the best race results in our history!
The weekend was about following the first event of the year for the Red Bull Rookies and our two sponsored rookies, Kristian Daniel from USA and Carter Thompson from Australia. They joined us Friday night for dinner and - spoiler alert - rewarded our support with a sensation double podium Sunday! We take them to a top dinner Sunday night to celebrate!
We started Thursday on the usual note - a welcome drink our lovely base - the Sherry Park. We have been coming here now since 2006, making this our 20th year at this brilliant hotel!
Most of us then headed to Gordon's favourite tapas restaurant nearby where we enjoyed seemingly endless dishes, beer, wine and an impromptu sherry tasting!
Friday was the first of three perfect days at the track. We had guests of our usual teams - Moto3 team MLav Racing and MotoGP team Gresini Racing.
However our focus was on the introduction of our new Moto2 partner Aspar CFMoto! By lunchtime our debut Aspar guests had enjoyed coffee in the hospitality, spent the first Moto2 session in the garage, spent the MotoGP session on the service road (Alex crashed in front of us - thankfully he was fine) and enjoyed a brilliant lunch!
Friday night we did our first joint event with our friends at the Paddock Pass Podcast. Following dinner (and unlimited wine & beer!) Neil Morrison, Adam Wheeler and David Emmett did a live chat, covering a gamut of topics from some of the most veteran journalists in MotoGP. Adam launched his new book of inside stories of MotoGP - the few copies he brought with him didn't last long!
We also introduced the rookies Kristian and Carter - who may actually have gotten more questions than the journos! It was a great evening!
We did a raw video of the event - see <a href="ppt.gp/pppjerez25" rel="noreferrer nofollow">ppt.gp/pppjerez25</a>
Saturday was Sprint day. A bit of a standard result, with Marc Marquez winning from Alex and Pecco Bagnaia. Most guests return to the hotel and enjoyed their own programme with some taking advantage of the great deal from the hotel's independent restaurant.
A small group of team guests stayed at the track for our famous MotoGP Night. At Jerez we featured an intimate chat with ace Spanish journalist Manuel Pecino, who shared insights and experiences from his 35+ years in the MotoGP paddock. Some delightful Chinese guests of ours were huge fans of Alberto Puig, and were fascinated to learn many details of his earlier days!
After a typically super dinner, Gresini had a small celebration of Alex Marquez's birthday which we were honoured to be present for!
Sunday was one of the most remarkable race days in our history. The morning opened with Red Bull Rookies race 2. Our riders Kristian and Carter were battling in the top group for the entire race, with Carter taking the lead at one point. However our hopes were dashed when Carter was penalised with a long lap penalty - normally a sure ticket to the middle of the pack in the hugely competitive rookies class.
However he sensationally pushed his way back to the top group and in the final sector overtook the leader Danish to snatch the win! And to put the cherry on top, Kristian won the battle for third, putting BOTH of our riders on the podium -- something that has not happened in our 21 year history!
After forgettable Moto3 and Moto2 races (where our Moto3 riders crashed or scored 0 points, and the Aspar riders - doing veru well over the weekend - unfortunately crashed into each other) the MotoGP race finally saw the breaking of the victory duck for Alex Marquez! Not only winning the race, he took over the championship lead, and we and our Gresini guests had the honour of joining the podium ceremony!
After the great day of racing we made our way home; not forgetting to announce the results of our 'Lucky 7' game - which had a sole winner!
A group of us went to dinner at our favourite top Spanish restaurant La Carbona where we enjoyed amazing food, wine, beer, and of course a sampling of sherries and a couple of tip top Jerez brandies! We were joined by our victorious rookies, for a great opportunity to congratulate them properly!
What a weekend! I am so happy we return in in the autumn for Superbikes!
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